Vinales is located at the province of Pinar del Rio

The town of Vinales is located at the province of Pinar del Rio and is the main tobacco growing part in Cuba

The first time we visited the town there were no souvenirs to buy but now the street near the church was filled with souvenir stalls

We like to look at the Cuban people and they like to look at the tourists…

On the square was played music

Pinar del Rio is known for its cigar factories and rum factory where

Guayabita-rum is made

Residents of this area are often called Pinareños

The name Pinar del Río is derived from the many pine trees that were planted by the Spaniards along the River Rio

Even on road signs is a lack in Cuba but they have found a solution ... 

just painting itself

We visited a tobacco plantation in the Viñales valley

We visited a tobacco plantation in the Viñales valley

The tobacco farmer told us about the process of tobacco cultivation and showed us how he rolled a cigar

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The Viñales valley is growing, according to experts,

the best tobacco of the World

Since 1999 this valley is on the World Heritage List of UNESCO

The Pinar del Río province covers an area of ​​10.860 km ², has over 726.000 inhabitants and is situated in the extreme west of Cuba

Pinar del Río is, with seventy to eighty percent of the Cuban tobacco production, the main supplier of this famous Cuban product

The provincial capital is therefore called the

"Tobacco Capital of Cuba”

During the growth the flowers are cut out, so all the nutrients benefit to the leaves

Because not all the leaves are ripe at the same time, they are plucked one by one

The leaves are after harvesting bundled in size and structure and hung out to dry in a well ventilated tobacco barn

This causes the tobacco brew (ferment)

This process takes about 10 weeks and then the tobacco originated is often a little bitter

To improve the taste different varieties of tobacco are mixed

with each other

We were invited to drink a delicious cup of Cuban coffee and were allowed to see his house