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This second journey story of a group of Indonesian journalists to Havana, Cuba. The first took place in the spring, April 2000 for four days. The second was for three days in the summer, September 2006.
International airport of Havana, Jose Marti, such as length dark blue box. Jose Marti is Cuba's national hero. He is a politician, journalist, and author of poetry. Born in Havana in 1853 and died in battle with Spanish troops in 1895, the famous words, "The struggle is not with the physical independence, but an intelligent cultural development."
In the second trip, September 2006, the heat, the doors of arrival at Jose Marti Airport guarded five young women in blue uniforms and blue. There are jet black, red, white, and yellow. They are part of the colorful 11.3 million residents of Cuba. They use the Spanish language. Friendly and not too tight checking entrants.
Issues of race in Cuba is not prominent. At the edges of highways blacks can be seen hugging and kissing with whites. This scene is very rare in the United States or Western Europe.
On the way from the airport to downtown Havana, occasionally there are people standing on the edge of the road waving for a ride. Every car here is a common vehicle, anyone can ride. This part of the ordinary things in this country since Fidel Castro proclaimed communism in 1961. Only artists and sportsmen who allowed the government to have a personal vehicle. So, many Cubans who try to become singers, dancers, or other art workers.
This second journey story of a group of Indonesian journalists to Havana, Cuba. The first took place in the spring, April 2000 for four days. The second was for three days in the summer, September 2006.
International airport of Havana, Jose Marti, such as length dark blue box. Jose Marti is Cuba's national hero. He is a politician, journalist, and author of poetry. Born in Havana in 1853 and died in battle with Spanish troops in 1895, the famous words, "The struggle is not with the physical independence, but an intelligent cultural development."
In the second trip, September 2006, the heat, the doors of arrival at Jose Marti Airport guarded five young women in blue uniforms and blue. There are jet black, red, white, and yellow. They are part of the colorful 11.3 million residents of Cuba. They use the Spanish language. Friendly and not too tight checking entrants.
Issues of race in Cuba is not prominent. At the edges of highways blacks can be seen hugging and kissing with whites. This scene is very rare in the United States or Western Europe.
On the way from the airport to downtown Havana, occasionally there are people standing on the edge of the road waving for a ride. Every car here is a common vehicle, anyone can ride. This part of the ordinary things in this country since Fidel Castro proclaimed communism in 1961. Only artists and sportsmen who allowed the government to have a personal vehicle. So, many Cubans who try to become singers, dancers, or other art workers.
Consists of Havana New Havana and Old Havana (Old Havana or Habana Vieja la). Old Havana declared a world heritage site by the United Nations in 1978.
In the second trip when staying at hotels in Havana New, no longer exist people with the uniform hotel employee who suddenly knocked on the door and asked for one dollar.
In 2000 the major hotels in Havana, not all have a sophisticated restaurant or place to eat. For dining outside the room, guests eat in the hotel dining hall together as in boarding school or military academy.
In that room there are a number of long table with rows of seats. There, the guests lined-row meal. To get the red-guava juice kelutuk have to queue long. Guava juice was made in a very manually by employees / employee hotel. In 2006, something like that no longer exist in four-star hotels or five.
In Old Havana, was a row of apartment residents and side by side with old buildings built in Spanish colonial times. Almost all offices of government officials in the region.
Every day in this area milling tourists from all over the world. The number of tourists coming to Cuba in 2005 about 2.3 million people (almost equal to the population of Havana). In 2001 foreign tourists who come around 1.77 million people.
Business foreign tourists contributed about 41 percent of state revenues. Importation into the country in tourism field has been set aside revenues from exports of sugar, tobacco, and cigars.
In New Havana and Old Havana there is remains the same. Dozens of parks and urban forest with lush trees (many who have lived many years) are not disturbed the government.
A friend who was enjoying views of the gardens and forests from the window of his hotel room suddenly shouted, "Hai-hai-hai, see there are many young couples who are having sex."
Roads in both new and old Havana rare kemacaetan traffic. Nor ever heard a car siren escort of state officials. In fact, Castro was rarely out of the residence or palace with such escort. In Havana, Fidel Castro's images rarely found in public places. He said he did not want dikultusindividukan as leaders in Pyongyang, North Korea.
In one section of coast in Havana against the highway and the concrete wall. Concrete wall can be to walk or jog. From the beach it can be seen the ancient fortress of the Spanish colonial period, Castillo del Morro de La Habana.
Near the castle there is a simple restaurant. There were musical groups and singers Havana Soul. They sing and dance without the speakers. Music groups like it very much in Cuba. They not only singing, but also sell VCDs or tapes they recorded.
While some sports journalists Indonesia jog, they burst into laughter. At the edge of the beach road was littered with condom-looking former kodom recently used.
Not far from where it is a stage overlooking the coast of Florida in the United States. At certain moments, in that place people berate government leaders addressing the United States. It also shows the national routine.
In the second trip when staying at hotels in Havana New, no longer exist people with the uniform hotel employee who suddenly knocked on the door and asked for one dollar.
In 2000 the major hotels in Havana, not all have a sophisticated restaurant or place to eat. For dining outside the room, guests eat in the hotel dining hall together as in boarding school or military academy.
In that room there are a number of long table with rows of seats. There, the guests lined-row meal. To get the red-guava juice kelutuk have to queue long. Guava juice was made in a very manually by employees / employee hotel. In 2006, something like that no longer exist in four-star hotels or five.
In Old Havana, was a row of apartment residents and side by side with old buildings built in Spanish colonial times. Almost all offices of government officials in the region.
Every day in this area milling tourists from all over the world. The number of tourists coming to Cuba in 2005 about 2.3 million people (almost equal to the population of Havana). In 2001 foreign tourists who come around 1.77 million people.
Business foreign tourists contributed about 41 percent of state revenues. Importation into the country in tourism field has been set aside revenues from exports of sugar, tobacco, and cigars.
In New Havana and Old Havana there is remains the same. Dozens of parks and urban forest with lush trees (many who have lived many years) are not disturbed the government.
A friend who was enjoying views of the gardens and forests from the window of his hotel room suddenly shouted, "Hai-hai-hai, see there are many young couples who are having sex."
Roads in both new and old Havana rare kemacaetan traffic. Nor ever heard a car siren escort of state officials. In fact, Castro was rarely out of the residence or palace with such escort. In Havana, Fidel Castro's images rarely found in public places. He said he did not want dikultusindividukan as leaders in Pyongyang, North Korea.
In one section of coast in Havana against the highway and the concrete wall. Concrete wall can be to walk or jog. From the beach it can be seen the ancient fortress of the Spanish colonial period, Castillo del Morro de La Habana.
Near the castle there is a simple restaurant. There were musical groups and singers Havana Soul. They sing and dance without the speakers. Music groups like it very much in Cuba. They not only singing, but also sell VCDs or tapes they recorded.
While some sports journalists Indonesia jog, they burst into laughter. At the edge of the beach road was littered with condom-looking former kodom recently used.
Not far from where it is a stage overlooking the coast of Florida in the United States. At certain moments, in that place people berate government leaders addressing the United States. It also shows the national routine.
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