Second day in Havana

We thought we would wake up very early because we hadn't stayed up until late the previous night, but of course, that wasn't the case. We had breakfast at the house and we went to see the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba, the National Arts Museum. We were mostly interested in the Cuban art building and we skipped the international one.

The Cuban building was fantastic. It has a huge collection that I really enjoyed, although the air conditioning was too strong and I got cold. The museum's store sold very affordable and beautiful prints and I got a couple of them for my new apartment. We went for lunch to the restaurant next to our place, called Donde Lis, which wasn't bad although not as good as the one where we had dinner the previous night. The tostones rellenos (stuffed plantains) were delicious though!

We went for a walk but we hadn't really planned the next stages of our trip, so we stopped at a bar with live music to check our travel book and decide what to do.

We stopped at an Etecsa center to get an Internet card. This is part of the ritual of getting online in Cuba. Since December 2018, Cubans can buy data for their mobile phones, but it's expensive, so many keep going to the public squares where since 2014, Etecsa (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba, Cuba Telecommunications Office) offers connection for hours, through cards that you can purchase at their offices. The speed is mediocre, the service disconnects at times, and the whole thing is inconvenient, but we went to Parque Cervantes, got online, and managed to book a place in Viñales, our next destination, with an American credit card and a VPN.

For dinner, we went to an Italian restaurant, 5 Esquinas Trattoria. It was OK but nothing special. We ended the night at the Plaza del Cristo, at a bar called Kilometro Zero. It didn't look special in any way but we ended up having a blast because a band was playing live music and some servers and couples were dancing and singing around the place.

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba
http://www.bellasartes.co.cu/

Donde Lis
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5 Esquinas Trattoria
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Kilómetro Zero
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