Our second stint in Havana was only a short few days before heading home. What was nice was as soon as we arrived back in our neighbourhood it felt nicely familiar. Also as it was the weekend the streets were buzzing. What is nice about Cuba, unlike most of Latin America, is that people predominantly work a normal Monday - Friday week so weekends are busy and also children are never really seen working and are always out playing like at home. It maybe a poor coun...

Our second stop in Cuba was the tobacco growing region of Vinales. About three hours from Havana by bus but a World apart! The highways around Cuba are surprisingly well maintained. They're modern and flat, probably one of the reasons for this is the lack of cars that use them! As most of the population wouldn't be able to afford to run a car, the highways are empty and so probably don't need much maintenance. You see many people hitchhiking on route, the coach g...

With much anticipation we arrived in Cuba for the last stop on our Latin American leg of the trip! Not really knowing what to expect as its still quite a closed country, run under one of the few remaining communist states. The government is still led by the Castro family, now Raul. Most tourists go in and out via a beach resort so rarely see the more local places, even Old Town Havana! We were led to expect big queues for basic products, the legendary old 1950...

Our final weekend in mainland Latin America was spent in Mexico's Cancun! Thought we'd go out with a bang and have a party to celebrate the last 8 months of travelling South and Central America! Arriving on Friday, we checked into a 'party hostel' that organises trips to the main clubs and gets a decent crowd together. A bit undecided at first we ended up heading to the most famous club in Central America... Coco Bongo! It was a bit more pricey but everyone sa...

Our final weekend in mainland Latin America was spent in Mexico's Cancun! Thought we'd go out with a bang and have a party to celebrate the last 8 months of travelling South and Central America! Arriving on Friday, we checked into a 'party hostel' that organises trips to the main clubs and gets a decent crowd together. A bit undecided at first we ended up heading to the most famous club in Central America... Coco Bongo! It was a bit more pricey but everyon...