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  Cuba 2012 - Part 1 - Old Havana - memories of Cuba as it used to be


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Old Havana

Old Havana

Old Havana

Old Havana

Old Havana

Old Havana


  La Bodegita del Medio - famous bar for tourists. This is the bar where mojito drink was invented.

La Bodegita del Medio

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La Bodegita del Medio

La Bodegita del Medio

Copy of US Capitol in Cuba

Old Havana

Tobacco factory in Old Havana.

Old Havana

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Old Havana

Tourists are often offered cigars by individuals on the street. Here it was  just next to the tobacco factory. The price for e.g. box of Cohiba Esplendidos is about e.g. 50 usd/cus, real bargain. But one never knows if they are originals (that oficially sell even in Cuba for 600 usd/cuc for box) stolen from state factory or better of worse imitations. But it is worth to try if for such price. Anyway in local cuban half empty shops, one can buy local paper box of 25 smaller cigars that Cubans smoke for about 1 usd/cuc per box - this is possibly the best bargain for cigars one can get anywhere in the world.

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The result of slow start of private shops in Cuba are stalls like this, here just the enrance to some house. Sometimes is it is in window to some aparment on the street level. 

Here coffee is serven for 1 local peso (about 0.1 usd/cuc).

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Coffee served for locals on the street privately.

Private grocery stall

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People of Old Havana - here woman dressed in white in order to become saint? in local santerism religion.

People of Old Havana - seller of ice cream

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Local bar (all bars are run by state unfortunatelly) where prices are in local pesos.

In the local  bar

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In the local  bar

Employee of the local bar

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Streets of Old Havana - old cars are not just taxis or for turists here, they are very common as Cubans don't good access to anything newer.

Streets of Old Havana

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Old Havana

Old Havana

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Old Havana

Old Havana

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Old Havana

Old Havana

Old Havana

Old Havana

Old Havana - view from Camara Oscura building

Old Havana - view from Camara Oscura building

In front of old Havana Stock Exchange (Bolsa de la Habana) building

People of Havana

Old Havana
 

Young girl in Old Havana

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Old Havana

In the park with ice cream stalls where the movie Strawbery and Chocolate started. Cubans needed to wait in queues even even just to get to the park (and then another for the ice cream).

Foreigners could buy overpriced and not very good icecream without queues of course. Although there is poster for movie Fresa y Chocolate visible here, they did not have strawbery ice cream (that gays used to take in that famous movie).

This waiter looks a bit like young Sylvester Stalone. Would he take strawbery or chocolate ice cream?

Cars of Cuba

Cars of Cuba

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Cars of Cuba

Cars of Cuba

 

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