Cuba Day 3 - Camaguey Colonial - 1st stop - Ingenio Santa Isabel (Sugar Mill).

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Cuba Day 1.

 Cuba Day 2.

Cuba Day 3.

On day 3 we went out on excursion to Camaguey Colonial(City). 

Camagüey.
Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. After almost continuous attacks from pirates the original city (founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe around 1515 on the northern coast) was moved inland in 1528. The new city was built with a confusing lay-out of winding alleys that made it easier to defend it from any raiders. There are many blind alleys and forked streets that lead to squares of different sizes. There is only one exit from the city; should pirates ever return and succeed in entering the city, the hope was that the local inhabitants would be able to entrap and kill them.
In July 2008, the old town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Source.

Price - 46(adult), 26(child) in CUBA peso.  Hours - 8.00am to 5.30pm.

 

 After breakfast. While we were waiting for our bus. We saw this wandering crab.

Camaguey Colonial - 1st stop - Ingenio Santa Isabel (Sugar Mill).

Ingenio Santa Isabel. Today the resort hotel chain Palmares, located in the community of Santa Isabel (road), in Santa Lucia . It is characteristic of the site preparing to serve the coffee in espresso making to stir spoon instead of a piece of cane harvested in the same wit the attention of every visitor. Source.

You don't want to stay here very long coz, there were lots of mosquito here.

It was Francisco de Quesada and Aguero who built in the late eighteenth century this mill on their land. Its name comes from one of his daughters is named Isabel de Quesada died in 1822 and the Ingenio passed to her widower Martin del Castillo Betancourt. For several years the place was not to be moved by pulling a mill equipped with charge of working Jamaican sugar and its derivatives. On more than one occasion was mortgaged by its owner at large sum of money in the years 1826 , 1829 , 1835 from last year appears recognized as grinding mill and sugar already in 1873 had 40 cavalry of land bounded.

 

Martin del Castillo Betancourt sold the mill to his son Martin Quesada castle with 26 slaves and other waxing endowment. In 1859 , along with Angel Castillo referred Agramante ingenuity acquired through his farm Baquilla Juana located southeast of the city of Port au Prince with 65 slaves, it was valued at 12 000.00 100 000.00 pesos and must be committed to pay annual 20 000.00 .

The new owner machines imported American and updated manufacturing process thereby taking advantage of the plentiful natural river Saramanguacán , whose margins had been built. These techniques undoubtedly increased the yield and production of the mill. Source.

 Giant pot?.

 Hello!! anybody there??.

 My 2 wandering kids.

Sugar Cane Field.

 My boys.

 Amazing huh?.

 Looks scary to go down hehe.

 My big boy took this picture. He think the rusty part was so cool.

 My big boy said, "Look mommy, 2 big eyes and small mouth".

 Oh yes!. In CUBA you will see more this kind of car. Cool huh?.

My little darling AB. We hopped back on the bus and went to the next stop.

To be continue...