I was surprised to see so many police along the road side. Our guide said it was normal.
He was stopping everyone...
Some buildings along the way. Our guide pointed out a boarding school which looked like a barn that was about the fall down.
Orange groves but the region grows guava, mangoes, and bananas.
Houses along the way
Life here can't be easy.
Dogs on the roof watching us. There were quite a few houses like this with dogs on top. The tank on the left side is a water tank and some are heated by the sun.
Sugar cane growing along the side of the road.
A new sign for my collection!
A tourist area for Cuba. The hotel below was an all inclusive hotel.
We are here for some R & R and some lectures for the kids that needed to complete their research.
One lecture was about maternity. Every pregnant woman has her baby in the hospital. There are no Midwifes here. Also you go to a maternity home at 37 weeks to wait until you give birth. The mom gets a year maternity leave.
Some cute things we saw. The above picture shows sugar cane in a glass. This is for your coffee or tea. Below is a sculpture of a mouse carved out of butter. They had a cat and some other ones too.
A huge buffet here.
The three amigos walking the beach. We had a red flag so we couldn't go swimming - too rough and too dangerous. I was so looking forward to going in.
We came back to Havana only to find they had done something again with our reservations. As I said before we arrived at 11 hotels but didn't stayed in all of them. We were moved on. So tonight we hit the jackpot!! a 5 star hotel and it was. YEA! It was so nice.
We forgot to educate about the mini bar in the rooms...
Unfortunately one poor sole discovered how much it costs. :-(
This morning we took advantage of talking about all our experiences and what we would recommend for changes. The group had some great suggestions and overall had a wonderful time.
One of the suggestion would be to stay in homes instead of hotels. Hire a tourist guide that would give us more information as to where we were going and what we were seeing. - ahead of time.
I felt like I was in the dark most of time.
Sharon our director did a great job. I felt badly for her as everything was changing at the moment. The night we stayed in this hotel was because there was no place else to stay, especially trying at 7:30 at night when we arrived in town. She had many obstacles to overcome.
The views from our hotel room.
I would have loved to swim in the pool but it was pouring rain. I was impressed with the bar seats in the pool. I want one of those!
Views of Havana and the Lobby of the hotel below.
This is our last full day and night in Cuba.
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