Cuba Rail

There's no way I could spend a holiday in Cuba without visiting Cuba Rail and even in spite of all my planning and the vast amounts of help that I received from the Cuba Rail Yahoo Group, nothing prepared me for the virtual cancellation of all services that I planned to see and one train that was running five hours late from Havana. If you're not conversant with driving in Cuba, don't even think about it, nor hiring a car or relying on rail or buses to take you to where you want to be. The condition of the roads is invariably appalling, no lighting, pot holed and riddled with people, horse and carts and bicycles without lights. The recommendation of the group was to find a local taxi and hire him for the day. I was real lucky and found Victor the taxi driver who took all the cuban hassle out of my day and provided me with 200 miles of cuban culture, stopping wherever I wanted him to, to photograph trains, buses, cars, lorries and carts for £140. My visit to Cuba Railways was limited to Cacocum and Las Tunas stations.

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