Where to fly to cuba
Americans Traveling to Cuba (first time)
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it is officially 2019 and today we are
filling our first video of the year oh
you're so excited we're starting the
year off right by traveling to our first
new country pressies we're in the back
of a taxi on the way to the airport
because today we are flying to
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well our taxi drivers disappeared yeah
the card said Phoebe one minute it's now
been five oh wow he went far down there
dan he's coming back he hasn't even
buckle his belt yeah
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in three as it turned out our taxi
driver dropped us off at Terminal 3
instead of terminal 2
I gave him last pesos as we were getting
out of the taxi so now we're walking to
terminal 2 in less than two hours so our
flight takes off we still have to figure
out how to buy an arrival card for Cuba
let's could get interesting maybe not
okay good it we're not sweating anymore
we're very calm everything's fine and we
already have our Cuban visa it was super
easy please pay for it at the gate and
the guy had me fill it up for me $25
person so before I head to the lounge
with olya take a second to answer what
we assume will be the biggest question
in this video and that is how are you as
Americans traveling to Cuba are you
doing legally are you doing illegally
you're in Cancun are you sneaking in
there are a lot of restrictions around
Americans traveling to Cuba but we are
doing it legally when Obama came into
office he made it easier for Americans
to go to Cuba and then Trump came into
office and he made it harder for
Americans to go to Cuba again but as it
stands today as long as you fall under
one of twelve categories you can travel
to Cuba leading when we're planning our
trip we had two options we could either
go as journalists or in support of the
Cuban people most Americans who are
going to Cuba will go in support of the
Cuban people which entails keeping a
full-time schedule of things like
enhance contact with the Cuban people
support civil society in Cuba promote
the Cuban people having independence
from Cuban authorities and result in
meaningful interaction with individuals
in Cuba all this according to this legal
document so because this category is
really broad that's why most people end
up traveling under this category even
though we think this is a great option
we chose to go as journalist because
that's what we do all day every day so
we felt like we had more flexibility to
make the best video possible doing that
but we do plan to support the local
every chance we get in fact in some
cases it's actually illegal not to
support the locals because there's a
very long list of places that as
Americans we can not spend money when we
go to Cuba because that money ends up
funneling straight into the pocket of
the government this includes things like
hotels tour companies restaurants we're
gonna follow those rules and I worked up
a huge appetite talking about all this
they're gonna go to the lounge and I
need some coffee because I've been up
since 5:00 a.m. this morning trying to
make the most of the internet because
we've heard that that is a luxury in
Cuba
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this is all theory at this point but
we're about to see how this plays out in
real life because we're boarding the
airplane take you back may I have your
attention please
the following is a very important group
information announcement relating to
your safety please observe the
demonstration knowing that we were gonna
have little to no internet while great
Cuba we have both just been like
absolutely crazy people this morning on
our phone on our computer an hour up
there
the Internet's gone and just like had
this calmness
I think it's gonna be really nice being
disconnected for the next seven days
either that or really frustrating we're
very dependent internet we drown
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and 55 short minutes later we have
touched out in Cuba catching up
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okay I'm trying to be discreet
we made it through customs however the
lady just walked up to me out of the
hundreds of people standing there like
an officer and she questioned me and I
think this camera
I'm being this great in Toyland the
airport probably made it through customs
everything went pretty smoothly except
for Kara being singled out in line I'm
getting asked a bunch of questions there
were literally like a hundred people
standing in this room and a lady came
right up to Karen and asked me multiple
things like more than once like what do
you do why are you here
what are you doing there
but sounds rad everything looked pretty
smooth now we just have to stand in this
really long line to get some cash
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after we change money we quickly jumped
in a taxi the head in sit down we shared
with two French girls and came down to I
don't know where we are hopefully close
to our stay one thing that you should
know if you're gonna change money in
Cuba though is that there are actually
two different currencies there's like
what they call a tourist currency and
then there's a local currency so the
tourist currency the see you see is
pegged at one to one with the US dollar
but if you change US dollar you'll pay a
10% fee plus the three percent
transaction service service fee you
basically lose 13 percent when you
change your money and then you have the
local pesos which i think is like 125th
of a dollar so he changed our money to
the tourist money and we're gonna see if
we use some local pesos later this city
is so cool
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and this is all for the next few nights
we are staying in what's known as a Casa
particular which basically just means
we're staying in a rent room in
someone's house it's like a big thing to
do here in Cuba but for us it really
doesn't feel that different because we
just booked it on Airbnb like we booked
the majority of our accommodations so
next on the agenda wandering the streets
in the dark looking for a restaurant by
our first Cuban me
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but they told me that
I'm still not sure it doesn't look like
this
vegetables with cheetah I don't
see any
the heat is on the other hand they lived
up to everything that I read about Cuba
get the chicken to be this texture it's
like it was like three days old and
they're like that won't work let's just
go as a deep fryer but each piece takes
you five minutes
you sell the week to redeem the smell
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then I get two steps to lift my hands up
quickly
reduce of coffee we got it at 5:00 this
morning to make the most Internet
we get to see it my head Scott it feels
like it's really pointing down I'm sure
everyone is wondering what shoes I got
for Christmas this year
I switched from chako's titties
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