Summary Beginning of the journey in Havana: in 2016 Cuba has received 4 millions of tourists.Sophie meets Pablo Miguel Quintana Rodiguez who has a guest house (casa particular), later she meets Sandra Lorenzo who has also a guest house with three rooms for tourists.Later Sophie goes to Viñales and will stay in the farm of Roberto Ordaz and his wife Haydelis Gonzales.Finally in Trinidad Sophie stays in the house of Sara.In Havana Sophie will discover the old town with Joel Delleri who drives a bike-taxi: the Old Town, the Capitol, la "Casa del Agua" where she drinks fresh well water.She will also meet Carlos Campos, the owner of a 1955 Chevrolet who is restoring old American cars: so the tourists may enjoy a ride through the city in these restored cars (Ford Farlaine 1956 for example).Other people are also living from tourism such as the street artists Carmen and Migdalia or Eliazar Jimenez who sells painted souvenirs.Then we have the stay of Sophie in Viñales: Roberto shows Sophie how the harvest the tobacco leaves and he will teach Sophie to roll tobacco leaves: later they make a horse through the countryside:Roberto, Haydelis and their daughter Rosmery enjoy to receive tourists at the farm.Later Sophie takes a train in the "Valle de los Ingenios" crossing a sugar cane area (Unesto world heritage site).In Trinidad Sophie meets Victor Echenagusia, a curator of the town who shows her restored colonial house.Near Trinidad Sophie enjoys snorkeling with Ernesto, a diving coach and with Yoyandis Garcoia Sophie will see the "Cienaga de Zapata biosphere reserve (6.000 square kilometers , the largest wetland reserve in the Caribbean (great egrets, little blue herons, pink flamingos, cormorants: beside the government has a crocodile farm to reintroduce the Cuban crocodile into the biosphere reserve. This journey has also its cultural and social moments: dancing salsa in Trinidad and the quinceanera feasts of two Cuban 15 years old adolescents.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Ismaël Khelifa Raphaël de Casabianca Sophie Jovillard Jérôme Pitorin
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Mar 24, 2017
Countries of origin : France
Official sites : Bo Travail ! France 5
Language : French
Production companies : France Télévisions France 5 Bo Travail
Summary Beginning of the journey in Havana: in 2016 Cuba has received 4 millions of tourists.Sophie meets Pablo Miguel Quintana Rodiguez who has a guest house (casa particular), later she meets Sandra Lorenzo who has also a guest house with three rooms for tourists.Later Sophie goes to Viñales and will stay in the farm of Roberto Ordaz and his wife Haydelis Gonzales.Finally in Trinidad Sophie stays in the house of Sara.In Havana Sophie will discover the old town with Joel Delleri who drives a bike-taxi: the Old Town, the Capitol, la "Casa del Agua" where she drinks fresh well water.She will also meet Carlos Campos, the owner of a 1955 Chevrolet who is restoring old American cars: so the tourists may enjoy a ride through the city in these restored cars (Ford Farlaine 1956 for example).Other people are also living from tourism such as the street artists Carmen and Migdalia or Eliazar Jimenez who sells painted souvenirs.Then we have the stay of Sophie in Viñales: Roberto shows Sophie how the harvest the tobacco leaves and he will teach Sophie to roll tobacco leaves: later they make a horse through the countryside:Roberto, Haydelis and their daughter Rosmery enjoy to receive tourists at the farm.Later Sophie takes a train in the "Valle de los Ingenios" crossing a sugar cane area (Unesto world heritage site).In Trinidad Sophie meets Victor Echenagusia, a curator of the town who shows her restored colonial house.Near Trinidad Sophie enjoys snorkeling with Ernesto, a diving coach and with Yoyandis Garcoia Sophie will see the "Cienaga de Zapata biosphere reserve (6.000 square kilometers , the largest wetland reserve in the Caribbean (great egrets, little blue herons, pink flamingos, cormorants: beside the government has a crocodile farm to reintroduce the Cuban crocodile into the biosphere reserve. This journey has also its cultural and social moments: dancing salsa in Trinidad and the quinceanera feasts of two Cuban 15 years old adolescents.
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Mar 24, 2017
Countries of origin : France
Official sites : Bo Travail ! France 5
Language : French
Production companies : France Télévisions France 5 Bo Travail