 Parade RestWed. January 6, 2016, 3:22pm: Forty minutes into the parade, these costumed women took a rest to smoke and fan away the sticky heat. The 6 de enero parade celebrates Epiphany and commemorates a successful 1896 rebel invasion of La Habana during the war for independence; it also combines many distinct Afro-Cuban cultural elements in an hours-long loop of the old city. |  A Night Under the StarsWed. January 6, 2016, 9:04pm: Tropicana is an internationally famous cabaret "Under the Stars;" tonight it was raining, and we waited on the bus to see if we could still get in. |  TricolorSun. January 3, 2016, 10:56am: On my second visit to Alina's house, I discovered yet another well of light. |  SunriseMon. January 11, 2016, 7:07am: The sun rises on the third floor of an enormous, mostly-vacant hotel in the middle of the mountains outside Trinidad. |
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