Transportation: Questions & Links

In Havana - if it has wheels, someone will be transporting something on it.

And a few minutes later the oxen come.

A few minutes later... Where's he going?

Questions:

1. Compare how you travel within your town with how a Cuban travels within his/her town.
2. Compare how you travel between cities where you live with how a Cuban travels between cities.
3. Explain why transportation in Cuba is such a problem.
4. Weblink questions:
   a. How many hours long is the train ride from Habana to Santiago?   How many miles is it?  How much does it cost?
   b. To what countries are Americans not allowed to travel?  Why?

Peddle power in Viñales

Kids having fun with homemade skateboards near Trindiad, (but this could have been in any city on the island.)

Links:

http://www.viazul.cu/home.htm - homepage of Viazul - a major tourist bus company of Cuba 

http://www.recta.org/pdf/horses-mules-donkeys-in-Cuba-Starkey-Rios-Valdes-Sotto.pdf - a paper about the use horses, mules and donkeys in Cuba.

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