Cuba: Day Three - Botanical Gardens and Solar Energy

The National Botanic Gardens of Cuba was a combination of educational, scientific and recreational institution. The grounds bolstered plants and trees from all around the world; kinda like a plant zoo. The place was somewhat what interesting, but seem to lack the internal funds for capital investment, as did most of Cuba.

The Botanical Garden did have an excellent vegetarian restaurant that prepared a great vegetarian lunch for us. Vegetables were very scarce in Cuba, not because they could not be grown, but it seemed like Cubans weren't interested in eating them. Our meals during our stay mostly consisted of meat and starch, either rice or potatoes. However, our host did make an effort to provide a few vegetarian meals. I’m guessing mostly due to prior guest complaining about the lack of vegetables with the standard Cuban meal.