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| PROGRAM OVERVIEW |
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You stay in the elegant Hotel Telégrafo in heart of Old Havana, near the Ballet and the Malecón. |
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| CITIES AND SITES VISITS |
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Ancient and modern Havana |
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Havana's white sand eastern beaches |
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Las Terrazas eco-community |
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| TOUR HIGHLIGHTS |
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Private guided walking tour of Old Havana, and guided luxury coach tour of Modern Havana |
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Evening performance of Alicia Alonso's Ballet Nacional de Cuba! |
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Tour the Museum of Modern Art and meet contemporary artists |
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Evening venues where the best Cuban music is performed |
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Swim in the warm waters and sunbathe on white sand beaches of Playas del Este, a gay haunt |
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Meet painter and ceramist José Fuster at his whimsical home studio |
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An evening at Bar de Las Estrellas Cabaret to enjoy Havana's best drag performers |
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Visit a Havana cigar factory where you'll learn the secrets of the craft |
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Visit the Scale Model of Havana with world-renowned architect Dr Mario Coyula Cowley |
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Meet with CENESEX and Línea Ayuda, volunteer organizations focused on sex education, equality, and HIV prevention |
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| Cuba Culture and Discovery Tour for Mature Gays |
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| Friday 17 April to Saturday 25 April 2009, limited enrollment |
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| Enjoy music, dance, art and cuisine in the Pearl of the Caribbean |
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| Meet with island organizations working for sexual equality |
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| Experience Havana's rich heritage: architecture, museums, galleries, ballet, hot Latin jazz, and nature |
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MY NAME IS MAIKEL FEBLES. I am from Havana and a friend of Cuba Education Tours. I am happy you are coming Cuba to learn about my culture and country. I know you'll enjoy its wonderful architecture, music, dance, museums, nature and people. There are many positive changes taking place now, especially for gays. Wishing you a great time! |
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This program is fully escorted from the minute you touch down in Havana until you return home. While on the island you're in the conscientious care of an expert multilingual Cuban guide together with our professional bus chauffeur. Our Canadian and Cuban staff ensures worry free Cuba travel before, during and after your tour. |
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Time to commit. This tour is limited in size and fills up fast (see costs). Consider registering now. Shy, budget-minded or independent? There are benefits to group Cuba travel.
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| Hint BLUE text links across this site offer extensive details and pictures. |
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USA travelers This program is legal and licensable for professionals whose work is related to this tour's theme. LegalCubaTravel.com provides an easy step-by-step application kit. If you don't qualify for licensed travel there are alternatives! Contact us. |
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| Travel for change Cuba Education Tours is a Vancouver Canada based organization dedicated to green, ethical travel that benefits Cubans and our guests. |
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 Five star treatment round-the-clock from our Cuban and Canadian staff ensures worry free travel abroad. |
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| Included in costs are all activities listed below unless noted otherwise. |
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Island transportation You travel in a private luxury tour coach chauffeured by a professional driver. |
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| Meals B=breakfast L=lunch D=dinner indicates meals included. Breakfasts are complementary on this tour. Your guide is glad to suggest eateries for every taste and budget for lunches and dinners not included. |
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Getting to Cuba Call 1-877-687-3817 toll free or email us. We can help. |
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| Memories of Cuba last forever. Discover the island on routes less traveled. |
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| SEE EACH TRIP DAY |
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| Musician and dancers in Havana, both are pervasive across the city. |
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| Most common questions 1 Is Cuban food good? It's healthy and tasty but not spicy. 2 Am I free to ask any question? You'll insult your island hosts by being less than candid. 3 Is the water safe? Yes, but we suggest bottled water for peace of mind. 4 Are vaccinations needed? No. 5 Can Americans join? They are especially welcome to do so! 6 Can I stay in Cuba after the tour? Absolutely and we are glad to help. 7 Do Cubans like tips? Yes, please see our Gratuities Guidelines. |
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Late evening arrival at Havana's José Martí International Airport.
Collect your bags and go through customs. See What to take to Cuba.
You're welcomed at the airport by your Cuba Education Tours guide and professional bus chauffeur.
They'll help you exchange some Canadian dollars into Cuban Convertible Pesos.
Group transfer to Hotel Telégrafo located in heart of Old Havana, near all the key historic sites, the Ballet and the Malecón seawall. Erected in 1860 and recently restored, its stunning decor and relaxed atmosphere make for a warm welcome and stay. It's a marvelous combination of old and new like La Habana itself.
Private check-in with assistance from your guide.
Breakfasts are complementary daily from 7AM to 10AM.
Lunches are included on Days 3, 5and 7. Dinners are included on Day 2.
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A view from the Hotel Telégrafo facing Parque Central. You'll relax in luxury in its well-appointed rooms. Its central courtyard comprised of imposing brick arches and fountains offer escape (and refreshments). Its elegant Restaurante El Telégrafo specializes in Cuban haute and international cuisine. |
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One in ten cars in Cuba are pre-1959. |
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TIME AND CLIME IN HAVANA NOW
Island-wide annual averages
Summer temp average: 81F | 27C
Winter temp average: 72F | 22C
Ocean temp average: 78F | 25.5C
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| CUBA IS THE LARGEST and least commercialized island in the Caribbean. It hosts 6000 plant species, half of which are endemic. There are 20 million palms in Cuba comprised of 30 species. Other flora includes the rare cork palm, a holdout from the cretaceous period; the jagüey, a fig with aerial roots; the palma barrigona (pot belly palm); the ceiba (sacred silk-cotton tree); and the mariposa (butterfly jasmine, Cuba's national flower). The most abundant land fauna is reptilian: crocodiles, iguanas, lizards, salamanders, turtles and 15 species of nonpoisonous snakes. The biggest land mammal is the jutía, a tree dwelling rodent the size of a cocker spaniel. The native bee hummingbird or zunzún is the world's smallest warm-blooded vertebrate weighing between 1.6 and 1.8 grams. The Cuban trogon or tocororo is the national bird – its red, blue and white plumage reflecting the colors of the Cuban flag. |
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| ORIENTATION AND RELAXATION DAY |
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Entrance to La Guarida restaurant. |
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Boy toasts his grandmother [abuela]. Cuban youth hold elders in high regard. The island is known as the Jewel of the Caribbean for its natural beauty and the unmatched warmth and kindness of its people. |
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| The capital city of Havana as seen from the fortress El Morro, across the harbor. |
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This morning and afternoon are free to rest up and get to know the neighborhood around your hotel.
Tour highlight Group welcome dinner at La Guarida paladar, where the Oscar-nominated Cuban blockbuster "Strawberry and Chocolate" was filmed (drinks not included).
Tour highlight You'll enjoy an evening visit to Bar de Las Estrellas Cabaret in Havana's Lawton neighborhood (entrance fee and first bottle of rum and coke included). This club features Cuba's best drag performers and are tops in the Americas. Check out the video of Bar de Las Estrellas' performers! |
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| Left Many buildings from the colonial era feature cloisters. Right Statue atop the Gran Teatro where the Ballet Nacional de Cuba performs. |
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| EXPLORING OLD HAVANA, VISUAL ARTS AND THE NATIONAL BALLET |
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Example of restoration in Old Havana. |
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Street pantomime in Old Havana. |
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| Exterior and interior of the Cathedral of Havana initiated by Jesuits in 1748 and completed in 1777. |
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Ballet Nacional de Cuba (NBC) dancers are also stars abroad: Victor Gili (NBC), Carlos Acosta (London Ballet's lead male), and Jose Losada (NBC) here linking steps at 2007 performance in the UK. |
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Detail of working lithographic press at the Taller Experimental de Gráfica. Many great artists and their works have emerged from this studio. |
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Cloistered entrance to the Hotel Santa Isabel in Old Havana. Originally it was the 19th century mansion of Santovenia family, and known as the Palacio de Count Santovenia. |
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Morning walking tour of Old Havana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We'll visit four of the five historic plazas that make Havana unique in the western hemisphere. It contains the largest collection of colonial-era architecture in the Americas. This is a private tour led by your Cuba Education Tours guide.
Cathedral Square, the most beautiful and private 18th century colonial plaza on the island. Named after the masterpiece of Cuban baroque architecture: the Cathedral of Havana built by the Jesuit order.
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Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, former seat of colonial government. Today the building houses the Museum of the City. |
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Palacio del Segundo Cabo, seat of the second authority of the island. Today it houses important publishing concerns. |
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Museo de Artesania at Castillo de la Real Fuerza, the second oldest fortress built by the Spaniards in the West Indies. Today it displays treasures of artistic ceramics by the most prestigious Cuban artists from the middle of the last century to present. The institution is host to the Ceramic Biennial. |
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We continue onto San Francisco Square, one of the oldest plazas in the historical quarter.
And later to Plaza Vieja, the only civic square of colonial times. Absent are churches and government buildings. We'll visit an important center for the visual arts.
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Musicians at La Mina restaurant. |
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Lunch at La Mina Restaurant where you'll enjoy traditional Cuban dishes and live music! (Drinks not included.)
Next we'll meet with the director of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica in Cathedral Square, a cooperative of artists involved in modern printmaking, and tour their workshop.
Followed by a visit to gallery Centro Wilfredo Lam (named in honor of one of Cuba's most important artists). It is headquarters for the Arts Biennial; its objective is to promote contemporary art from developing nations.
Free time in the famous open-air handicraft market near Cathedral Square where you can purchase all sorts of crafts and souvenirs by local artisans.
Program highlight Attend a performance of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (BNC). The troupe was founded 1948 by Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso, who remains its chief choreographer and artistic director. The BNC ranks among the top ballets in the world. (Performances typically begin at 5PM. Tickets not included in cost. If ballet does not perform tonight, this activity will take place on another tour evening.) Photos left and right Alicia Alonso in her trademark role "Giselle." Grande dame of Cuban dance in 2005.
Dinner (not included in cost). Your guide is available to suggest nearby eateries for every taste and budget. |
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| ARCHITECTURE, GAY ORGANIZATIONS, MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION |
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Logo of CENESEX: Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual [National Center for Sexual Education]. |
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CENESEX president Mariela Castro Espín center with Cuban transsexuals discussing progressive social change. She has authored and submitted legislation for state funding of sex change operations and same sex unions – both soon to become law. Ms Castro Espín is the daughter of pioneer feminist Vilma Espín and president Raul Castro. |
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| Left Publication of CENESEX offers in depth coverage on all matters of sexuality and AIDS prevention. Right CENESEX pro-condom poster reads: Disfruta la vida evita el SIDA. ¿Cómo demuestro que te amo? [Enjoy life, avoid AIDS. How I show you that I love you?]. This one shows a woman holding a condom and tulip. A matching version shows a man. They target both gays and straights. |
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 Cinema Yara at Calle 23 (La Rampa) and Calle L, is an evening rendezvous for young lesbians and gays. There they socialize, exchange news and gossip. |
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| U.S. filmmaker and antiracism activist Sonja de Vries. Her groundbreaking 1995 documentary "Gay Cuba" remains the last word on queer history and progress since the 1959 revolution. It's a great film to watch in preparation for your trip. See her website. |
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Morning visit to the Scale Model of Havana and a private meeting with world-renowned architect Dr Mario Coyula Cowley, director of the Group for the Integral Development of the Capitol. His organization hosts a museum that contains a model of the entire city of Havana. The model took nine years to build and is the second largest in the world after one of New York City. Havana's 727 square kilometers are represented in an area of 22 meters of length and 10 meters of width. City planners needed to see and have a tactile sense of the impressive physical and cultural patrimony of Havana, spanning five centuries as a port city, island and Caribbean capitol, and launching pad for the conquest of the Americas.
Historical periods of construction are displayed through the use of different colors. Brown represents the colonial period, ochre the republican period, ivory the revolutionary period, and white represents new projects, sculptural monuments and cemeteries. With the use of textures and colors similar to the natural ones, the vegetation, parks, beaches and plazas are distinguished. This virtual tool enables city planners practical and realistic planning. They experiment by placing miniature buildings in the peewee metropolis to see how they fit within a specific area and architectural context. If planners don't like a proposal, they can move it somewhere else, demand a design change, or nix it. You'll learn how each part of the city has developed historically, and the tough challenges each district faces today.
Get ready for an air-conditioned luxury coach tour of the most important sites of Modern Havana such as the Capitol building, the Grand Theatre, Central Park, Prado promenade, Revolution Square, Coppelia Ice Cream Park, Plaza José Martí (in front of US Interests Section), Malecón seawall, Monument to the Battleship Maine, Hotel Nacional, University of Havana, Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, and the Miramar, Central Havana and Vedado neighborhoods.
Lunch (not included in cost).
Meeting with members and representatives of CENESEX (Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual / National Center for Sexual Education). This organization and its founder Mariela Castro Espín campaign for equality and dignity for lesbians, gays, transsexuals and transgendered people. Its work consists of advocacy at the community and political level combined with national education efforts and sensitivity training. In particular CENESEX leads in the areas of HIV/AIDS awareness and support services, and gender and sexuality counseling. The heroic work of CENESEX has rocketed Cuba into the stratosphere of the most progressive nation in Latin America for queers. As such, Cuba today is ahead of the United States on matters of legality, compassion, safety, health and government supported promotion of equality. (Visit the CENESEX website, Spanish only.)
Followed by meeting with Línea Ayuda. This dynamic volunteer organization provides a help line for people with HIV/AIDS together with crucial outreach, and prevention and education activities.
Afterwards we'll explore the Museum of Revolution, the former Presidential Palace. Today it exhibits the history of the Cuban Revolution through documents and objects among which we find the famous Yacht Granma that returned Fidel and his 82 guerilla fighters from Mexico to Cuba to launch the struggle for liberation from the Batista dictatorship.
Dinner (not included in cost). Your guide is available to suggest nearby eateries for every taste and budget.
Tonight is free to explore the neighborhood around your hotel and local entertainment options. |
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You'll meet with renowned architect Dr Mario Coyula Cowley, director of the Group for the Integral Development of Havana. |
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Small section of the incredible scale model (second largest in the world after New York) of the city of Havana used for urban planning. |
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Drag artist readies for show. Scene from Sonja de Vries' "Gay Cuba." |
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Cuban music and movement has its origins in labor combined with the admixture of African and Spanish cultures known as syncretism. |
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Drag queen performs at Havana club. |
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Couple fly rainbow flag in Havana suburb. Cuba is the safest country in the Americas for women and LGBT people. |
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We visit the Museum of Revolution. |
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| CUBAN ARTS AND CULTURE DAY IN MODERN HAVANA |
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Entrance to the Palacio de Bellas Artes. |
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Modernist sculpture by noted Cuban artist Rita Lonja stands outside the entrance to Palacio de Bellas Artes. |
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Interior courtyard of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. |
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Entrance to the Casa de la Amistad. |
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The Fortress El Morro has for three centuries guarded the entrance to Havana Harbor. |
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Víctor Manuel's Gitana Tropical, known as the Cuban Mona Lisa, was painted in Paris in 1929. |
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Morning Guided tour of the Palacio de Bellas Artes [Palace of Fine Arts] dedicated exclusively to housing Cuban art spanning three centuries. Sections are devoted to landscape, religious subjects and narrative scenes of Cuban life. A gallery devoted to the 1970s displays the latest generation of Cuban artists whose works reflect the strong symbolic imagery prevalent in recent decades. Together the exhibits account for the richness of the island's Spanish, French, Chinese, African cultural roots. Notable works include those of Rene Portacarrero and Wilfredo Lam.
Tour highlight This afternoon we'll feast on a delicious lunch hosted by José Fuster, one of Cuba's most important ceramists and painters at his whimsical studio in Jaimanita, just outside of Havana.
Followed by a visit to the studios of contemporary young visual artist.
Dinner (not included in cost). Your guide is available to suggest nearby eateries for every taste and budget.
Evening venue: Casa de la Amistad is one of the best settings to listen to great traditional music in a welcoming friendly atmosphere. You'll enjoy the classical son group, La Peña del Chan Chan perform up-tempo salsa and bolero. Dance with Cubans and foreign visitors on the veranda or in the beautiful gardens of Casa de la Amistad's spectacular mansion facilities (optional participation, not included in cost, 3 CUC entrance fee). |
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Fantasy garden and studio of acclaimed artist José Fuster. |
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Moviemaker Michael Moore visits the home of Cuban artist José Fuster while filming "SiCKO" in March 2007. |
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Kids playing at José Fuster's house. |
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Grupo La Peña del Chan Chan performs at Casa de la Amistad. |
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| CIGAR FACTORY TOUR AND FREE TIME IN HAVANA |
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| Left Highly skilled cigar roller at work. Right and top Partagás Real Fábrica de Tabacos building from 1845. Westerners first savored tobacco in Cuba in 1492. Cuban aboriginals had long cultivated the crop for use in rites. |
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Havana's former Capitol building (a scale version of the same in Washington DC) is now home to the Academy of Sciences, a museum and an internet cafe for the public. Right Interior view of the dome of El Capitolio. Below Great entrance hall.
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Interior of the Centro Gallego's Gran Teatro, headquarters for the Ballet Nacional. |
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Morning tour of the Partagás Real Fábrica de Tabacos established in 1845. It has supplied fine cigars to connoisseurs, as well as European and Asian nobility, for over 163 years. Here some of Cuba's most famed cigars are produced including Romeo y Julietas and Cohibas among other big names. You'll witness the steps of the craft from selection of the cured leaves to expert rolling by skilled workers. It was on the island of Cuba that Europeans first savored tobacco in 1492. Cuban aboriginals had long cultivated the crop and enjoyed it in ceremonial practices. The words tobacco and cigar both derive from the Taíno Indian language. Natives gave two crew of Christopher Columbus, Rodrigo de Xerez and Luis de Torres, tobacco. They introduced the product and custom to Europe several months later. Today, aficionados consider Cuba's product the best in the world.
Lunch (not included in cost).
Afternoon tour of the Capitol Building [El Capitolio] was designed by Cuban Architects and built by the American construction company of Purdy & Henderson. This monumental building is one of Cuba's most outstanding architectural patrimonies packed with artwork from Cuban and foreign artists.
Next will visit the Centro Gallego or Gran Teatro was established in 1837 making it the oldest continuous performing arts institution in Latin America. The original building was considered one of the finest theaters in the world. In 1915 Belgian Architect Paul Belau brought it to its current state. Its facades have rich decoration derived from baroque and renaissance styles and is considered the most sumptuous building in Cuba. It is home to the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. With some luck we'll glimpse the ballet in rehearsal.
Dinner (not included in cost). Your guide is available to suggest nearby eateries for every taste and budget.
Evening suggestion Dance to Afrojazz, Cubajazz and Sonjazz at Club La Zorra y El Cuervo [The Fox and the Raven] featuring astonishing performances by island bands and soloists! It is frequented by artists, students, dancers, and foreign guests (optional participation, not included in cost, 10 CUC entrance fee).
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Rural youth attends to his steed. |
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We might spot a Tocororo, the national bird. Its colors reflect red, white and blue of the Cuban flag. |
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Exotic and unique plants and animals thrive in Cuba. The island has more protected areas than any other country. |
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| CUBA HAS 300 ecologically protected areas comprising 22 percent of its landmass. Six of these areas are UNESCO World Biosphere Reserves. Over half the island's diverse flora and fauna is indigenous – existing nowhere else – and is guarded from exploitation. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) declared Cuba the only country with a planet friendly economy. |
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The Sierra del Rosario Mountains, home to Las Terrazas, once produced fine coffee beans and were later deforested as a result of charcoal manufacture. Thirty years ago, Las Terrazas inhabitants restored tens-of-thousands of hectares to its original jungle-like state. |
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Morning departure to Las Terrazas eco-community in the Sierra del Rosario mountain range west of Havana in the province of Pinar del Río.
We'll tour its rural village called Rancho Curujey and enjoy a welcome cocktail while hearing about this self-sustaining community's goals of reforestation, historical preservation, environmental balance and a good life.
We'll visit its school Republica Oriental del Uruguay for primary and secondary children and talk with teachers and students who live in this community.
Next we'll meet with local artists and craft workers in their homes and studios.
Later we'll walk the incredible ruins of a French Coffee Plantation built in 1801 and worked by African slaves.
Then we continue on to La Moka, an ecological hotel with trees growing up through its balconies and ceilings.
We'll enjoy a complementary lunch at a local eatery serving traditional Cuban country cuisine. (Drinks not included.)
You'll have free time to swim in the fresh waters of the Río San Juan and explore the surroundings of this lush tropical paradise.
Return to Havana.
Dinner (not included in cost). Your guide is available to suggest nearby eateries for every taste and budget.
Tonight is free to explore the neighborhood around your hotel and local entertainment options with your tourmates and new Cuban friends. |
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In Havana's countryside many youth are engaged in organic agriculture combined with a rigorous academic program. |
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Cubans enjoy lifelong free health care and education combined with inexpensive housing, utilities and childcare. |
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Once deforested and mired in poverty, Las Terrazas today is a self-staining eco-community. |
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| Some among many staples grown organically in Havana and Pinar del Río provinces: Left to right Bananas, coffee beans, cucumbers, pineapple, sweet potatoes, eggplant, and avocados. |
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| AFROCUBAN CULTURE AND GAY BEACH DAY |
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Havana's eastern beaches are called Playas del este [Eastern beaches]. |
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Flower vendor in Havana. |
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Pals enjoy cervezas at the gay section of Playas del este. |
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Ferryboat ride across Havana harbor to the Municipality of Regla. This Afrocuban community has a long, rich and still active tradition of African-inspired religions.
We'll visit Regla's church dedicated to the black "Virgen de Regla" Yemayá, the African goddess of the sea in the Yoruba religion and the patron saint of sailors.
We'll tour the Museo Municipal de Regla and learn of the origins of this unique community and its Afrocuban cultures.
We'll visit home studio of painter, master printmaker and designer Antonio Canet.
Lunch in Playas del este (not included in cost).
Beach Trip! Afternoon at the Playas del este [Eastern beaches] 20 kilometers outside the metropolis. Don't forget your swimwear and sunscreen; el sol shines stronger on the island! These beautiful white sand beaches rival the best sun destinations in the Caribbean. Don't like the beach? That's ok. You can stay in Havana and explore the city.
Return to Havana.
Dinner (not included in cost). Your guide is available to suggest nearby eateries for every taste and budget.
Tonight is free to explore the neighborhood around your hotel and local entertainment options with your tourmates and new Cuban friends. |
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Regla's church honors a black goddess who protects fishers and sailors. |
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Alter detail of the black "Virgen de Regla" Yemayá. |
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Ferryboat traversing Havana harbor to the municipality of Regla. |
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A perfect place for snorkeling and other water sports. |
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Fresh catch from from the sea. |
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| GOODBYE CUBA – HELLO NORTH AMERICA |
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| KEEP IN TOUCH with your new Cuban friends – exchange email addresses! Bring some business cards to pass out on the island. Take pictures and keep a journal. Upon your return, we'll post them on this website for all to see and enjoy. |
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Malecón seawall at sunset. |
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Breakfast and the entire morning free to explore more of the city before heading to Havana's José Martí International Airport for your return flight. Don't forget to save 25.00 CUC for your Cuban airport departure tax.
Want to stay longer on your own? Contact us and we will help make it happen. |
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| We'll miss you and hope you return soon! |
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Old Cuban saying, "a true friend remembers the song in your heart when you have forgotten the lyrics." |
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