Hello.
I am here in Havana Cuba.
I'm gonna show you some of the things you might not think about doing in Havana,
starting off with El Bosque which is Havana's forest.
We're now in Chinatown.
So, Havana is interesting because it has its own Chinatown
and it was made by a Chinese community here
but there's really no Chinese people left here.
And there's only a few Chinese restaurants here.
People come to Chinatown here in Havana for the food.
The food is incredibly famous here
because they like to give a lot of food
and it's usually pretty good.
There was a time when there were
over 50,000 Chinese people here living in Cuba.
Now, that's not the case.
A little bit of the culture still remains as some people do speak Chinese.
And as you can see, the food is now mixed up with Cuban food
and it's its own thing,
and extremely delicious.
This video is happening thanks to Tropical Tours
who is taking me around Cuba.
Something else that you should try out while in Havana is riding a bicitaxi.
Which is a bicycle taxi.
We are now going to try some Cuban pizza,
this pizza is famous because it only costs 10 Cuban pesos.
So, that means that it is roughly around 50 cents in US dollars,
that's right, a whole pizza.
This pizza is probably a personal pizza, it's like the size of a dish.
They call it the ten dollar pizza.
Oh, good. Yeah.
I'm now gonna get in a taxi that's actually a little train
and we're gonna go down The Malecón
which is what they call this sidewalk that is right next to the water
and people like to come here to chill
and just get some of the ocean breeze.
We're now going to Coppelia
which is a place where you can get some ice cream.
Cubans line up for hours to get into this place.
It's not that the ice cream at Coppelia is anything special
or that there is an ice cream anywhere else,
it's just that it's a place to come and socialize.
People just like to come here, hang out,
they'll spend hours in line just talking and having fun,
and then when they finally get inside and have the ice cream
they spend more time there.
So, it's not like they leave after they eat the ice cream,
it's more of a social activity.
Right across the street from Coppelia is a movie theater
so, a lot of young people, they'll go watch a movie
and then they'll go to Coppelia and have some ice cream,
and then maybe they'll hang out by The Malecón
in the afternoon, in the evening,
and that's a whole day just hanging out.
It just so happens that right outside of the movie theater
is this well known Cuban musician Tony Ávila
and he is performing here right now.
So, we're just gonna go check it out for a second
while we're still waiting in line here.
This is pretty cool because someone that's well known
and to be able to see them so close and for free,
it's something that doesn't really happen
and it just was a coincidence.
My tour guide from Tropical Tours is actually holding my place in line right now,
so, I'm gonna go back in there
and I'll see you when I'm eating some ice cream.
There are six rooms in the upstairs section of the Coppelia,
in those rooms there are a bunch of chairs and tables
and the whole area probably seats
maybe like a thousand people.
So, there's lines here that last hours
and that means there's a lot of people who want ice cream.
And that's it for this video,
I hope that you got something out of it
and were able to learn about some of the stuff
that you can do here in Havana Cuba that isn't the typical stuff.
Be sure to give this video a thumbs up
and leave a comment down below letting me know
what you thought was the most interesting part about this video.
And definitely subscribe
and hit that notification bell for me, please,
because then you'll get a notification every single time
that I put up a video just like this one.
And don't forget to check out all of the links down below
so that you learned about Topical Tours
and all of the excursions that they offer.
I just got to my Airbnb that Tropical Tours hooked up for me
and I am going to go to paladar now.
Paladar is a fancy word for restaurant here in Cuba.
And I'm gonna go get ready.
So, I will see you when I see you, bye!
This video was made possible by my patrons over at PATREON.COM/REDROMINA
If you like what I do, become a patron and be a part of the exploration.