Cuba 6

We head back into Trinidad for our last couple of nights, we have figured out where to get the best coffee by now and the best Cuba libras. We found an amazing colonial style house to stay in. Again we are treated with special hospitality and incredible foods. It is from here that we take our horse trekking adventure. Neither of us can ride and I think 5 hours was a little too much. It took nearly a month for the saddle sores to heal. Regardless of that we had a wonderful day. We were taken to a sugar cane farm and got to sample the juice which is made by putting the can through a mangle to extract the juice which is incredibly sweet. Adding lemon juice to it makes it more palatable. (I would imagine that a couple of shots of rum would make it good too).

The canes are then given to the pigs to eat, nothing is wasted here. And it explains why the pork tastes so good. We head off again into the wild blue yonder and eventually get to another natural spring fed water fall. It’s a great place to cool off. We stop for lunch on the way back at another shanty style hut in the middle of nowhere before heading back to town. Hot, dusty and walking like John Wayne for several hours afterwards.