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Ministry of the Interior Building
The face of Che Guevara. It says, "Hasta la Victoria Siempre" (Until the everlasting victory).
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Ministry of Communications Building
The face of Camilo Cienfuegos. It says, "Vas bien Fidel" (You're doing fine, Fidel).
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Plaza de la Revolution
Revolution Square. Osmin is telling us about the revolution and FIdel Castro. Revolution Square is used for large gatherings. It's…
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Cool
Even if they were for tourists, we still took a ton of pictures of the cars. Some were restored pretty nicely, some looked good fr…
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Classic Taxi
Our tour guide told us that the classic cars were for the tourists only. Not a lot of people owned classic cars, they own Russian…
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Museum of the Revolution
A lot of pictures from today are going to be taken from the bus. We covered a lot in 8 hours. We did get out a few times.
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Best of Havana
We were on the "Best of Havana" tour. It was 8 hours long and covered our person-to-person requirements! Our guide was named Osmin…
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Money line
The next stop after passing the visa and health screen was the money line. They asked only one person per group stand in line for…
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In Havana!
To get off the ship we had to pre-buy a visa. We bought ours through the cruise line. As Americans We were required to do 8 hours…
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Tour time!
Once the ship stopped it was time to meet up with our tour. We had to meet in the theater and wait for our tour to leave.
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Ultimate VIP tour pass
We hadn't had a chance to take a picture of our tour passes. Our tour also included lunch at Vernon's BBQ. We took a picture while…
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Famous gold belt
You've probably seen the press conference. Elvis is wearing a baby blue suit at the International Hotel. A female reporter asks hi…
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Elvis' clothes
They showed us one of Elvis'shirts. We couldn't touch it. I'm sure they thought someone would take a piece of it home with them. T…
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Having fun!
Everyone else just held the microphone. Bill was the only one that had some fun with it.
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Ultimate VIP tour
The regular tour ended in the trophy room. We got the Ultimate VIP Tour. They escorted us to a private lounge, gave us white glove…
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Gold & platinum records
In addition to these there were Elvis' Grammys, and the award for being one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation in 1971…
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Trophy room
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Black Spanish Flower 2
There's one in red (1) and one in green (2).
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Gold records
Elvis' gold records from 1956-1959.
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Gold lamé suit
And his Gibson guitar. The last time we were at Graceland this was all in the racquetball court and there were just a few suits. N…
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Groovy!