There where the city ends, Cuba starts again. Every once in a while, when I’ve had enough of its noises, its streets and its tiring routine, I get away and heal myself with a trip to the bush. “El Canon” of the Santa Cruz River, where these pictures were taken, is one of the places that welcome people who, like me, need a retreat. In this part of Cuba the sun rises early and more times, and each leave, straw hat, each machete blade is a new experience. These escapes from the electric life of the city into the isolation of the rural night, are an act of reconstruction.
![Santa Cruz Canyon, Pinar del Río, Cuba. Photo: Amilcar Pérez Riverol](https://oncubanews.1eye.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/7.-Amilcar-Perez-Riverol.-Cañon-de-Santa-Cruz.-Pinar-del-Rio.jpg)
![Santa Cruz Canyon, Pinar del Río, Cuba. Photo: Amilcar Pérez Riverol](https://oncubanews.1eye.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15.-Amilcar-Perez-Riverol.-Cañon-de-Santa-Cruz1.jpg)
![Santa Cruz Canyon, Pinar del Río, Cuba. Photo: Amilcar Pérez Riverol](https://oncubanews.1eye.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/13.-Amilcar-Perez-Riverol.-Cañon-de-Santa-Cruz1.jpg)
![Santa Cruz Canyon, Pinar del Río, Cuba. Photo: Amilcar Pérez Riverol](https://oncubanews.1eye.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/12.-Amilcar-Perez-Riverol.-Cañon-de-Santa-Cruz1.jpg)
![Santa Cruz Canyon, Pinar del Río, Cuba. Photo: Amilcar Pérez Riverol](https://oncubanews.1eye.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/11.-Amilcar-Perez-Riverol.-Cañon-de-Santa-Cruz1.jpg)
![Santa Cruz Canyon, Pinar del Río, Cuba. Photo: Amilcar Pérez Riverol](https://oncubanews.1eye.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/5.-Amilcar-Perez-Riverol.-Cañon-de-Santa-Cruz1.jpg)
Wow! I could live there , free from all these wars, free from American machine enjoy the creation that was made for us ….