February 23, 2009 was another gorgeous day and another great opportunity for more explorations of the city of Santiago de Cuba. Early, at 7:30 am, we took the hotel workers bus’ into town again and spent an hour riding into Cuba’s second largest town, all in the air-conditioned comfort of a modern Chinese built bus. An hour later we had arrived near the centre of the city and went for a short walk to the Parque Cespedes, Santiago’s main square. One of the main sights on this square is the Hotel Casa Granda, a stately hotel built in the early 1920s. I had read that there was a great rooftop terrace on this hotel so we walked inside to find the elevator. A local by the name of Carlos joined us right away and provided us with all sorts of unsolicited tourist information in broken English. He started to show us around without asking, one of Cuba’s many “independent travel entrepreneurs” (also called “jinetero”). When we left the hotel, Carlos kept following us and feeding us information about various local attractions, and finally led us to a local “paladar”, a privately owned licensed restaurant (one of the few private enterprises that Cuba allows), and we sat down to have a breakfast. The meal was tasty and affordable. After a filling early morning meal we continued our walk and Carlos showed us one of the more popular sights in Santiago: the Escaleras de Padre Pico, a stairway of 52 steps that was built in 1899 under mayor Emilio Bacardi. These stairs are the entranceway …
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Kiss ur hand 10 times.
Say ur crushes name 15 times.
Post this on two different videos.
Look at ur hand.
Now this is what I like to see. Un mercado verdadero
extrano a Cuba todo los dias hope to eventually go back (yn)
pause the video at 4.18, why is there a freemason sign by the woman in the red dress its a green sign did anybody else notice this except for me??
Never been there, at least that I remember I used to live for a little while with my late Grandmother in Guantanamo. i was surprised to find now there are 20 provices when I left there were only six.
viva cuba es la isla mas bella que yo e visto estube en la havana la mejor de las esperienia k tuve….. k viva cuba.
Que fea es Cuba
Cuba need’s a lot of Home depot and rebuild the entire country it’s all destroyed.
fuck wall-mart and its chinese junks ..I like local markets ..Viva Cuba !
cuidaito ahi vive mi hermano y mi primo y surrupia o no respeta
@baller2705712 it is… but that is the good part, you dont sit around and watch TV and be on the computar all day.
Hay que mejorar el aspecto del mercado popular, sobretodo, del area de las carnes.
Hey man I cant believe how this guide introduce all this tourists to los cangrejitos, this is one of the most dangerous places in santiago de cuba. jajajaja. But i like this vid.
This reminded me of the markets in the Philippines. They brought in the fish and seafood at 6:00 in the morning and by 10:00 it was all sold. They had huge prawns which were wonderful and the crabs were still walking around in big tubs. The variety of vegetables was amazing to me and I learned to enjoy fruit I had never seen before such as breadfruit, etc. The variety of utensils made of metal and of bamboo were infinite. Where else could you get nice fabric for 30 to 50 cents per yard??
Este el barrio los cangrejitos, cerca de la Alameda.
tantos recuerdos. Alli fui con mi amigo Alciviadis y su familia. Pero algunos anos antes y como veo ahora hay mas cosas. El carne esta bien porque esta fresco. NO hay problemas.
Los Cangrejitos fue siempre barrio surrupia…
Actually, the correct date is February 23, 2009, not 2003. Exploring Santiago de Cuba off the beaten track was a very interesting experience. Must be even more interesting to be there during Carnaval!
What nostalgia this gives! I have been there many times, even during the carnaval and in the neigborhood of Trocha.
At the beginning you say “February 23, 2003″ but in the data for the clip, it says 2009! What year was it?
O Pick Pockets “lol” by your own design