day 1 HAVANA.
Destinations to visit:
Havana
Transports used:
Air conditioned bus
ARRIVAL IN HAVANA
- Havana, capital of the Republic of Cuba, its largest city, the main port, its economic-cultural center and its main tourist pole.
- On your arrival you will be welcomed at Havana's airport by a representative of the Cubania agency who will be waiting for you in the arrivals area.
- Once you have collected your luggage, you will be transferred with your group to your place of accommodation. Travel to the city (approx. 30 minutes).
- Relax and enjoy your first night in Havana.
- You can have dinner in town a short walking distance away (dinner not included).
day 2 HAVANA.
Destinations to visit:
Havana
Transports used:
American classic cars
Classic Car Tour and Havana Walking Tour
- Breakfast in the morning.
- We begin with a classic American car tour of the city in the 1950s.
- We will visit the affluent 1950's Miramar neighborhood, former home of Cuba's upper class before 1959, see sumptuous mansions and houses with swimming pools, large courtyards and other amenities, many of which are now embassies.
- We will continue to the Museum of the Revolution and to the Plaza de la Revolución, the scene of numerous landmark events in Cuban history.
- We will drive along the famous Malecón Avenue to the Historic Center of the City, where the cars will drop us off at the Museum of Rum for a brief visit to see how Cuba's most famous drink, "Havana Club", is made.
- Lunch at a local restaurant and at the end we begin our walking tour of La Habana Vieja.
- We will walk through the main historical places of interest, cobbled streets, the 4 foundational squares, we will see wonderful monuments, cathedrals and imposing buildings.
- Free time in the city.
- You can have dinner at your home if you wish or in the old town. (Dinner not included).
day 3 HAVANA.
Destinations to visit:
Havana
Transports used:
Without transportation
**Free day for you to continue exploring Havana
- Breakfast
- Free day to explore the city at your leisure, you can continue to tour the old town or venture into Centro Habana or the Vedado.
- You are free to choose where to have lunch or dinner at your home or at the many local restaurants available as these are not included in the tour.
- Enjoy and delight yourself with life and magic in the Wonder City
day 4 CALETA BUENA-CIENFUEGOS
Destinations to visit:
Caleta Buena, Playa Girón, Matanzas
Cienfuegos
Transports used:
Air conditioned bus
SWIMMING AT CALETA BUENA EN ROUTE TO CIENFUEGOS
- Breakfast and departure to Cienfuegos.
- We will transit through the Cienaga de Zapata National Park and the Bay of Pigs, crossing the entire bay while enjoying the beautiful Caribbean Sea until we reach Caleta Buena.
- Stop for lunch in Caleta Buena (not included) and take a bath in its natural pool of transparent waters where you can see fish of many colors.
- We continue our trip to Cienfuegos to tour the city, founded in 1819 by the French in Latin America under the Spanish crown, a city of parks, theaters, churches, a beautiful Paseo del Prado, a boardwalk that borders the beautiful bay of Jagua and a thriving culture, you can also enjoy the beauty of the sea and nature surrounding the city.
- Accommodation in the city.
- Free night for your enjoyment.
day 5 TRINIDAD.
Destinations to visit:
Trinidad, Santic Spíritus
Transports used:
Air conditioned bus
VISIT EL NICHO WATERFALL, THEN TO TRINIDAD
- Desayuno y dejamos Cienfuegos dirigiéndonos a la Sierra del Escambray, hacia nuestro destino: El Nicho, una maravilla de la naturaleza, decenas de cascadas y estanques naturales en un paraje prácticamente virgen, escondido entre las montañas.
- Disfrute de este entorno natural y refrésquese en las piscinas naturales del sitio.
- Almuerzo campestre
- Continuamos hacia Trinidad, una de las más bellas, históricas y mejores conservadas ciudades de Cuba fue una de las primeras Villas fundadas por los Españoles y declarada por la UNESCO Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad. Sus calles adoquinadas llenas de tradición e historia le harán sentir y vivir la experiencia de estar en una Ciudad detenida por el tiempo llena de valores patrimoniales, históricos y culturales que develan épocas, costumbres y tradiciones.
- Playa Ancón, es uno de los destinos naturales que ofrece la visita a la joya colonial de Cuba, Trinidad. se encuentra ubicada a sólo 15 minutos en coche del centro de la ciudad.
- Nos registramos en nuestro alojamiento local a la llegada y hacemos un recorrido por la ciudad de Trinidad
- Noche libre para su disfrute (la cena no está incluida).
day 6 TRINIDAD.
Destinations to visit:
Trinidad, Santic Spíritus
Transports used:
Without transportation
FREE DAY IN TRINIDAD
Free day for your enjoyment, explore the city of Trinidad and its surroundings. Our recommendations are:
- Visit the Valley of the Sugar Mills and take a trip on the steam train that runs through it.
- Many places organize horseback riding tours. The best one is led by Julio Muñoz who guarantees tame and well cared for horses (he is a horse whisperer) and provides good quality saddles and helmets for everyone.
- Excursion to Topes de Collantes, a very beautiful place, where you can enjoy Cuban nature in its purest form and enjoy guided walks around the place.
- Take the day trip by catamaran to an uninhabited island.
- Or simply relax on the beach, located only 12 km from the city center.
day 7 TRINIDAD- SANTA CLARA
Destinations to visit:
Santa Clara, Villa Clara
Trinidad, Santic Spíritus
Transports used:
Air conditioned bus
WALK IN ESCAMBRAY MOUNTAINS
- Breakfast and departure to Topes de Collantes, located in the Escambray mountains, one of the natural wonders of all times, exquisitely preserved, for the fans of ecological tourism and for all those in love with the many beauties of Cuba.
- Upon arrival, we change to a local vehicle to go to the beginning of the Guanayara trail that takes us deep into the forest, passing through fruit and coffee plantations.
- Half way we reach the El Rocio waterfall and a beautiful natural pool where you can take a refreshing bath.
- Lunch at a country restaurant
- Departure to Santa Clara, about 2 hours by bus. Its main attraction is the Plaza de la Revolución where you can find the sculpture group dedicated to Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Che), work of the sculptor José Delarra. In its base there is a Mausoleum, where the remains of a renowned hero have rested since 1997.
- Accommodation in the City, free night for your enjoyment.
day 8 LAS TERRAZAS
Destinations to visit:
Las Terrazas, Artemisa
Transports used:
Air conditioned bus
SWIM IN THE SAN JUAN RIVER IN LAS TERRAZAS
- Early breakfast.
- Departure to Las Terrazas, a Biosphere Reserve hidden in the Sierra del Rosario, one hour by car from Havana. In Las Terrazas the forests are always green, the rivers and waterfalls are crystal clear. To enter the community is to have the certainty that there really are impressive places.
- Late lunch at a local restaurant.
- After lunch free time to tour the place either walking in the hills or swimming in the crystal clear waters of the San Juan River.
- Accommodation and free night for your enjoyment.
day 9 LAS TERRAZAS- VIÑALES
Destinations to visit:
Las Terrazas, Artemisa
Viñales, Pinar del Río
Transports used:
Air conditioned bus
OPTION TO TRY ZIP-LINING THEN TRAVEL TO VIÑALES
- Breakfast
- We head to the Canopy station (optional) where thousands of people from Cuba and the world have seen from the heights, the beautiful landscape of the community. An exciting way to see the beauty of the lush landscape through 5 steel cables of 1500m.
- We continue to Viñales where we check in at your accommodation, free time to explore the picturesque village.
- You can have dinner at your home in Viñales or in one of the restaurants on the main street of the town (dinner is not included).
- Free night for your enjoyment.
day 10 VIÑALES
Destinations to visit:
Viñales, Pinar del Río
Transports used:
Without transportation
EXPLORE THE FAMOUS TOBACCO GROWING REGION
- Breakfast
- We went for a walk in El Valle de Viñales, an ideal place to contemplate and admire the beauty of the Cuban landscape, it has mountainous formations, unique in the Island, called mogotes. These mogotes are very unique geomorphological formations, with a great diversity of shapes, in some cases measuring hundreds of meters in height.
- The Viñales Valley stands out for having the best tobacco plantations in the world. It is here that tobacco plants are carefully harvested using traditional methods to create the world-class cigars for which Cuba is so famous. We will travel through the fields of tobacco and tropical fruits and stop at a local fruit farm where you can taste the natural juices before climbing up the mountainside to reach a natural tunnel that leads to another valley.
- In the afternoon you can tour the village of Viñales or get a day pass to enjoy the pool at the Hotel La Ermita.
- At night, enjoy live music in one of the bars on the main street of Viñales.
day 11 VIÑALES - CAYO LEVISA
Destinations to visit:
Cayo Levisa, Pinar del Río
Transports used:
Air conditioned bus , Ferry
CUEVA DEL INDIO, THEN BOAT TO CAYO LEVISA
- Breakfast and departure to Viñales valley, in this opportunity we will visit Cueva del Indio, a natural cave with diverse forms and figures formed by stalactites and stalagmites, in this place paintings and remains of the utensils and burials of the pre-Columbian Cuban cultures have been found. The most attractive part of it is the boat trip through the subway river that crosses it.
- We depart from Viñales to Palma Rubia where a boat will take you to Cayo Levisa, a beach with no urbanizations and almost completely solitary, although with accommodation and facilities for customers. In this place you can practice among other marine sports diving and snokerling in the coral reef that flanks it to the north at approximately 2000 meters from its coast, with well preserved coral formations and have a massive colony of starfish and gorgonians and an abundant and varied marine fauna.
- Accommodation, lunch and dinner in Cayo Levisa.
day 12 CAYO LEVISA
Destinations to visit:
Cayo Levisa, Pinar del Río
Transports used:
Without transportation
FULL DAY IN CAYO LEVISA
- Free day to enjoy the facilities of the Hotel and relax on the beach.
day 13 CAYO LEVISA
Destinations to visit:
Cayo Levisa, Pinar del Río
Transports used:
Without transportation
ANOTHER FULL DAY IN CAYO LEVISA
- Free day to enjoy the facilities of the Hotel and relax on the beach.
day 14 CAYO LEVISA- HAVANA.
Destinations to visit:
Havana
Transports used:
Air conditioned bus , Ferry
RETURN TO HAVANA
- Breakfast and departure to take the boat back to Palma Rubia.
- Return to Havana for your last night in the capital.
- You should arrive in time for a late lunch and time for a last minute exploration of the old town (lunch and dinner not included today).
day 15 HAVANA.
Destinations to visit:
Havana
Transports used:
Air conditioned bus
DAY OF DEPARTURE
- Free morning at your disposal, you can make some final explorations of old Havana or some last minute souvenir shopping
- End of our program.
- Afternoon transfer (30-40 minutes aprox.) to Havana airport in time for check-in 3 hours before departure.
- All our team wishes you a good trip and we hope you had a wonderful experience in Cuba.
