15th November, 2010
Day 2 of our Cuban cycle escapade. On the whole it was much easier ride today in terms of the flatness of the entire terrain, but the distance was a lot further.
Had a great breakfast at our hotel in Veradaro – the best of the trip so far. Started from our hotel and had our bus transfer to our last destination point near Matanzas. Started cycling at around 9:00 am and started cycling south towards Cienfuegos.
Today’s route was a much flatter surface and it was quite smooth throughout. Stopped after around 10 km, just to regroup.
Today, weather-wise, it was glorious day – blue skies above, roughly around 27 degrees Celsius and I presume a humidity factor of around 50%. Perfect conditions for cycling
We then stopped for lunch in a lovely little village - Bolondron, before which we stopped for a quick toilet break enroot at a local’s house. It was a nice little, high ceiling, and tiled roofed house. Reminded me of the houses in my hometown in Kerala, India. Angela again grabbed the opportunity, and handed the little kids of the house her pink CLIC sergeant balloons who were mighty thrilled at the prospect of having a toy for their near future.
Lunch was served near the village’s local rail station. Was a perfect opportunity to shoot some abandoned railway track shots. Lunch was cooked by our backup truck drivers wife, and as always was perfect.! Salad, banana critters, rice with black beans and some lovely beef and potato.
By this time we had completed 45 km for the day and according to amilio, we had another 25 odd km to complete before our transfer to the hotel.
Post lunch session was another situation of perfect riding conditions, and perfectly summed up the days ride – challenging, yet thorough fun.!
Stopped just before the main highway stretch and loaded our bikes onto the truck. It was then a good hour and fifteen minutes transfer to our next hotel for the following 2 nights - rancho Luna resort, on the outskirts of Cienfuegos, where we would be put up for the next 2 nights. Enroot, amilio enlightened us about the life in Cuba – “the best part about Cuba is you can get divorced easily!” jokes aside, it was informative and amilio tried his best to demonstrate the socio economic conditions of Cuba and life of a Cuban.
The resort seemed massive to Cuban standards, I guess, and even had a fantastic swimming pool. Dinner was fab, and was in for an early night as it looked as if jet lag and exhaustions had finally kicked in.
Stay tuned for the remaining part of our journey, until then Adios.!
Stats for the day:
Total distance: 72 KM
Difficulty factor: 5
Saddle soreness factor: 5
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