Another tour today for our group of 7 (they are all optional but such good value why not). First to a local farm where they grow the fruit for making chocolate and also farm coffee beans. The crop is mainly sold to the government for a pittance but they are allowed a very small part of the plantation to make and sell their own coffee and 100% chocolate. They explained the process to us (bit different to the Cadbury factory tour!) Then to a very small village in a...

If we told you lunch for the 7 of us at the end of our tour today was spit roasted suckling pig on the banks of a crystal clear running stream in a tropical rain forest listening to a Cuban music trio what sort of day do you reckon we would have had? You guessed it AMAZING!!!! Tour of a manual labour coconut processing cooperative, walking tour of a small private farm of mango, pineapples, coriander, bananas etc etc, rainforest walk near the sea, row boat ride ...

Drive today past Guantanamo Bay along the coast where we saw the only "desert" type landscape so far in Cuba. Great ocean views, cactus and pretty barren land - its probably the first bit of land we have seen in Cuba that isn't being farmed. Then inland across the mountain range to Baracoa - spectacular rain forest scenery and then back to farm land as we headed to Baracoa. A drive of incredible contrasting countryside. Ok Baracoa wins hands down. Our Casa is up...