President Barack Obama has begun a historic three day trip to the Cuban capital Havana in what marks a historic visit that would have been all but unimaginable just a few years ago.
Obama is the first sitting American president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge arrived on a battleship in 1928.
President Obama braved a 'tropical downpour' on the first day of his official three-day state visit to Cuba.
Accompanied by his family Obama grabbed an umbrella and set off to see sights, including the Museum of the City of Havana, as he tried to squeeze as much into his short but historic trip as possible.
The visit marks the first US presidential trip to Cuba in 88 years.
A joint news conference for the USA and Cuba ended abruptly as long-standing tensions between the two countries were laid bare.
The US president will hold talks with Raul Castro as part of a trip that would have been all but unimaginable just a few years ago.
Cuba's capital has played host to foreign leaders before, but the US president's visit marks an historic change in US-Cuban relations.