{"id":3150,"date":"2017-03-26T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2017-07-02T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T11:34:06","slug":"spectacular-vinales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular Vi\u00f1ales."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Embellished by soaring pine trees and bulbous limestone cliffs that teeter like top-heavy haystacks above placid tobacco plantations, Parque Nacional Vi\u00f1ales is one of Cuba\u2019s most magnificent natural settings. Wedged spectacularly into the Sierra de los \u00d3rganos mountain range, this 11km-by-5km valley was recognised as a national monument in 1979, with Unesco World Heritage status following in 1999 for its dramatic steep-sided limestone outcrops (known as mogotes), coupled with the vernacular architecture of its traditional farms and villages. Lonely Planet Guide to Cuba.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Armed with six pages of dot matrix printed paper (my bus tickets for the next 3 weeks), a list of contacts for ‘Casa Particulares’ (courtesy of Mary), and a more compact back-pack than when I arrived (left unneeded items with Loly), I jumped into the shared taxi that was to deliver me to my next destination 2-hours west of Havana.<\/p>\n

The Viazul bus from Havana to Vi\u00f1ales was fully booked for the next week so I had no option but to use a shared taxi.<\/p>\n

The car was relatively new but still dilapidated and it’s owner, Eric, drove like a maniac. He was using his mobile phone during the entire journey\u00a0– making calls and sending text messages. How we didn’t run into the back of another vehicle I shall never know.\u00a0My fellow companions said very little, but then neither did I.<\/p>\n

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Valle de Vi\u00f1ales – western Cuba.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Next stage: hiking through tobacco plantations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Embellished by soaring pine trees and bulbous limestone cliffs that teeter like top-heavy haystacks above placid tobacco plantations, Parque Nacional Vi\u00f1ales is one of Cuba\u2019s most magnificent natural settings. Wedged spectacularly into the Sierra de los \u00d3rganos mountain range, this … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[155,151],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuba","tag-cuba","tag-vinales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldoftravelling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}