FS: cohiba cigars

[kornstar369]

nicely written.
anyways,
gone and done...el finito
wish i cudda helped everyone ;)

Originally Posted by allblackalltrac

As Tyerone already mentioned "real" cigars should all be uniform in shade when purchasing them in a box.

FYI there are no such thing as fake Cuban cigars in Cuba, they are all real. The ones that are deemed "fake" are ones that either dont pass quality control and are either smuggled whole or partially(leaves) right out from the factory and rolled in a back room at a locals house to be sold on the black market. Even the stamps and boxes are real, they all come from the same factory, just through different "distributors".

Like Icebreg I too had the pleasure of going off the beating track when I had my stay in Cuba(Holguin). I hired a local taxi driver for the day and he took me to all the non-touristy attractions in Holguin, market square, Loma de la Cruz, including a favorite resturant that Castro sometimes vists when he's in that part of the province(didnt see him). My tour ended with a very comprehensive tour of the cigar factory in Holguin city. I got to see first hand how cigars are made, I was even fortunite enough to have a old lady that has been working in that same factory for over 40 years teach me how to "roll my own". I smoked it right there on the spot with the rest of the workers(that was deffinitly the high(pun intended) light of my trip.
If anyone is planning on visiting that province in Cuba give me a call as I still have "my contact's" info. He is the best tour guide you could ever ask for, and can get you anything you want and I mean anything.
A tip if you plan to go visit that country, try to make a contact with a local that you can trust and bring with you old clothes, Aspirin, tooth paste, soap, bandages anything that we would take for granted, that you can use to bartar and trade for local goods and supllies, you'll be suprised at what stuff like that can get you in a repressed country like Cuba.
I wont elaborate as to what I "recieved" for my barely broken in baseball glove when a kid approached me on the beach one day - but I'll say this, it was fair trade as I got a barely broken in glove myself - if you know what I mean.