A digital archive for the May 2018 Bacca Cuba trip
Photo Gallery
The group taking a guided city tour of Havana from Rosbel Alpi
Woman offering water to street dogs in Plaza de las Armas
A street beside Plaza de las Armas is paved in wooden bricks
Aqueduct built in 1592
Live music at our first lunch in Cuba
Ropa Vieja (a traditional Cuban dish of shredded beef)
The streets of downtown Havana are decorated with cannons and cannonballs as a sign of peace
Susan Roberts standing in a Havana street
Kids play fútbol in Plaza Vieja
Living statue
1st night in Havana – dinner at Casa Lilliam, a paladar (private, family-run restaurant)
Entrance to Callejón de Hamel, home to Havana’s Santería community
Callejón de Hamel
Gerardo Marti walking in Callejón de Hamel
Cuban street in Havana near Callejón de Hamel
Bust of José Martí in the Museo de la Revolución, with bullet holes in the wall behind
Cuban Flag at Museo de la Revolución
Diorama of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in Museo de la Revolución
View from Museo de la Revolución
The whole Davidson group (and two guides) at Museo de la Revolución
Angie Willis standing next to a statue of Cecilia Valdés in Plaza del Ángel in Havana. Cecilia is a character in a novel published by Cuban author Cirilo Villaverde in 1839, and her statue stands in a location spotlighted in the novel.
Sharon Green and Annie Merrill in front of Hotel Nacional
View from Hotel Nacional
Image of Cuba on the terrace of Hotel Nacional
Many of the group members and guides in front of Coppelia, a state-run ice cream parlor
Group members in La Mansión Camagüey, which now houses La Guardia paladar (family-run restaurant)
Buena Vista Social Club performance
The group talks with three University of Havana professors: Camilo García López-Trigo, Marta Núñez, and Alberto Faya
Lola Santamaría , Helen Cho, and Angie Willis ready for their classic car tour of Havana
Susan Roberts in a 1950s classic car
Maggie McCarthy and Amanda Ewington on a classic car tour of Havana
El Malecón
Entrance to Fusterlandia, a neighborhood in Havana filled with artist José Fuster’s mosaics
Fusterlandia – Viva Cuba
Lola Santamaría sitting on a bench in Fusterlandia
Wall in Fusterlandia
Cara Evanson and artist José Fuster with the book he signed and illustrated for Davidson College
Fusterlandia – from inside looking towards the exit
Ministry of the Interior building beside Plaza de la Revolución with image of Che Guevara
Ministry of Informatics and Communications building beside Plaza de la Revolución with image of Camilo Cienfuegos
Ho Chi Minh Monument in Havana neighborhood
An offering left on the curb in the Vedado neighborhood in Havana, likely by a practitioner of Santería
Group debrief at Odette’s house in Nuevo Vedado neighborhood of Havana
Profesor Joanna from Universidad Tecnológica de de la Habana
Ferry to Regla neighborhood. Our guide told us it has been seized several times by Cubans attempting to flee to Miami.
Group takes a guided tour of Regla neighborhood in Havana
Church in Havana neighborhood of Regla
Cubans dressed in white in Regla neighborhood of Havana. Practitioners of Santería wear white as part of their commitment to a year of purification practices
Figure of Santa Bárbara inside a church in the Havana neighborhood of Regla
Home altar in Havana neighborhood of Regla
A rainy lunch at Café del Angel in the neighborhood of Havana Vieja
Fruits and vegetables in a Havana market
Medicinal herbs for sale at Havana market
A meat vendor in a Havana market
List of products available to buy with ration cards
A used bookstore in Havana
Cannon ceremony at Havana’s Morro Castle
Presbyterian minister Daniel Izquierdo Hernández (center) with Dan Layman, Gerardo Marti, Matt Samson, and Annie Merrill
Cara Evanson and Angie Willis with Casa de las Américas librarians Angel González Abreu and Addys Molina, dropping off book donations from Davidson professors
Entrance to government-run Partagas Cigar Factory
Havana Street
Amanda Ewington with Cuban writer Anna Lidia Vega Serova, winner of the Premio David in 1997 and 1998
Amanda Ewington and Angie Willis with Cuban writer Anna Lidia Vega Serova
Stopped at a gas station on a rainy morning drive to the Cuba province of Pinar del Río
Mogotes (limestone hills) in the Pinar del Río province of Cuba, west of Havana
Finca Agroecológica el Paraiso in the Viñales Valley
Garden at Finca Agroecológica el Paraiso
Kevin Smith bird watching at Finca Agroecológica el Paraiso
Coffee at the family-run restaurant at Finca Agroecológica el Paraiso
Tobacco field in Viñales
Tobacco leaves drying
Tobacco farmer in Viñales
Men watching a fútbol match on TV in a neighborhood in Viñales
Angie Willis with Hibiscus tree in Viñales neighborhood
Cuban Emerald Hummingbird (Chlorostilbon ricordii) in Viñales
Horse cart Viñales
Sign in Viñales from the CDR – Committee for the Defense of the Revolution – neighborhood organizations to promote the revolution and report on anti-revolutionary activity
Las Terrazas – an ecocommunity of 1,000 people founded in 1971 which is now a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
Pink Cone Ginger (Alpinia purpurata) at Las Terrazas
Moraima (3rd from left), stands on the porch her home in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana with the members of the group who stayed there
The Cuba coastline east of Havana
An oil rig on the coast east of Havana
Susan Roberts joins the band during a rest stop near the Cuba province of Matanzas
A Puerto Rican Giant Millipede (Rhinocricus parcus) near Matanzas
Annie Merrill photographing an iguana
Frog sitting on a leaf near Matanzas
Kevin Smith holding a Cuban treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis)
Bridge to Cuba province of Matanzas
Our drivers and guides, Yasniel, David, Ramón, Ernesto, Daniel, and Fredy
Héctor Correa, a farmer in the town of Jovellanos
Homage to Einstein on a barn at Héctor Correa’s farm
Rose of Venezuela (Brownea grandiceps) on Héctor Correa’s farm
Statue in homage to Hemingway’s Old Man and the sea Héctor Correa’s farm
Anne Wills sits in an outdoor classroom on Héctor Correa’s farm
Food for lunch grown and prepared on Héctor Correa’s farm
Plate of food at Héctor Correa’s farm
The group eating lunch on Héctor Correa’s farm
Stingless bees on Héctor Correa’s farm
Amanda Ewington samples the honey from a (stingless) bee box on Héctor Correa’s farm
A peacock on Héctor Correa’s farm
Matt Samson on Héctor Correa’s farm
Our driver and guide, and David, driving through the Cuban countryside east of Havana
Entering the city of Cienfuegos
Propaganda near Cienfuegos
Propaganda across the street from our Cienfuegos hotel, Casa Maikel
Sub-tropical storm Alberto hits, stranding us in our hotel Casa Maikel
Our guides and drivers play a game of dominoes in Casa Maikel
Our guides bring in salsa instructors
After salsa lessons, our guides surprise us with a live band
Eating breakfast at Casa Maikel in Cienfuegos
Part of our Cuban breakfast at Casa Maikel – pineapple, mango, mamey, and coffee
Playing cards to pass the time during sub-tropical storm Alberto
Our driver Ramón with Dan Aldridge
Flooded roads in Cienfuegos near our hotel
Driving on flooded roads on our way out of Cienfuegos
Flooded highway
Propaganda on our way out of Cienfuegos
Flooded field on our way out of Cienfuegos during sub-tropical storm Alberto
Entrance to Girón (Bay of Pigs)
Entrance to Museo Girón (Bay of Pigs Museum)
Lobby of Museo Girón
Exhibit in Museo Girón honoring those who died in the Bay of Pigs invasion
Museo Girón Literacy Campaign Exhibit
Gerardo Marti with a bust of José Martí in Playa Girón
Helen Cho and Matt Samson on a corner in Old Havana
Angie Willis with Cuban artist Arbelio Fontes Rodriguez
Gerardo Marti browses in a used bookstore in Havana
El Tanque – the home of Muraleando, a community arts project in the Lawton municipality of Havana
Manuel Diaz Baldrich, director of Muraleando, talks to the group about the community art project in the Lawton neighborhood of Havana
Mosaic in Muraleando of Abraham Lincoln and Che Guevara
Bird mosaic in Muraleando
Benches in Muraleando
Sharon Green dances to a live band in Muraleando
Kevin Smith, Gerardo Mari, and Dan Layman, soon after our guides surprised us with a classic car ride to the airport.
Bridge on the route to the airport during our classic car ride