Santiago de Cuba lies next to the Caribbean Sea, Baracoa next to the Atlantic. Altogether, the journey takes about four hours. First of all one has to travel towards the east up to Guantanamo (there where the “Guantanamera” come from, those are girls from Guantanamo), then one must turn off towards the north in the direction of Baracoa. Once in Guantanamo (a small dump) one has completed about half of the journey, however, there are a few serpentines to be encountered. All in all a nice drive. Mariachi had done the tour before, this was a good thing because we didn’t have to ask the way all that often. The signposting isn’t all that good at all.

One has to travel along the “motorway” great; hardly any traffic at all, but one does have to keep ones eyes open all the time, cows, horses and goats amongst other things, are seen now and again running around on the carriageway…. There are also a hell of a lot of cyclists and horse and carts, well, in general, everything is possible. We also saw a lot of hitchhikers trying to hitch a lift, but our car was full of luggage, which was a great pity. We could have had a good bit of luck…. Anyway, there was a nice varying view of the landscape.