The first thing you notice in Cienfuegos, Cuba is the straight lines. You come in off the road expecting the usual tangle of a Cuban town — narrow lanes, colonial walls leaning on each other, a plaza that grew where the streets happened to…
Baracoa Cuba: The road that finally connected Baracoa to the rest of Cuba is called La Farola, and it does not let you arrive gently. It climbs out of Guantánamo, hairpins up into the Sierra del Purial, and for a while there’s nothing on…