Monday 17 December 2007

Day 12

We are still in Soroa in the fancy hotel; today's plan is to walk up to the top of the hill to a nice viewpoint. This will be followed by the now common waterfall where as you as usual was give it a go to the cold water. I sincerely didn't mind the programme as after days and days of eating restaurant food three times a day I have the need to burn some calories. The walk up was rather thought, but the funny thing is that half the way and at the top there were a couple of guys selling fruit and souvenirs. The scenario from the top was stunning well worth the walk. Once back at street level it was time to approach the river, but just in from of us a long column of tourists heading to the same direction. Even if uninspired we went and the waterfalls were beautiful but the number of tourists spoiled the whole thing.

Before leaving for Pinar del Rio we had time for a swim in the pool and having a shower, very relaxing after the long morning.

After a short trip we got to this town, which as highlight had a pizzeria with a decent pizza. Everything else was not extremely pleasant, the busy road with a lot of car smoke, the majority of buildings where derelicts - including the local university. People seemed to be nice and not too used to tourism, guess why!

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