Camilo Cienfuegos
Revolution Plaza Havana, Cuba On the Ministry of Ministry of Communications building is another line sculpture by Enrique Avila Gonzales.…
January 2015
Che Guevara, Korda and Gonzales
Plaza de Revolucion Havana, Cuba Plaza de la Revolución “Revolution Square” is one of the 13 largest outdoor plazas in…
Cuba in January 2015
Cuba has the most tightly controlled internet in the world. Their internet is characterized by a low number of connections,…
Miami/Santa Clara/Cienfuegos
January 16, 2015 The day started at 5:00 in the morning to get to the airport for the Cuban airport…
Cienfuegos/Trinidad
After a buffet breakfast we were bound for Trinidad. Before leaving town we headed to the local Mercado. It was…
Cuba-Topes De Collantes:Parque Codina
We were joined by a local guide Luise. Luise has a degree in journalism but is a fountain of information…
Cuba – Topes/Zapata Peninsula/Bay of Pigs
We began our day in the Zapata Swamp looking for the Emerald Hummingbird and the Bee Hummingbird. This was day…
Cuba Playa Larga/Soroa/Vinales
We had the privilege of a lecture from Frank Medina, director of the Zapata Park. This 5000 square kilometer Park…
El Caballero de Paris
This is one of my favorite public sculptures in Havana, and as you can see how the patina has been…
Cuba – Vinales/Soroa
Today was filled with those moments that just reek of the tourism that no one in this group wants, and…
Cuba Soroa/ Terrazas/Havana
The morning began with a tour of a Botanical Garden that specialized in Orchids. Our guide, Aliett Cecilia Diaz, was…
Cuba – Havana
The older portions of Havana are built on a system of squares. We hopped off the bus at the Malecon…
John Lennon in Cuba
Lennon Park Havana, Cuba In the John Lennon Park at 17th and 6th, is a sculpture of the former Beatles…
Benny Moré
Prado Promenade Cienfuegos, Cuba Benny Moré (Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez, 24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963), or Benny, was…
Yasser Arafat in Cuba
7th Avenida Havana, Cuba Havana, Cuba, Nov. 24 2012 In the words of its sculptor, Andres Gonzalez Gonzalez, the bust…
Cuba – Havana
The morning of Day 9 we started at the largest crafts market, a grouping of storage lockers inside a quonset…
The Cars of Cuba
Wow, I got to see the backseat of a ‘56 Chevy again. – William Madar So you have heard about…
A Small Sampling of Art in Cuba
Cienfuegos Our first people to people experience was in Cienfuegos. We had the pleasure of listening to a choral group…
The Buena Vista Social Club
Dancing in Cuba is spontaneous, and absolutely gorgeous. I am convinced the Cubans have an extra gene just for grace…
Hemingway and Cuba
I had the luxury of being given a tour of the grounds of Hemingway’s Cuban home by Deputy Director Isbel…
Tobacco Farming in Cuba
One of the best regions for growing tobacco in Cuba is the Pinar del Rio region which is where we…
Buddy Bears
Oh Cuba I Bearly Knew Ya….Bill United Buddy Bears is an art project to promote tolerance and understanding among nations,…