Entries from 'project 365'
Day 215
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/2000 s
- Focal Length: 28mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
While I was up half the night feeling the effects of heat stroke and hugging a toilet I firefly came into our room! It was pretty cool. I was so delirious from the heat stroke that I thought I was dreaming it at first. In the afternoon we caught our last freezing cold Viazul bus…
Day 214
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/500 s
- Focal Length: 18mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Last night I hired a bike from our taxi driver so I could ride around the valleys for my final day in Vinales. I visited most of the places we visited the day before in the taxi and went out to a big lake that I could see on the map. I ended up covering…
Day 213
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/320 s
- Focal Length: 20mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Our Taxi driver collected us at 10am and first took us out to Saint Thomas Cave, which is the biggest and most important cave system in Cuba and second most important in all of Latin America. St Thomas cave can only be entered with a guide as there are no set routes and no lighting…
Day 212
- Aperture: f/4
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/1250 s
- Focal Length: 18mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
We have somehow gained and extra day somewhere so decided today was a beach+ cigar + rum day. After a visit to the official rum/cigar store and picking up some guava rum and cigars we found a taxi to take us to Playa Jutia. At the beach we booked in a snorkelling trip which was…
Day 211
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/13 s
- Focal Length: 14mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Today we booked in a small 3 hour walking tour through the valleys of Vinales. We stopped in at a tobacco where we learned how the government takes 90 percent of their crops and they can to do whatever they wanted with the other 10 percent which included rolling us some cigars and selling some….
Day 210
- Aperture: f/5
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/125 s
- Focal Length: 70mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
We decided we needed to escape Varadero today. So we took the cleanest, newest bus in cuba from the most organised, newest and cleanest bus station to Havana. We are returning to Havana next week for 8 days so we wanted to continue on to the countryside in west called Vinales. Unfortunately the bus was…
Day 209
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/160 s
- Focal Length: 28mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Veradaro is a small oasis away from the chaos and confusion that is Cuba and is unfortunately where a huge chunk of tourists spend 100 percent of their time. Which means a huge chunk of people who go to Cuba, never actually go to Cuba. Veradaro is essentially one 10km narrow stretch of land which…
Day 208
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/1250 s
- Focal Length: 35mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
This morning we did the tour of the Cigar factory we had booked the day before. As with the other tour we were unsurprisingly given wrong information and found out that we were not allowed to take photos despite being told the complete opposite, and that there was no English speaking guide as advertised….
Day 207
- Aperture: f/6.3
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/500 s
- Focal Length: 16mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
I woke up feeling a bit better today and thankfully the morning went un-cubanly smoothly. In the first few hours I had my visa extended, deodorant and water purchased, internet surfed, casa particular booked and boat and cigar tours sorted. We explored Confieugos some more before taking a sunset boat tour which was supposed to…
Day 206
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 1/640 s
- Focal Length: 100mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 60D
This is only one of a couple of photos I snapped today. I took it near the bus station in Trinidad before we got on our bus to Cienfuegos. In Cienfuegos we only left our casa particular to take a short walk to the main historical centre to find a pay phone and buy…