In October 2016, I traveled to Cuba through Panama. While there, I visited Havana, Trinidad, the Bay of Pigs, and Viñales, to experience a wide range of Cuba: the city, the villages, and the agricultural region.
The colors of Trinidad, Cuba.
A man exits a taxi in front of El Floridita in Havana, Cuba, a bar made famous by Ernest Hemingway.
The Cuban flag hangs in an entryway in Trinidad.
Cuba is the largest country by land area in the Caribbean. Viñales Valley is a karstic depression in Cuba. The valley has an area of 51 square miles and is located in the Sierra de los Ógranos mountains, just North of Viñales in the Pinar del Río Province. This area is know for being an agricultural region, well known for its tobacco. Many endemic plants and animals are specific to this valley.
Technically, it's not legal to skateboard in Cuba. It falls into a legal gray area which doesn't stop the Cubans from participating.
Goats play on a trailer next to a tobacco drying barn in Vinales, Cuba.
Isolated on an island that has been cut off from U.S. imports for half a decade makes cars family heirlooms. This man is prepping his car for sale.
There are street dogs everywhere you look, many suffering from malnutrition and skin diseases. Being stuck on an island in the Caribbean has shade being the key to survival.
A cobbler at work on the side streets of Old Havana.
The views of Trinidad.
A farmer walks among the rows of produce growing at Finca Agroecologica El Paraiso in Vinales, a true farm-to-table farm and restaurant where everything is grown onsite using organic and sustainable practices.
A woman holds her baby up at the family-run Finca Agroecologica El Paraiso in Vinales.
Young chickens feed on the sidewalks of Havana.
The heat of the Caribbean beats down on residents who are experienced in creating their own shade.
Cockfighting in Cuba is in the legal grey area. The defeated lay on the side of a street in Old Havana.
The streets of Havana.
A farmer uses a machete to scrape the outer layer off of the sugar cane before pressing it for juice.
Café for you, café for me.
A farmer butchers a pig at a fully sustainable farm in Viñales.
Tobacco dries in a barn in Viñales.
The colorful streets of Trinidad.
Beach cacti.
"For your health," they tell me.
Seaside vista.
Plantain grove in Viñales Valley.
The shady decay.
A man and his donkey.
A casita in the Bay of Pigs.
The car on a string seems to be a good metaphor for making do with what you have.
The colorful streets of Havana.
A woman carries her meat and stock pot from the market.
The colorful streets of Trinidad.
A mosquito net blows in the wind in the seaside village on the Bay of Pigs.
A street hustler's attempt to entertain.
A musician performs at Fábrica de Arte Cubano.
The Havana night light.
