You don't want to lose another $20.
We're in Cuba.
- We're finally in Cuba. / - Brother.
- Cuba. / - We're in Cuba.
Taehun must've wanted to go there so badly.
I heard there's something special about this airport.
This airport is called Jose Marti International Airport.
From what I know, this person is the famous...
♪ Guantanamera ♪
♪ Guajira guantanamera ♪
- Guantanamera. / - The person who wrote the lyrics...
He's a poet.
I didn't know you had so much soul in you, Wonseok.
He's so excited.
He even left his luggage.
Left his luggage.
(Cuba Libre's itinerary for day 1)
It's so exciting.
We're finally in Cuba.
- Cuba Libre! / - Libre!
I can already see that the air is different.
It's in the same Caribbean Sea as Cancun.
- Look at the cars. / - The cars are so pretty.
- Do they really ride that? / - Yes, they do.
- Their taxis are like that. / - Oh, they're taxis?
- The taxis are like that? / - But you need to be careful.
They might rip you off.
This place is the center of Cuba.
The building behind us is called El Capitolio.
It's already quite obvious just by looking at it.
The U.S. used to use this
as their national assembly building.
It's currently being used as a science academy.
They've recently started to reconstruct this building.
They're going to use it as their
national assembly building again.
But I think all national assembly buildings
look the same.
Look the same.
- Don't you think so? / - Look at that.
This looks like a national assembly building.
What about that building? That looks pretty important.
Let's go take a look.
- It's pretty. / - Those kind of buildings...
- It's... / - Are everywhere in Cuba.
Gran Teatro de La Habana. So hard to memorize.
It's the Grand Theater of Habana.
- Oh, it's a theater. / - It's one of the structures...
- You must see before you die. / - They're both...
Spanish colony but it's so different to Cancun.
- My gosh, it's so pretty. / - It's a very famous building.
My gosh, this is incredible.
It's so pretty.
(The exterior was sculpted out of stone and marble)
(Very grand and beautiful)
It's very interesting because
you're able to see Europe in Latin America.
- It really does feel like Europe. / - It does.
The place we're at right now is the best place to start
your journey as a tourist in Cuba.
(Their first destination is?)
It's here.
This applies to every tourist. We need to begin with
changing money.
- Currency exchange. / - Yes, that's right.
- There are so many people here. / - It's so crowded.
(It's crowded with people)
- Everyone's here. / - All here to change money.
They're all standing in a line right now.
They're in a line right now.
But when there are a lot of people, there are no lines.
- That's when you need to do this. / - Do what?
You need to ask who's the last person.
So shout, "Ultimo."
They don't stand in a straight line.
They just wait here and there.
So you need to shout "ultimo" to ask who got here last.
And they'll put their hand up.
- You just wait behind that person. / - Really?
Then...
Ultimo!
Then...
Ultimo!
Try it.
People keep staring at us when we say ultimo.
We're last right now.
- Ultimo means last. / - Let's try it.
First, we just stand in line like this.
Let's give it try. It sounds like fun.
Let's say you're the last person in line.
Secondly...
- Ultimo. / - Ultimo.
We did it.
So that's how it works.
Foreigners use a different kind of...
Ultimo?
(I'm the last person in line)
(Now, it's him)
- See? / - Yes.
- We're doing great. / - Yes.
They're letting each other know the order.
You have to find who's it.
- You're right. / - Ask who's the last person in line.
Do you have the passport with you?
I didn't bring it.
I'm the only one who brought it.
Taehun, give me money.
I only have U.S. dollars.
Use your money.
- I'll give you some tomorrow. / - I only have U.S. dollars.
I left my wallet behind.
You are now watching...
Lee Wonseok, a famous movie director
who's preparing his new film,
changing into Cuban pesos
on a broadcast relayed from the spot
for the first time in Battle Trip.
They're hard to find because they have small signs.
They only have very small signs or no signs at all.
This is amazing.
- This is... / - How much is it?
I changed $200 Canadian.
(Cuba has a dual currency system)
As prices are low in Cuba, they have many bills.
You need 100 bills to pay $4.
There are some places who only take
CUP bills.
So you'd need some of them.
Foreign tourists can use CUP bills as well.
You should bring two wallets
so you won't get confused.
- That's what we did. / - Can't you use credit cards?
Credit cards are not accepted there.
Only hotels accept credit cards.
And the exchange commission will be added
to your credit card bill.
It's a lot.
They're both amounts to $100.
Look at the differences.
This one has a lot more bills.
I feel like a millionaire.
Now that we've exchanged the money,
we should drink.
- Let's go. / - This is the country of rum.
It's on me!
It's my treat. I'll hold the money like this.
I'll carry them in my hand like this.
Do you know where we should go?
There's a very famous bar in this neighborhood.
To tell you about these bars...
Hemingway lived in Cuba
for about 30 years.
We will go to the bar
which was Hemingway's favorite.
It's really cheap there.
- This is hard. / - It's cheap.
It's not good that you can't use a credit card there.
You can live for 3 days with $30 there.
So you don't need a credit card.
(You can walk around the streets enjoying many stalls)
The tour around this street has many names.
One of which is the Hemingway Tour.
He stayed in the hotel called Ambos Mundos
for a very long time.
The hotel looks pretty.
- It looks amazing. / - Hemingway stayed there.
He wrote his books there.
He bought a house after earning money.
There are Hemingway's favorite bars around the hotel.
He went to this bar for daiquiri and there for mojito.
Mojito.
We'll go to the daiquiri place first.
Let's go there and drink in the middle of the day.
Let's go this way.
It'll be fun just to walk around the neighborhood.
The streets are beautiful.
This is a place where time stands still
or it's a place where time passes slowly.
It feels like time has stopped for about 60 years here.
What is he doing?
He's delivering something in the bag.
(A common pulley in Cuba)
They don't have signs at all?
It's not that we decide on a destination and go there.
We just arrive there after walking down the streets.
(When will you go to the daiquiri place?)
We're like newlyweds on a honeymoon.
What's that? What are they doing?
- What's going on? / - What are they doing?
Are they dancing?
It doesn't mean he's run the business for 100 years?
That's not it.
I think the camera is 100 years old.
We should keep quiet.
Keep quiet.
(The camera is 100 years old)
- Does it work? / - Yes.
- Then he closes it. / - Did he take a photo?
- Yes. / - What?
He took a photo of us.
It doesn't have the shutter.
- That's it? / - He just uncovered the lens.
That's the photo.
That's the shutter?
You find that photographer in all travel pamphlets.
The photo is here.
- It's negative. / - He takes good pictures though.
How does it work?
I think he's playing a trick with a Polaroid.
Does he have an instant camera in here?
He's a little suspicious.
Wait.
- Something's weird. / - I want to open it.
Something's not right.
How many pictures do you need?
- How many pictures do we need? / - Two.
We need two.
He's taking a photo of it?
He's taking it again?
He's taking a photo of it again.
He should've taken a photo of us again instead.
He took a photo of the picture.
It has no switch.
He just uncovers the lens and covers it again.
That's amazing.
Maybe he's drawing it in the box.
One hand is in the box.
We don't know what he's doing.
Drawing like this?
Look at that.
- He's good. / - Polaroid.
- That's fascinating. / - This is like...
A magic show.
Something's weird.
It had only one picture in it earlier.
But now it has two pictures now. I don't understand.
It's really nice.
He took the negative again.
It looks good though.
- It looks so cool. / - So it's not an instant camera.
- It's kind of an instant camera. / - It's quite expensive.
It's $2.30.
We've walked for three blocks.
- Is it this way? / - No, it's that way.
They don't have the internet there
so you should use a map.
- That's unique. / - We haven't used that for a while.
Once I get into the center, I lose my sense of direction.
Everything looks the same.
(♪ What could be the same? ♪)
They all seem similar.
Everything is in a square block area though.
It's easy to find places.
- A restaurant? / - It's here!
- I found it. It's here. / - Right.
It says Restaurant Floridita.
Music is coming from the restaurant.
Is it a live performance?
Every restaurant in Cuba has a live band.
- In all the restaurants. / - Every restaurant in Cuba?
- Really? / - All the restaurants and bars...
- Have their own live bands. / - That's cool.
Okay.
(Once you go into Hemingway's daiquiri place)
They all play great music.
- They're great singers. / - They're really good.
- It's so... / - Cuba!
It's live music.
They don't even have a microphone.
What is daiquiri?
- It's a kind of cocktail. / - It's really exciting.
It's a cocktail made with rum
that's made with sugar cane in Cuba.
- You can also add lime in it. / - You have to try this.
- It looks good. / - It was my first time to try it.
It was amazing.
They make it with natural sugar cane extract
so it's sweet and delicious.
He's not here but
they used to have a Spanish bartender.
His daiquiri was so good
that Hemingway came here to drink his daiquiri.
Whenever Hemingway came here,
the bartender made two glasses of daiquiri.
Hemingway drank two glasses of daiquiri at once.
He was an alcoholic.
Most of the bars in Cuba are run by the government.
So the bartenders are public officials.
- They go to work at 10 a.m. / - They drink from 10.
They sell drinks from 10 in the morning.
- That's cool. / - He's made daiquiri for 30 years.
So he knows what's needed
just by the sound of the blender.
The bartenders are civil officials?
I guess he's the general manager here.
Daiquiri? Thank you very much.
Thank you.
You don't need to say much.
All you have to do is show your fingers.
You can order daiquiri without saying anything?
Sometimes he doesn't even take money.
- Why? / - Because he's too busy.
He's just a public official.
It's not his bar so he doesn't need to take money.
He just tells you to go without paying.
We went there 3 times and we didn't pay 2 times.
- What? / - Really?
It's here. Can we drink it now?
Just drink it.
It's good.
It's really good.
(Slurping once more)
It's sweet but it's not too sweet.
It has ground ice in it
so I can feel the crunchy texture of ice.
It tastes like pina colada
but it tastes similar to orange and grapefruit.
I can't feel the alcohol.
It just tastes like cold juice.
We'll get drunk soon.
I think I can drink
like 10 glasses of it.
People say Hemingway drank more than
10 shots in one sitting.
That sounds plausible.
I think I can drink 5 shots.
- Cuba! / - Libre!
Now that we drank daiquiri...
Mojito.
- It's Hemingway's favorite drink. / - Mojito!
Some people think it's a drink of the Maldives.
But it's a drink of Cuba.
It's a drink of Cuba.
Are you going for another round?
It's our second round of drinks on an empty stomach.
That must be delicious.
It's a drink started in Cuba.
It was Hemingway's favorite drink.
It's interesting. Are we drinking all day long?
It's not Battle Trip.
It's Alcohol Trip.
This is what Hemingway used to do.
He went to many rounds of drinks.
- Should we turn right here? / - Yes.
- I think so. / - There it is.
I can see people lined up only in front of it.
What's going on?
It must be a popular bar for mojito.
- Are they all lined up for mojito? / - Yes.
Are they lined up from the morning?
- They open at 10 a.m. / - It was about 11 a.m.
They open at 10...
- And it's packed. / - Since it's Hemingway.
That note over there is...
- What Hemingway wrote. / - See the frame?
That's what Hemingway wrote himself.
It says, "My daiquiri in El Floridita."
I think it's too explicit.
- Did he get paid for writing it? / - Maybe.
- It's like an advertisement. / - It absolutely is.
Cuba may be more commercialized than we think.
Are the guys in the back there to play the guitar?
Yes. They play the guitar right away.
I love the vibes.
- So many more people. / - From all over the world...
People come to taste Hemingway's favorite mojito.
It is too crowded in there.
- Let me drink it now. / - Okay. Let's drink.
- All the alcohol here is sweet. / - It is sweet.
- Is it sweet? / - It's not sweet because of sugar...
But because of sugar cane juice.
- So it's sweet yet fresh. / - Is it high in alcohol?
You can adjust the amount as you wish.
I saw the bartender put in
plenty of alcohol in here.
- I'm curious about the taste. / - It's so refreshing.
- I love mojito. / - It must be so refreshing.
(His mojito is gone in just two gulps)
It's so good.
Just one glass is too little.
Are you already done?
- But you said you can't drink. / - Yes.
But this is so sweet and tasty.
This alcohol is also great for people who can't drink.
I usually can't drink rum.
What do you mean you can't drink?
Do you remember you even drank my daiquiri?
My goodness.
Thank you, Taehun.
(Director Lee Wonseok meets the best mojito of his life)
(And starts to dance with strangers)
I thought he was drinking too much.
- He drank too much. / - It was noon...
- In the broad daylight. / - Noon?
- You're so good. / - The atmosphere is great.
- It looks fun. / - Everyone is like that.
- Everyone is like that there. / - They blow a kiss.
You can see dancing people everywhere.
It looks so exciting.
(The next location for Hemingway Tour is?)
Where are we headed now?
The highlight of the Hemingway Tour.
We're going to Ambos Mundos Hotel.
Before he bought a house in the suburbs of Havana...
He lived in this hotel for about 7 to 8 years.
- Really? / - It's the room 511, which is now...
- It's quite near. / - The museum of Hemingway.
Everything is nearby.
Let's get inside. There are many tourists here.
Look at the elevator.
- The elevator is... / - It looks cool.
- Made of steel bars. / - Gosh. I've never seen that.
(Heading to the 5th floor)
It's room 511 and it became
the museum of Hemingway now.
(The living room)
There is a single bed.
(Bedroom)
It's Louis Vuitton.
He must have liked designer brands.
Abercrombie and Fitch.
There's Abercrombie and Fitch too.
That'd sell for so much at auction.
(Useful general knowledge about Cuba)
She says Hemingway collected a lot of paintings.
He had paintings of all the famous artists.
Hemingway had the paintings of Picasso
and Gauguin.
Was he rich?
He was because he wrote a lot of books.
Hemingway had four wives.
When he died,
they fought one another to take the paintings.
- No wonder they fought for them. / - Right.
He had so many expensive paintings.
I'm curious who took the Picasso?
- Must've been the most expensive. / - This is Cezanne.
His wives fought for the paintings and took them all.
So there were no real paintings left.
- That's why they printed them out. / - Yes.
- The paintings Hemingway owned. / - If you look here...
That is his house.
There are many taxidermies.
It is said that he liked hunting so
he displayed his games at his house.
I think Hemingway was quite macho.
He was a man's man.
There is something important.
Hemingway seems to have had...
- A very big head. / - No way.
Is this the actual size?
The actual size? She says yes.
- Big head. / - Since he was a great writer.
You need a big head.
Since you can't make your head bigger,
at least make it swollen for your third movie.
- Thank you very much. / - Bye.
Hemingway was handsome.
- Very manly. / - Shouldn't we eat something?
We kept drinking without eating food at all.
Please give me some food.
- You didn't eat at all by then? / - No.
Not even a bite.
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