CUBA: FEBRUARY 2017

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Waiting for transportation in Havana

Brazil Street in Havana

with the National Capitol Building in the background

Street performers in Havana

The Christopher Columbus Necropolis in Havana

with the neo-Romanesque Capilla Central (1886) in the center

One of the tanks President Eisenhower gifted to President Batista,

employed to suppress a pre-Castro student uprising,

now permanently on exhibition at the University of Havana

The Calle de Hamel in Central Havana

a center of Afro-Cuban culture and the Santeria religion

Lieschen explores Habana Vieja (Old Havana) in the evening

A rebirth of private enterprise is spearheaded

by the ubiquitous home-based restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts

A tobacco farm in the Valle de Vinales in Western Cuba

The distinctive mogote mountains in the Valle de Vinales in Western Cuba

The Cuban hutia (Capromys pilorides or "tree rat") is the largest survivng endemic mammal in Cuba

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