Santiago de Cuba

Typical Cuban bookshop, selling approved literature.
Originally uploaded by louise_parmenter

Santiago is the second largest city in Cuba and is 860km east of Havana. My first impressions were of suffocating heat and narrow exhaust-fume filled streets, but was soon smiling again with a live salsa show, a delicious ice cream and a wander around the fascinating old bookshops. But there was little to hold me in this town so I was soon on my way again to the tropical east coast of Cuba.

Here are a few photos of Santiago.

DISTANCE TRAVELLED (OVERLAND) SINCE USHUAIA: 35,450 KM