December 27, 2011 @ Vinales, Cuba
Tasty homemade breakfast
Kitty & car
Some kind of fruit, pig food only
Lots of colorful flowers
Pretty flowers
Christmas flower like
Scratch, scratch
Windows desktop photo
OX Cart
Viņales is a beautiful and lush valley in Pinar del Rio province
Pretty flowers
Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999
What are they digging?
Tobacco leaf
The farmers here grow the best tobacco in the world
Another OX Cart
OX
Hen and babies
Baby chicken
Rooster vs turkey
Fight
Turkey are quite pretty
Male turkeys spread their tail feathers (just like peacock)
These are wild turkey as they have dark feathers
Our local Vinales tour guide
Kitchen of a local tobacco farm kitchen
Stove
Coffee maker
Water filter
Water filter
Tobacco seed
Cuban cigar -- making of
Cuban cigar -- making of
Cuban cigar -- making of
Cuban cigar -- making of
Time for a tasting
Pretty flowers
FF giving Cuban cigar a try as well
Kitty & FF
Me & FF
Tobacco farm
Tobacco farm
Barn where tobacco leaf are dried
Our tour guide Osvaldo
Kitty
Caris & Kitty
OX sledding?
Coco decoration
Me & Kitty
The coconut meat are very tasty
Vinales is one of the only places where Cubans seem happy
The mountains are called mogotes, which means *haystacks*
Many mogotes have caves
Some fruit
Wild pineapple
Vinales valley
Pig
Goat
Vinales valley
Vinales valley
Beautiful flowers
Beautiful flowers
Central Plaza @ Vinales
Shops around the Central Plaza
Pizza for 10/15 peso (1 USD = 20 peso)
2 pesos ice cream
Order-to-made pizza
Ham, onion & cheese pizza
Our homestay
Slippery
Cuevas del Indio
Named for the Indian remains found inside
The cave is 4km long, only the first km can be explored by foot
Kitty
Me
The mesmerizing catacomb
Underground pier where a motorized boat took us up to the subterranean
Habitat for opaque fish and blind crustaceans
This cave is well-developed for tourists
Kitty, Kenneth & Berton
Leaving the cave
Who would imagine this gap leads to a wonderful cave?
Tortoises
Buffalo
Huge asshole haha
3D postcard
Evening horse riding
Beautiful scenery
Dominating the valley of Vinales are the dramatic mogotes
Farms
Mogotes are pin-cushion hills
Vinales Valley
Sunset @ Vinales Valley
Kitty
Berton, Kenneth, Kitty, Me & Raudel*s mom
Kitty, Me, Raudel & his mom
Raudel*s mom is a good cook
Chicken
Big lobster
Kitty getting a light for the cigar
More cigar tasting
Vinales Valley
Vinales Valley
Tasty homemade breakfast
Kitty & car
Some kind of fruit, pig food only
Lots of colorful flowers
Pretty flowers
Christmas flower like
Scratch, scratch
Windows desktop photo
OX Cart
Viņales is a beautiful and lush valley in Pinar del Rio province
Pretty flowers
Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999
What are they digging?
Tobacco leaf
The farmers here grow the best tobacco in the world
Another OX Cart
OX
Hen and babies
Baby chicken
Rooster vs turkey
Fight
Turkey are quite pretty
Male turkeys spread their tail feathers (just like peacock)
These are wild turkey as they have dark feathers
Our local Vinales tour guide
Kitchen of a local tobacco farm kitchen
Stove
Coffee maker
Water filter
Water filter
Tobacco seed
Cuban cigar -- making of
Cuban cigar -- making of
Cuban cigar -- making of
Cuban cigar -- making of
Time for a tasting
Pretty flowers
FF giving Cuban cigar a try as well
Kitty & FF
Me & FF
Tobacco farm
Tobacco farm
Barn where tobacco leaf are dried
Our tour guide Osvaldo
Kitty
Caris & Kitty
OX sledding?
Coco decoration
Me & Kitty
The coconut meat are very tasty
Vinales is one of the only places where Cubans seem happy
The mountains are called mogotes, which means *haystacks*
Many mogotes have caves
Some fruit
Wild pineapple
Vinales valley
Pig
Goat
Vinales valley
Vinales valley
Beautiful flowers
Beautiful flowers
Central Plaza @ Vinales
Shops around the Central Plaza
Pizza for 10/15 peso (1 USD = 20 peso)
2 pesos ice cream
Order-to-made pizza
Ham, onion & cheese pizza
Our homestay
Slippery
Cuevas del Indio
Named for the Indian remains found inside
The cave is 4km long, only the first km can be explored by foot
Kitty
Me
The mesmerizing catacomb
Underground pier where a motorized boat took us up to the subterranean
Habitat for opaque fish and blind crustaceans
This cave is well-developed for tourists
Kitty, Kenneth & Berton
Leaving the cave
Who would imagine this gap leads to a wonderful cave?
Tortoises
Buffalo
Huge asshole haha
3D postcard
Evening horse riding
Beautiful scenery
Dominating the valley of Vinales are the dramatic mogotes
Farms
Mogotes are pin-cushion hills
Vinales Valley
Sunset @ Vinales Valley
Kitty
Berton, Kenneth, Kitty, Me & Raudel*s mom
Kitty, Me, Raudel & his mom
Raudel*s mom is a good cook
Chicken
Big lobster
Kitty getting a light for the cigar
More cigar tasting