Architecture of strangeness: government building in Santiago, Avenida de las americas.
Giant hood ornament; these guys were unloading something from their truck and this beast seemed very eye-catching.
Later I wondered what it was like in those buildings - they had to be ten storeys or more - did they have elevators? Power failures are quite common in that country.
La Gran Piedra - actually a rock on top of a mountain outside Santiago de Cuba. Down on that sunny coast I did stay for a couple of days at Playa Siboney. 1500m up the air is cool and fresh.
It was the one time I wished I'd had a bike as the road up is an epic climb by any measure, complete with a huge collapse at one point with half the tarmac missing. Even descending by car takes about thirty minutes. At the summit is the oddity of the Big Rock, a big bald boulder on top.
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