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The group walked over to a farm in the Valley de los Ingenious.  It was about a fifteen minute walk through the countryside and this is  one of the typical looking houses we came across on our way.

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We arrived at the farm and the farmers showed us how they made sugar cane juice.  I didn't  try it but apparently it was quite good.

20140130_cuba_0452-2-2  Cows cannot be killed in Cuba without a license.  If one is caught the murderer would likely get 25 years in prison.  Liban told us that cows are highly valued because their milk is considered a necessary dietary component for children, pregnant women and elders.

The woman was sitting in front of her house when we arrived.   

20140130_cuba_0567 We were invited into the family's  home.  This was one of the two bedrooms. 

20140130_cuba_0575   A photo of the kitchen (outside, behind the house).    The photo on  the right is  their sitting area.  The scene could have come from an old western movie.

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20140130_cuba_0580-Edit The view from the back of the farmhouse.

20140130_cuba_0601-Edit This photo was taken on the way back to the bus after leaving the farmhouse.

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On the way back to Trinidad we stopped for a cold drink and a view of the valley.  

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After lunch and a break we headed out to meet some friends of Liban's.  They did some salsa dancing for us at their house.  

t was fun watching the salsa dancers -some of our group even joined in.  However, the lighting and background  were not very good t for photography so I tried some creative techniques just for fun.

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What a cutie.

20140130_cuba_0417-Edit We all walked to the  square near our hotel and watched and photographed the dancers.

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While we were watching the dancers I saw some kids having a great time  playing frisbee so I wondered over to watch them for a few minutes.  

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I wandered back over to the dancers to take a few close-up shots and discovered that my camera had stopped working -totally.  I just kept getting error messages.  So Richard was nice enough to lend me his camera (same model as mine)  to take a few pictures.  Fortunately I had a back up camera at the hotel  and we were just about finished taking pictures for the day as it was getting pretty dark by now.