26 of July

Day 5

Today, we went to Havana city.
Little did we know that the cuban people have special day today.
When we got to the city we saw cuban flags everywhere, we didn't know what was going on so we asked some locals. Today was 26 of july, at this date, Fidel Castro took over the country. Everybody was celebrating and having a good time, somebody even gave us some cigars! but either of us did smoke. We went to the famous Cuban beach promenade, and we ate som great food. Leif wanted to try smoking the cigar we got, but ended up coughing. We paid around 300 pesos for the food.
When we were done eating, we decided to go to the famous church Cathedral de San Cristóbal, it is said that Cristoffer Columbus lies here. it had many beatifull sculptures. After we were done there we ate lunch at resturant that only makes Cuban food. Cuban people love pork, and it is typical to mix it with rice, fried bananas and beans. It sounded good, so we tried it. Well, the food was amazing.
After the meal and the long trip to the church and back, we were absolutely to tired to do anything else than to sleep. We went back to our hotel, but it was hard to sleep, because every cuban was celebrating 26 of july.

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