Trisha's posts with tag: cuba
|  | Towards the end of my 2002-2003 Round-The-World trip, I was in Mexico, trying to make plans to go to Guatemala but with visa application taking up to 3 weeks, it did not make sense at all as I had only 4 weeks left.
Then, I had a sudden brainwave to go to Cuba. What a fantastic decision! Cuba, being a Communist country and SO DIFFERENT from the other places that I had just visited, really opened my eyes to many things.
Of course, I only learnt about many MORE things about Cuba after I left but after travelling for 11 months and feeling a tad jaded, I surely needed Cuba to jolt me a little and get all nervous, uncertain and apprehensive again. |
Link: http://www.travelpost.com/itinerary-overview.aspx?itinid=485Apr 27, 2002 - Apr 26, 2003 (365 days)
It's great to be a little unnerved by new countries, new experiences, new currencies, new languages, new food, new ways of doing the same things... I love it.
After plucking up the courage to resign from my job, from Singapore, I made my first hop to China, then north across to Mongolia and took the train through Russia. I then journeyed to Western Europe to meet up with some friends.
I flew across the Atlantic to Brazil next, before overlanding to Argentina and wandered up the length of Argentina and Chile up to Peru, being turning back to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I headed to Mexico and made an unexpected stop in Cuba, then, I crossed the other large ocean mass, the Pacific, from Los Angeles in USA to the beautiful French Polynesian Islands. Then, it's off to HOME...
Gosh, had it been a year already!?!!
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