Walking Cuba: El Camino del Cimarron

Walking to Viñas on the Tracks Zulueta Built

An hour after lunch we find ourselves in the first forested area of the Camino. The leaves on the ground give the path an orange carpet that almost tricks you into feeling a crispness of a phantom autumn air. An amber hue smoothes the surfaces of tree trunks and blurs like tinted glass over the leaves on the ground. All green fades into the background as the orange spreads its glow from the ground to the trunks and higher. It has not rained in weeks but the moisture, or its memory, cools the…