For the uninitiated, Cuba can be hot, loud, flamboyant and spectacular all at the same time.
It can also be maddeningly difficult. And that brings us to Yasiel Puig, who is frequently all of those things as well.
But while Puig is of Cuba, until this week he hadn't been in Cuba for nearly five years. And that seemed like an eternity to Yoan Hernandez, Puig's half brother.
"I missed him," Hernandez said Wednesday, a day after an emotional reunion.
When Puig left Cuba to seek riches in the major leagues, the family he left behind knew it might never see him again.