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Hot Sunny Day and Restaurant Bar

existential crisis: It was a hot sunny day, as is frequently the case in Cuba, and a horde of us resort refugees were swarming the countryside in jeeps on our way to a lovely half-hour trip down an isolated river, according to NOW Magazine. Getting out of the jeeps at a little restaurant/bar where our boats were located, we were told something special had been planned for us. It not a place where you'd expect to experience a slight, if annoying, artistic and existential crisis of Aboriginal proportions. That something was the performance of an Indigenous dance performed by two men and four women in body paint and identical long black wigs. When she came to life, all six proceeded to thank the gods by doing some more oddly contemporary dancing for the tourists. One of the women was lying on the dock, and a male dancer came up to her and did some sort of magical hand movements over her as the rest sang and danced. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.