soultrut: NOT blocked in cuba

[vintageinfants]

i´m on a solo mission to cuba, diggin records and playing golf. sippin mojitos and smoking robainos. anyone need me to keep an eye for some rekkids? name names.

this site isn´t blocked by the federales.... have we failed as a community?

spilling coffee on my crocs,

VI

 

[vintageinfants]

 

[vintageinfants]

record pics to come. strewn about the room and dusty as fuck.

 

[DOR]

Stop braggin' that you're livin' it up while the rest of your Torontonian brothers & sisters are out in the cold.

 

[vintageinfants]

i´ll bring you back some coffee. de nada.

 

[ketan]

solo mission is epic. i'm jealous!





did you take a portable down?

 

[discos_alma]

Just some 'ol son montuno 45s and maybe a few less golf course pics. ;-)

 

[ppadilha]

have a Bucanero for me

 

[Ex-Boyfriend]

Of course this communist sewer isn't banned in cuba.

 

[RAJ]

Do they let Americans in? Or... take kindly to us? I would love to travel Cuba with my camera and get flicks on some aging classic car on cobblestone streets steez?

 

[ppadilha]

RAJ saido they let Americans in? Or... take kindly to us? I would love to travel Cuba with my camera and get flicks on some aging classic car on cobblestone streets steez?




they do let americans in, you just have to fly in from Mexico or Canada - no direct flights to Cuba from the USA. They also put a special secret stamp on your passport to let the US immigration know you were there. I went with my school when I was in college and had a great time, although they try to keep tourists restricted to certain areas (mainly by making you spend US dollars which aren't accepted everywhere) and there can be some weirdness with the authorities if you stray out of those areas.

 

[DOR]

ppadilha said:RAJ saido they let Americans in? Or... take kindly to us? I would love to travel Cuba with my camera and get flicks on some aging classic car on cobblestone streets steez?




they do let americans in, you just have to fly in from Mexico or Canada - no direct flights to Cuba from the USA. They also put a special secret stamp on your passport to let the US immigration know you were there. I went with my school when I was in college and had a great time, although they try to keep tourists restricted to certain areas (mainly by making you spend US dollars which aren't accepted everywhere) and there can be some weirdness with the authorities if you stray out of those areas.




Do they really do that to Americans? The time I went they didn't even stamp my passport directly. Just my paper visa. Which I assumed they did so I didn't have a stamp to give me issues going into the US later.





I'm betting within 5-10 years we'll see US-Cuba restrictions lowered.

 

[Duderonomy]

DOR said:





I'm betting only after Castro has died of old age will we see US-Cuba restrictions lowered.




fixed

 

[ppadilha]

DOR saidpadilha said:RAJ saido they let Americans in? Or... take kindly to us? I would love to travel Cuba with my camera and get flicks on some aging classic car on cobblestone streets steez?




they do let americans in, you just have to fly in from Mexico or Canada - no direct flights to Cuba from the USA. They also put a special secret stamp on your passport to let the US immigration know you were there. I went with my school when I was in college and had a great time, although they try to keep tourists restricted to certain areas (mainly by making you spend US dollars which aren't accepted everywhere) and there can be some weirdness with the authorities if you stray out of those areas.




Do they really do that to Americans? The time I went they didn't even stamp my passport directly. Just my paper visa. Which I assumed they did so I didn't have a stamp to give me issues going into the US later.




maybe they stopped doing the stamp thing? It used to be on a specific page, 14 or 15 I think, and it was just a tiny stamp on the corner. Since the US wouldn't issue visas for Cuba, Cuba wouldn't put an official stamp on your passport. I went during that short period after the end of the Clinton administration when the US was trying to soften relations and allowed educational and journalist trips, but I didn't have a paper visa. I know things have changed since then.

 

[willie_fugal]

when i went (i'm american) they didn't stamp my actual passport–just a paper visa that i had to buy from the cubana airlines check-in counter in the cancun airport...





oh, and cuba was absolutely amazing! got some great records there

 

[pimlicosquirrel]

RAJ said: I would love to travel Cuba with my camera and get flicks on some aging classic car on cobblestone streets steez?










Photographers paradise, here a few from our recent trip....

 

[discos_alma]

Goddamn. Way to shut the thread down! Great photos dude. Makes me want to plan a trip.

 

[vintageinfants]

**slides iphone back into pocket**





welp, i dont think i can do better than that. pimlico chipmunk gets BUSY with the SLR. we should make a thread dedicated to yours, RAJ's and JRoot's photography.

 

[Jimster]

Superb pics, P-Squiz.





:not feeling her camel-toe:

 

[CBear]

RAJ saido they let Americans in? Or... take kindly to us? I would love to travel Cuba with my camera and get flicks on some aging classic car on cobblestone streets steez?




They love Americans in Cuba, or at least that was my experience 15 years ago. Cubans would unemphatically ask where I was traveling from and name off some possibilities. When I responded that I was from America, they got really excited and wanted to talk to me about it. They seemed to enjoy that an American would defy their government to come visit them.





I went legitimately through Miami. My crew and I said we were making a documentary and the feds let us go through Miami. This allowed me to bring back cigars and first edition books.





I did a cross-country train trip over 9 days from the east to the west. Havana was my least favorite place, although photographically very rich. I recommend getting outside of Havana if possible. Cuba was still one of my favorite places to visit.