When you set foot on this equatorial paradise with its abundant rain, you will feel that you have returned once again to the starting-point of the journey which you have made. In Cuba you seldom feel that the place is strange or the people around you are different. The similarity required to banish feelings of homesickness and difference is not a basic condition on this island which lies in the Caribbean Sea. Sincere smiles and the transparency of feelings are the homeland that every stranger seeks. Anything other than that is merely details that can be overcome with the passage of time