{"id":61256,"date":"2015-11-03T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=61256"},"modified":"2015-11-03T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T11:49:08","slug":"day-4-caribbean-sea-of-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=61256","title":{"rendered":"Day 4:  Caribbean Sea of Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my mexican amigo talked me into going on a long bus ride to the beach.  the beach?  why would i want to go to the beach?  i&#8217;m from hawaii right?  but after spending 3 days in the busy city, i needed to get back into the ocean.  yes, remember that i&#8217;m a fish.<br \/>\nl left my hotel at 7am in the morning, got into a taxi to the bus station, then a 3 hour bus ride.   arriving there at 11am, we had to catch the 4pm bus to make it back to the city in time.   got a cab and headed to the beach.  spent some time there, ate lunch, got back to the station, and another 3 hour ride back to the city.  i got back to havana at 7:30pm.  we spent only 2 hours in the ocean and 1 hour for lunch.  that&#8217;s pretty much it.   was it worth it???<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1832.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1832.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1832\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61259\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nshit yeah!  omg, it was one of the most beautiful beach i&#8217;ve ever seen in my life.  i thought i saw the most beautiful beach a few days ago in cancun, but this beach was like cancun without all the hotels.  pure white sand and the most beautiful emerald water.  i got into my shorts and couldn&#8217;t want to jump in.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1848.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1848.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1848\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61260\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni couldn&#8217;t believe how clean the water was!!!  who would think that Cuba&#8217;s beaches were like this?  i had no idea all these years.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1851.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1851.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1851\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61262\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhen i first jumped in, i felt so refreshed.  from the busy city to the slow sea.  what an amazing change.  reborn!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1874.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1874.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1874\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61263\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni spent 2 hours here so had lots of time to play around.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1900.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1900.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61264\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis is my mexican amigo Rudy.  i was so happy to meet him on the 2nd day because he became my translator for the rest of the trip.  a very cool guy that i have lots to talk about.  will get into that later.  but yes, we had a wonderful lunch.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1915.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1915.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1915\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61258\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ngot back to the city kind of late.  showered at my apartment, then went to my favorite restaurant for dinner.  it was my last night so i wanted to shower me with love.  got there at 8pm and the line was crazy!  the guy said 2 hour wait???  i ate here twice on this trip so i know it is very good and inexpensive.  i wait, wait, and wait.  the line goes down and i&#8217;m next.  the only lonely single person.  i get to my table, it&#8217;s set up for 3 people.  i wonder &#8220;umm, maybe some beautiful latina salsa dancers will join me?&#8221;   i was so hungry that i started having weird dreams like that.  haha.   the food was excellent, the service excellent, and everything excellent.  another awesome day in Cuba.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1912.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1912.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1912\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61257\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis was my appetizer.  the most amazing cheese cream soup ever!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1948-e1446550613395.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1948-e1446550613395.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1948\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61261\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen woke up early on my last day to finish up taking photos for my journal.  here is a cool looking school.  watched as the kids were eager to study.  i wanted to yell into the window &#8220;hey kids, study english!  the americans are coming so get ready to make lots of money!&#8221;  haha.  took so many beautiful images on this trip.  can&#8217;t wait to go home, upload them, and relive my Cuban Dream Trip!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my mexican amigo talked me into going on a long bus ride to the beach. the beach? why would i want to go to the beach? i&#8217;m from hawaii right? but after spending 3 days in the busy city, i needed to get back into the ocean. yes, remember that i&#8217;m a fish. l left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}