Cuba Day Trip to Viales #2 May 2009

     As we were traveling along the bumpy freeway I started thinking about the differences between California and Cuba – less deciduous trees except eucalyptus; palm trees; sugar cane farms; tobacco fields; many pedestrians and bicyclists; some horse-drawn carts; people waiting in the shade of the overpass for transportation in overcrowded buses or standing in truck beds; plus the government billboard propaganda.
     We took a winding back road to Viales, which has been designated as a World Heritage Site because of the many Mogotis (rounded mountains only 1,312 feet high) formed in the Jurassic period when the area was covered in water.
   In fact, on our last stop of the day, we saw a Diego Rivera inspired mural done in 1939 which depicts dinosaurs.