Habana, Habana and more Habana

When you wake up and look out of your window and all you see are Marabú (trees-shrubs with lots and lots of thorns), some palms, and more schools, you would agree that any form of civilization would be a welcome change.

At first us students here at ELAM 10 thought that the relatively nearby (=77km) city of Pinar del Río was adequate. It has a nice hotel that isn’t that expensive, has much better shops, some branded clothing, and different food. The chicken there is even available in more than one flavour (it’s always deep fried).
But then after a while, it started to get a bit boring, especially if you could only walk the main street, because the rest of the city is a dump. So we started fantasizing about La Habana.

I mean come on, were basically village people over here. We live next to a freaking farm. And all the teachers have been bitching about the maravillosidad of the capital. So we were like always horny to go to Habana, but never really had the time, until we just figured ´screw it´, you only live once.

So for the third time since I have been here, I went to La Capital. In all of its grandeur. It was even better this time. I stayed at a casa particular en Centro de Habana. We were like 14 blocks away from Chinatown. I also spent a lot of time at Parque Central, in front of the Capitolio. I know it doesn’t make much sense right now, but the pictures will bring more claridad into the whole situation.

Moving on, if you didn’t understand anything that was written in the previous part of this post, you will understand the descriptions of the pictures in the following posts.