Day two of the Habanos Festival started much the same as the first: with me waking up at 4:30 a.m., getting ready and taking a cab to a government building in order to board a bus that would take us to the Pinar del Río province, which is the westernmost region of Cuba. After waiting for more than an hour—hey, it’s Cuba—the bus finally arrived and all of the journalists that signed up for the trip climbed aboard. We were told it would take about 2 1/2 hours, but unfortunately, the trip actually clocked in at three hours and 45 minutes. We were let off the bus and walked about three-quarters of a mile to some tobacco fields and curing barns, along with a place outside for everyone to sit and smoke. I lagged behind the group to take some photos, and as a result ran across some of the farmers working on one of their tractors, which I photographed before moving on. I have been to tobacco fields in both Nicaragua (many times) and the Dominican Republic (once), and to be honest, there are not many differences between all three places. The barns look a bit different, there were more domesticated animals running ...
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