Friday, June 25, 2010

The next day we had planned to get up early and head to central Havana by car, by an old American car in particular, if we were going to ride one might as well as used it for transport rather than just aimlessly driving around. Frank and myself went to Iona's hotel to pick her up and go on our way, we went there and she wasn't ready yet so we played some cards in the hotels lobby. She emerged after eating some breakfast and we left. It took us about five minutes or so before we were picked up by a suitable looking car, it wasn't perfect but would do, waiting for the perfect car could ave taken forever. The car was massive inside, the biggest car I have ever been in and might ever be in, you could fit about two minis inside this car. The ride wasn't the most comfortable but what do you expect having sixty year old suspension and really bad roads. Central Havana was quite different to old Havana, it was just as run down but there weren't as many big building, it was more a mix of residential houses and big office style buildings with the occasional church. On the map, I marked down this place I wanted to go called the school of martiano studies, I thought it would be some really out there space thing but I was very disappointed when we arrived, it was a school for studies on Jose Marti, the original Cuban revolutionary. I knew it was too good to be true, I have no interest in aliens of anything extra terrestrial but though it would have been hilarious if there was something like that in Cuba but no. Off we went hanging our heads towards the cemetery, it was supposedly one of the largest in the world with around five million graves. When we got there we were in for a big surprise and not a good one at that. In the rough guide, it states that the entrance fee is around $1 CUC (I know it is a few years out of date but can a price really change that much?) the price was £5 CUC, it is one of the largest cemeteries in the world but still, I don't think that warrants a price tag of $5, if I had my way it would be free but oh well what can you do.

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