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Category: Travel

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  • World Heritage Sites

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    The World Heritage List includes 830 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value [1]. If you have Google Earth you can download the KMZ file that includes all the sites. Downloading and then loading the file into Google Earth places markers at each site, making them…

  • Cuban Vacation: Lunch

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    On the first day we arrived, by noon it had already been a long day. After we checked in, dropped our luggage in our room, we surveyed the grounds and came across the pool-side BBQ restaurant. Shortly after sitting down, a band appeared and began to play. The snippet below offers a sense of the…

  • Cuban Vacation: Flowers

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    Cuban Vacation: Flowers

    It’s hard not to notice the flowers, especially when they are all gone here.

  • Cuban vacation: Shadows and Silhouettes

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    Cuban vacation: Shadows and Silhouettes

    At times the sun was quite bright, leaving crisp shadows on the surface, or providing a dramatic contrast between dark and light areas allowing day-time silhouettes.

  • Cuban Vacation: The Beach

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    Cuban Vacation: The Beach

    Although we spent most of our time by the pool, we walked along the beach a couple time a day shuttling between our suite and the hotel. Very pleasant. Note: click on photographs to see an enlargement