The Secret Map
Travel Essays by Simon Slater
Category: Cuba
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I met Jewel, a spirited American from the state of Missouri, upon arrival at a cigar plantation in rural Vinales, a Cuban national park two hours from Havana. Although coming to Cuba with solo travel intentions, we gravitated towards a shared sense of humour and easy-going nature. We took horse rides, storm-soaked journeys on piece-of-shit…
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One good reason to travel far and wide is to distance yourself from whatever routine or culture you’ve alligned to and experience life anew. A trip to Cuba will undoubtedly provide this. During a stay in the instantly charming town of Trinidad – a crumbling, kaleidoscopic old-world town straight out of a Western (cowboys and…
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I met Saki and Aki, two students from Japan’s Kyoto University, a few days into a two-week trip to Cuba. We were buying ice-cold coconuts to sip in Old Havana during the midday Carribean scorch of late August and after a brief exchange, decided we’d spend the day together. Akiko’s heritage is half German, and…
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