The Hike into the Sierra Maestra Mountains

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Waging a guerrilla war against the Batista dictatorship, Fidel and his young band of rebels hid out in the Sierra Maestra mountains in the late 1950s. Their base camp was never discovered, but we were able to hike a trail through remote cloud forest up to Comandancia de la Plata, the command post where Fidel planned the revolution that was to change Cuba forever. It's a fascinating glimpse of history.

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