Cuba

An unforgettable experience visiting the island of Cuba on a Road Scholar photographic tour with a people to people connection. Please feel free to comment on the photos and add place names if you have them!
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Colon Cemetery is one of the great historical cemeteries of the world. A place of internment, empty graves, miracles, and history.
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Colon Cemetery is one of the great historical cemeteries of the world. A place of internment, empty graves, miracles, and history.

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  • I spent some time in the pool photographing the surroundings. The pool at the Melia Habana is said to be the largest in the country.
  • I spent some time in the pool photographing the surroundings. The pool at the Melia Habana is said to be the largest in the country.
  • I spent some time in the pool photographing the surroundings. The pool at the Melia Habana is said to be the largest in the country.
  • I spent some time in the pool photographing the surroundings. The pool at the Melia Habana is said to be the largest in the country.
  • Started to look a bit like Christmas at the hotel finally!
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  • The Cuban Diet Cola
  • Complimentary after-dinner drink (I didn't have it but I think it was brandy or cognac)
  • We were all offered a complimentary fine Cuban after-dinner cigar. (I didn't partake :) )
  • Typical toilet view...no seat but this one DID have toilet paper!
  • Colon Cemetery is one of the great historical cemeteries of the world. A place of internment, empty graves, miracles, and history.
  • Established in 1876, the Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón was named after Christopher Columbus and designed by a Madrid-educated Galician architect by the name of Calixto Arellano de Loira y Cardoso. Built around Central Chapel, the 150-acre cemetery is laid out in a grid of main central avenues and smaller side streets. As planned by Loira, the layout organizes the occupants of the cemetery according to their rank and social status, with the wealthy and well-connected occupying prominent spots on main thoroughfares while more lowly individuals (such as the condemned, victims of epidemics, and “pagans”) are relegated to the “suburbs.”
  • Space in the Colon Cemetery is currently at a premium and as such after two years, remains are removed from their tombs, boxed and placed in a storage building.
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