CUBA TOURS
ENJOY THE ESSENTIALS OF CUBA
Day 1 ARRIVAL in HAVANA Arrive in the afternoon in Havana, welcomed by your local English-speaking guide. We drive 30 minutes to your hotel and check in the lodging of your choice. Evening at leisure to relax.
Day 2 HAVANA VISITS in STYLE
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A 10 days tour to visit the essence of Cuba with Havana, Viñales, Trinidad and Varadero beach. Great local experiences like driving in a convertible classic American vintage, visiting tobacco farmers, swimming in a waterfall, sleeping in the house of a local, driving in a bike-taxi. Tour to enjoy with nice surprising meals, lots of life music and time at the beach.
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Your guide will pick you up at the hotel for your city tour. Experience Havana while riding a classic American vintage car with open roof. Drive through the areas of Miramar with a stop at Mahatma Ghandi Park, drive through the areas of Miramar with a stop at Mahatma Ghandi Park, through Vedado with a stop at the Plaza de la Revolucion and going through the Paseo and Presidentes boulevards. You drive along Havana Malecon to the view point over the city from Morro Castle. Enjoy lunch at the Hemingway restaurant Bodeguita del Medio. Try the Cuban creole cuisine of rice and black beans served with pork, fresh vegetables and potatoes. The meal includes a mojito cocktail which was invented in this place. There is band playing life traditional Cuban Music. In the afternoon take a walk with the guide in Old Havana along colonial streets and squares. You stop at the Plaza de la Catedral, Plaza de Armas, Plaza Vieja and Plaza San Francisco. Evening at leisure. (B – L)
Day 3 VIÑALES and the TOBACCO Drive to the area of Viñales, a very beautiful
rural area where the best tobacco in the world grows, then visit a cigar factory in the city of Pinar del Rio. Afterwards, visit the view point over the valley from Jasmines hotel. Proceed to a tobacco farm and learn about the process that is done in the fields to produce to the perfect tobacco. You visit the Mural of the Prehistory. In the afternoon, you will visit the village of Viñales. Return in the afternoon (6 hours’ drive). Dinner tonight is at hotel Nacional de Cuba in the stately gourmet restaurant Comedor de Aguiar. Afterwards, you enjoy the Carribbean show at the Parisien Cabaret in the hotel. (B – D)
Day 4 The INTERIOR of CUBA with CIENFUEGOS and TRINIDAD You leave Havana today and drive to the city of Cienfuegos. Here you visit the historic center of this colonial town founded by French colonists. Marvel at the Parque Marti with the cathedral and the Theatre Terry, a traditional 19th century theatre building. You visit the area of Punta Gorda with nice buildings of the turn of the century (19th to 20th Century) like Palacio Valle. In the afternoon you head to Trinidad. On arrival, stroll through the amazing Old Center passing by colonial squares like Plaza Mayor and the small cobbled stoned streets. Spend the night in the lodging of your choice within the historic city center. Dinner at the hotel. (B – D)
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