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When You Visit Cuba

Normal Sights Will Fascinate
Saturday, August 8th,  2015
        This week -- on August 7th -- The International Business Times featured thirty-one magnificent photos by famed photo-journalist Alexandre Meneghini with captions written by David Sim. The photos chronicle the lives of everyday Cubans this year. The one above depicts two retirees -- 78-year-old Ernesto Arias and 81-year-old Cerola Suarez, sitting under a photo of Fidel Castro as they watched U. S. President Barack Obama announce his intentions to normalize relations with Cuba. This was at a retirement home in Havana.
           This Alexandre Meneghini photo shows two-year-old Alexo Carmono engaged in a staring contest with a white pony named Coco. The pony is one of five that the Perez family in Havana rents out for rides to children like Alexo. The other 29 outstanding Meneghini photographs on the International Business Times website Friday also captured snapshots of everyday people living their lives on the island of Cuba.
         When I was in Cuba I was blown away by the truly unique beauty of Vinales Valley. This week the London-based The Guardian included this Alamy photo of Vinales Valley among a series of Cuban scenes. The contrasting colors from the brown soil to the top of the astounding mountains are truly stunning.
The Guardian also featured this bucolic David Myers/Alamy scene in Vinales Valley.
If you visit Cuba, make sure you drive southwest out of Havana to Vinales Valley.
{My favorite Cuban city was Trinidad on the south-central coast}
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