Santiago de Cuba

Next stop was Santiago in the orient, five hours from Baracoa its the second capital city of Cuba. Stinking hot, really noisey and very polluted. So much like Habana but way hotter. It has great history much like Baracoa, so I spent some time visiting spanish castles, forts & stuff built hundreds of years ago by the spaniards to keep the english out of Cuba! Their down fall came one hundred years ago when the cubans got fed up and descided to launch thier revolution assisted by the US of course. In the end the spaniards gave up and the US took all the glory. See, the entire history of Santiago in a few lines! (with a few bits of detail missed out I admit).