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