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Our first trip on a Viazul tourist bus - very comfortable and mainly for tourists - took us down the first part of Cuba's only motorway, the Autopista, then cut down to the south through Cienfuegos and Girón.

Havana bus station: a row of smart new Yutong buses for the Astro service, a mid-priced service between the ordinary local buses and the Viazul tourist buses which we used.
Havana bus station: a row of smart new Yutong buses...
Viva el 26 de Julio.
Viva el 26 de Julio.
A railway track we crossed.
A railway track we crossed.
Hitch-hikers - another important form of transport in Cuba - waiting at a junction.
Hitch-hikers - another important form of transport in...
A view along the motorway from our coffee stop.
A view along the motorway from our...
[ Autopista services ]
Don't know what this is, but it looks very smart.
Don't know what this is, but it looks very smart.
The Bay of Pigs (Bahía de Cochinos), the site of the 1961 invasion by CIA-trained Cuban exiles. Not much to see from the bus.
The Bay of Pigs (Bahía de Cochinos), the site of the...
Girón, site of the defeat of the Bay of Pigs invasion: 'First defeat of Yankee imperialism in Latin America'.
Girón, site of the defeat of the Bay of Pigs...
A bus used by the locals (our spiffy Viazul bus is next to it). We assume the bonnet's open to let the engine cool (we saw a lot of this).
A bus used by the locals (our...
[ Cienfuegos bus station ]
A tidy graveyard.
A tidy graveyard.

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