Any botanist who has rambled around Havana and even into the Pinar del Rio mountains still hasn't seen anything until he heads toward the Eastern province, where the revelation of the Sierra Maestra flora awaits hum.
It's hard not to be enraptured by this splendid line of lomas risind languidly across the southern horizon, topped by a lovely blue swath against which the stiff foliage of Clusia rosea is outlined, like the foreground of a theatre set!
Soon, when the mist starts to flow down the loma mountainside between the Pinus occidentalis, I will have to try to capture it all in a colour photo!
From atop Loma del Gato.
Since the visit of Marie-Victorin, the Oriente Province,
which included all of eastern Cuba, was split into several provinces.
