Colonial Trinidad & Cayo Coco

Trip Start Mar 06, 2009

Trip End Mar 06, 2010

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Flag of Cuba Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
Friday, May 15, 2009

Trinidad is another of UNESCO declared heritage sites in Cuba. The whole town still carries the colonial feel, with brightly coloured buildings and cobbled streets. We spent the first day drinking potent cocktail which is made from honey, rum, lemon and water with some fellow Aussies. It ended rather pear shaped with cigars being smoked and lots of mucho mucho with a local band. Needless to we didn't achieve much sightseeing that day apart from sobering up in the square that evening and watching the locals goad the tourists onto the square for some salsa-ing to a live band. We stayed in a another mecca for food Casa particular and for all of $10 we received a 3 course dinner with lobsters the size of footballs. Ater looking round the town for a few days we headed to Cayo Coco for our "all inclusive" indulgence.
Cayo Coco did not turn out to be the cultural experience we had gotten used to in the rest of Cuba. Going from only speaking Spanish to speaking Spanish and being answered back in English, menus all in English, you'd have never guess you were in Cuba. However, having said that there are some benefits for being locked away on a private beach with swimming pools... "All you can eat food, all you can eat snack food, all the Pina Coladas you can drink and sing about and a very very comfortable bed as long as you can put up with the chavs from their chavvy cities, who believe and we quote "traveling is only for hippies who don't wash, don't work and sit around all day braiding each other's hair." For $100 you get a lavish apartment and all of the above. It's a good deal for the outsiders but after traveling through Cuba, even after bingeing on everything on offer, elsewhere $100 would last several days. Like we said, it was an indulgence.

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