ITINERARY January 5-12, 2019
EXPLORING THE ISLAND THROUGH THE ARTS, DISCOVERING ITS PEOPLE, THEIR HISTORY AND CULTURE.
Duration 8 days and 7 nights in Cuba.
• Capri Hotel 4 stars, Havana
Day 1 – Saturday: Arrival and hello Cuba
EXPLORING THE ISLAND THROUGH THE ARTS, DISCOVERING ITS PEOPLE, THEIR HISTORY AND CULTURE.
Duration 8 days and 7 nights in Cuba.
• Capri Hotel 4 stars, Havana
Day 1 – Saturday: Arrival and hello Cuba
- Arrival at Havana’s José Martí International Airport. Collect your bags and go through customs. You’re welcomed at the airport lobby by your Cuba Explorer Tours guide and professional bus chauffeur
- Private transfer to your hotel
- Private check-in with assistance from your guide
- Free time to settle in and rest up at your hotel
- This evening you’ll enjoy a group welcome dinner with your Cuban guide and tourmates at Los Naranjos private restaurant (included)
- Your guide with keep you posted on local entertainment options
- Breakfast at hotel, included
- Morning visit to the Maqueta de La Habana Vieja. It's a 1:500 scale model of Old Havana complete with an authentic soundtrack meant to replicate a day in the life of the city. It's incredibly detailed and provides an excellent way of geographically acquainting yourself with the city’s historical core. The model is used for social development and planning.
- Followed by a 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 remaining colonial-era architecture. This is a private tour led by your Cuba Education Tours guide.
- Lunch at el Rum Rum private restaurant (included in tour cost)!
- Visit Museo de Artes Decorativas.
- Return to hotel
- Dinner is not included. We are free to explore different restaurants. Your guide will advise on restaurants for every taste and budget
- Evening is free to explore the sights and sounds of the city. Your guide will keep you posted on evening entertainment options
Old Town Havana
Day 3 – Monday
- Morning departure to Las Terrazas eco-community, which was declared a biosphere reserve by the United Nations
- Visit a rural village called Rancho Curujey
- Visit the art studio of a local artist
- Lunch at an open-air restaurant La Casa del Campesino, included
- Return to Havana
- Dinner tonight is not included. We are free to explore different eateries. Your guide will advise on restaurants for every taste and budget.
- Evening is free to explore the sights and sounds of the city. Your guide will keep you posted on evening entertainment options
Las Terrazas
Day 4 – Tuesday
- Breakfast in hotel
- Visit ISA, the University of Arts and meet professors and students
- Visit José Fuster, one of Cuba's most important ceramicists and painters (the Picasso of Cuba) at his whimsical studio in Jaimanitas, just outside of Havana
- Lunch at Fuster’s, included
- Return to hotel
- Dinner tonight is at El Decamerón private restaurant
- Evening is free to explore the sights and sounds of the city. Your guide will keep you posted on evening entertainment options
Jose Fuster's Fusterlandia
Day 5 – Wednesday
- Breakfast in hotel
- Visit the studio of Afro-Cuban artist Eduardo Roca (Choco)
- Lunch at Habana 61 private restaurant (included)
- Visit Museo Nacional de la Cerámica. Housed within casa de Francisco Aguilera Basabe a two story historic building built in 1728, this museum exhibits Cuban art pottery from 1950 to the present day on the top floor, while the ground floor has a ceramic shop, temporary exhibition areas, lecture hall and an archaeological site.
- Return to hotel
- Dinner tonight is not included. We are free to explore different restaurants. Your guide will advise on restaurants for every taste and budget.
- Evening is free to explore the sights and sounds of the city. Your guide will keep you posted on evening entertainment options
- Breakfast in hotel
- Visit the Partagas Cigar Factory
- Lunch at El Zaguan private restaurant, included
- Visit the Museum of Fine Arts, the Cuban collection
- Return to hotel
- Dinner tonight is not included. We are free to explore different restaurants. Your guide will advise on restaurants for every taste and budget
- Evening entertainment Suggestion: Casa de la Música de Centro Habana, one of the best settings to listen to great traditional music. Dance with Cubans and foreign visitors
- Breakfast in hotel
- Visit the studios of Abel Barroso who constructs playful works that often invite the viewer to interact.
- We'll visit the UBPC Vivero Organopónico Alamar, 15 km (9.3 miles) east of Havana. It's one of the most successful urban organic farms in Cuba raising ornamental plants, medicinal herbs, and millions of seedlings for neighboring residential and collective farms. Established in the early 1990s, the Alamar cooperative has over 20 members and provides a range of healthy, organic vegetables to the community. Produce is raised employing the practice of permaculture: no chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Instead, natural biological methods are used to nourish the soil, frustrate pests and conserve water. The result is an increased rate of yield and reduced costs.
- TOUR HIGHLIGHT: Special lunch prepared by El Ajiaco private restaurant in Cojimar , a small fishing village one of Hemingway’s favorite places and where Hemingway was inspired to write Old Man and the Sea.
- Return to hotel in Havana
- Farewell dinner at Mediterraneo Havana private restaurant, included
Cojimar - inspired Hemingway to write 'Old Man and the Sea'
Day 8 – Saturday: Havana and home
TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
- A non-refundable deposit of 300 dollars is required upon registration to the program.
- Final payment is due 45 days prior to departure.
PRICES INCLUDE:
- All taxes. Prices listed are in USD.
- Airport transfers. We meet you at José Martí Int'l Airport in Havana and take you to the Riviera upon arrival. We return you to the airport for departure.
- All breakfasts, lunches, and dinners as per itinerary.
- All activities, services, speakers, meetings and meals as described in tour itinerary except those noted as "optional" or not included in tour cost.
- Car or van transportation and professional driver.
- An expert Cuban English- speaking guide and translator whose background matches your content.
- yours truly 24-7!
NOT INCLUDED IN TOUR:
- Cost of airfare to and from Havana.
- Cost of Cuban Medical Insurance.
- Cost of Cuba Entry Visa.
- Gratuities for Cuban tour guide, driver, chambermaids, restaurant staff, porters, etc.
- Breakfast in hotel
- Check-out of hotel
- Transfer to José Martí International Airport for flights home
TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
- A non-refundable deposit of 300 dollars is required upon registration to the program.
- Final payment is due 45 days prior to departure.
PRICES INCLUDE:
- All taxes. Prices listed are in USD.
- Airport transfers. We meet you at José Martí Int'l Airport in Havana and take you to the Riviera upon arrival. We return you to the airport for departure.
- All breakfasts, lunches, and dinners as per itinerary.
- All activities, services, speakers, meetings and meals as described in tour itinerary except those noted as "optional" or not included in tour cost.
- Car or van transportation and professional driver.
- An expert Cuban English- speaking guide and translator whose background matches your content.
- yours truly 24-7!
NOT INCLUDED IN TOUR:
- Cost of airfare to and from Havana.
- Cost of Cuban Medical Insurance.
- Cost of Cuba Entry Visa.
- Gratuities for Cuban tour guide, driver, chambermaids, restaurant staff, porters, etc.
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69 bank Street Suite 102. NY, NY 10014-2184
phone: 212-414-8875 fax: 866-501-6873
e-mail: philip@1worldarttravel.com