Lost again in Havana

It's Thursday now and we're on the bus to Trinidad. The bus from Batabano to Havana yesterday was uneventful, although I noticed we didn't have to get our tickets and passports checked nearly as much as on the way there. We had to show our passport and ticket to enter the ferry terminus, then get our tickets validated at a booth (they were ticking off who'd arrived and who hadn't, presumably so they could sell any spares). Then we showed our passports at security and our bus tickets on the bus (just once!). All in all much less complicated.

At the bus station in Havana we looked around for the place to buy Viazul tickets but couldn't see it so decided to go to the Viazul station instead.

But first we headed back to Diane's house where we were planning to leave our luggage and find out where the casa she'd arranged for us was (she had a booking for that night). We were pleasantly surprised to find her booking had cancelled, so we could stay there after all. The maid (I wish we knew her name) greeted us so warmly and enthusiastically, it was lovely.

We decided to spend the afternoon walking to the Viazul bus station, then to the Havanatur office in Miramar. It was quite a long walk all in all. We found the Viazul place easily enough, walking around the Necropolis Colon, tightly packed with graves, down towards the zoo.



Outside the bus station there were swarms of taxis trying to persuade us to go with them instead of by bus.

Then we headed to Havanatur to see if they ran buses to Vinales (in case we missed our connection using Viazul). Miramar is across the river, and it wasn't until we were most of the way there that we realised the route I'd chosen involved a tunnel. We weren't sure whether to keep going in the hope that the tunnel was open to pedestrians, or not. We ploughed on for a bit, but we seemed to be entering a no-man's-land so we turned back, adding perhaps an extra two miles to our journey. Annoyingly, it later transpired that the tunnel was open to pedestrians and that it was only a couple of streets away from where we'd got to.

Anyway, it gave us an opportunity to walk through Miramar - very very posh.