After a nice breakfast we packed our stuff and set off for the bus station. We walked down to the main street and caught a horse carriage from there which only cost us 2 pesos cubanos. Very good deal!
We got the tickets and waited for the Viazul bus to pick us up. The bus experience was overall quite good apart from the fact that the journey took forever and we had to change busses on the way as the first one had a puncher.
We arrived in Trinidad around 4 pm. Just managed to avoid a crowd of jineteros on the way out of the bus station. Lots of desperate house owners and jineteros in Trinidad. With more than 300 casas the competition is crazy. We decided to stay in the casa, recommended to us by two English girls we met in Santa Clara, casa Chocolate :). It was really easy to find, only took us about 10 minutes from the bus stop.
The place was quite shabby, but people were great and the views from roof terrace and two balconies were amazing. Not to mention the price was great as well, 15 CUC including breakfast. Dinner was also offered at a reasonable price of 10 CUC for both. We were not too sure at first whether to take it or not but the fact that the house owner is a chef at one of the hotels resolved our doubts.
After settling in we decided to take a look around town and grab some lunch. Found a great place where they served some surf and turf pizza with everything imaginable, was good though. Our walk didn’t last for very long as we were caught by a downpour and had to make a quick escape back to the casa and giant dinner which waited for us there! Honestly the portions would have been enough for a family of 4. Crazy! After that we couldn’t even walk, so the only choice left was to watch the sunset and sleep and so we did. Granny couple once again in bed before 11 :) haha
