Santa Clara

The next city on my trip around Cuba was Santa Clara, and it was a relief to get out of La Habana. The city is not that big, and it seems to be very easy to find your way around and the people there seemed to be more “normal” and tranquilo. The family I ended up at was not very nice though. All they talked about was how expensive everything was in Cuba, and how bad everything was. And after just ½ an hour I was really sick of hearing about that. Because maybe life is not easy in Cuba, but it is hard everywhere, and if you compare the lives that people have here in Cuba with other countries in South America it is damn good her, because everyone gets a certain amount of food from the government, and everyone has a house of some sort, that is definitely not the case in the other countries that I have visited on my trip.

But besides the family I had a great time in Santa Clara. I went to see the statue and memorial of Che, and it was beautiful. It is a huge statue of Che, and underneath there is a memorial to some of the other people who died during the revolution and a flame that is in honor of Che. Next to the memorial there is a museum about Che and his life with different objects from Che’s life. All in all a very good experience.