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Photos: Inventive Cubans use a mobile pool to beat the scorching heat

In the aptly named El Infernal neighbourhood in the province of Pinar del Rio, part of Cuba's renowned tobacco-growing zone, locals are using a mobile pool in a tractor to get respite from the heat. The neighborhood – that is far from recreation centres -- community members helped to make the idea of the tractor-pool a reality, lending tarps, providing water and paying for the tractor's gasoline. The tractor in El Infernal also is occasionally pressed into service as an ambulance in an area with few motor vehicles.

Updated on: Sep 02, 2019 5:48 PM IST

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A girl holds on to the ropes of a swimming pool created in the bed of a tractor trailer at the El Infernal neighbourhood in San Andres in the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba. In a neighbourhood far from recreation centres, community members helped to make the idea of the tractor pool a reality, lending tarps, providing water and paying for the tractor's gasoline. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

Updated on Sep 02, 2019 5:48 PM

A girl holds on to the ropes of a swimming pool created in the bed of a tractor trailer at the El Infernal neighbourhood in San Andres in the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba. In a neighbourhood far from recreation centres, community members helped to make the idea of the tractor pool a reality, lending tarps, providing water and paying for the tractor's gasoline. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

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Children cycle to a tractor trailer that has been converted into a swimming pool in the El Infernal neighbourhood. The idea for the mobile tractor-pool was hatched by local parents Mariset Martinez and Yamian Válido on July 26, to make their kids happy and fight the harsh Caribbean heat in the aptly named settlement. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

Updated on Sep 02, 2019 5:48 PM

Children cycle to a tractor trailer that has been converted into a swimming pool in the El Infernal neighbourhood. The idea for the mobile tractor-pool was hatched by local parents Mariset Martinez and Yamian Válido on July 26, to make their kids happy and fight the harsh Caribbean heat in the aptly named settlement. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

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Children play as they wait for a tractor trailer to be converted into a swimming pool. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

Updated on Sep 02, 2019 5:48 PM

Children play as they wait for a tractor trailer to be converted into a swimming pool. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

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“We want to keep the kids happy in our community and this costs nothing.” said Hipolito Marraron, the president of the cooperative that lent the tractor, with the condition that it could only be used if it wasn’t needed by the agricultural workers. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

Updated on Sep 02, 2019 5:48 PM

“We want to keep the kids happy in our community and this costs nothing.” said Hipolito Marraron, the president of the cooperative that lent the tractor, with the condition that it could only be used if it wasn’t needed by the agricultural workers. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

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A family sitting in the shade watches as a tractor that pulls a trailer-turned-pool where children swim, drives past outside their home. The tractor in El Infernal also is occasionally pressed into service as an ambulance in an area with few motor vehicles. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

Updated on Sep 02, 2019 5:48 PM

A family sitting in the shade watches as a tractor that pulls a trailer-turned-pool where children swim, drives past outside their home. The tractor in El Infernal also is occasionally pressed into service as an ambulance in an area with few motor vehicles. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

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Children swimming in the trailer converted into a pool playfully splash a man carrying a puppy. After operators explained some rules to the swimmers, the tractor-pool made its first successful trip, as children splashed their neighbours to encourage them to join the party — a party that became the main attraction in a poor but resourceful neighbourhood. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

Updated on Sep 02, 2019 5:48 PM

Children swimming in the trailer converted into a pool playfully splash a man carrying a puppy. After operators explained some rules to the swimmers, the tractor-pool made its first successful trip, as children splashed their neighbours to encourage them to join the party — a party that became the main attraction in a poor but resourceful neighbourhood. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

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For this horse, which cannot join the revellers in the mobile pool, his owner cools him down in a lagoon in the neighbourhood. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

Updated on Sep 02, 2019 5:48 PM

For this horse, which cannot join the revellers in the mobile pool, his owner cools him down in a lagoon in the neighbourhood. (Ramon Espinosa / AP)

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