Today after our visit to the Mausoleum, we head on to the Viñales region.
We travel to the lush rainforest of Soroa with its orchids and waterfalls, before continuing on to Viñales, one of the most famously picturesque areas of Cuba.
Millions of years ago underground rivers cut tunnels through the limestone hills and when the roofs collapsed strange hills or ‘mogotes’, with interesting and sometimes unique vegetation, were left sticking up from today’s flat valley floor.
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The iron-rich, red soil creates a patchwork of fields growing some of the best tobacco in the world - the raw material for the ubiquitous cigars.
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