Aside from the guided tour, one of the the best excursions was an impromptu decision to explore a street by running down it as fast as we could when the policia broke up the black market cigar buy Lawrence was trying to make in a dark hallway. After the Tropicana we split into two groups. It was hot, sweaty, loud and absolutely perfect. I'm not one for guided tours, but since ours was included in the price of the hotel I dragged myself out of bed one morning to take it. The 4-hour tour covered a lot of ground, from a ride along Ave.
Revolutions are big business in Havana, probably second only to prostitution.
The signs are everywhere. But they're all rather professional looking, not what you'd expect from someone caught up in a fit of revolutionary fervor. The tour bus took us to Old Havana, which was built inside the walls on Havana Bay. New Havana is just as old but was built outside the walls. As we get off the bus at the Catedral de La Habana , groups of children converge on us, asking for pens, selling us beads and drawing crude caricatures of us for a dollar.