Cuba Western, Center and Eastern.
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Duration: 11 nights, 12 days.
Transportation: Private transfers and 1 local flight.
Accommodation: 11 nights at Homestays.
Meal Plan: 11 breakfasts, 5 lunches.
Day 1: HAVANA-Arrival:
Service: Welcome and assistance by our local representative, who will be outside at the arrivals area, holding a sign with your name. He will assist you with your private transfer to the Hotel and money exchange.
Accommodation: Private House. 3 nights.
Meal Plan: None.
This evening you can wander around your accommodation and find some nice restaurants and bars with live music. You can be advised by the owners of your Casa or we can give you a list of choices.
Day2:HAVANA.
Service: 9.00am: City Tour: Walking tour + Modern Havana in vintage car. Approx 7 hours.
Accommodation:Private House.
Meal Plan: Breakfast.
Description: 9.00am. This morning depart your homestay to explore Old Havana on a guided walking tour around the cobblestone streets to see some of this city’s fascinating historical and cultural attractions. Visit the four main squares as well as Obispo Street to admire the oldest colonial buildings and the progress of the restoration project. Advise your tour guide of any particular place of your interest and discuss the possibility of including it during the tour.
After optional lunch, continue the guided tour around New Havana in a beautiful convertible for about 3 hours. You will visit the Revolution Square, Malecón, Vedado and Miramar neighborhoods, as well as the surprising Metropolitan Forest of Havana. End this incredible ride with a cocktail at the National Hotel.
After the tour, you will be taken back to your accommodation. The rest of the afternoon and then evening is free.
Day 3: HAVANA.
Service: 8.00am-Viñales full day tour. Road trip 3 hours long, each way.
Accommodation: Private House.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch.
Description:8.00am: Depart Havana on a guided tour to Viñales Valley in Pinar Del Rio province known as The Garden of Cuba, admiring the changing scenery along the way.
This is a country side day trip to Viñales, the area where it grows the best tobacco plantations. The Viñales Valley, is a scenic panorama of cliffs, caves, hills (known as ‘mogotes’) and tobacco fields. Millions of years ago, underground rivers carved tunnels through the limestone hills. When the tunnel roofs collapsed, ‘mogotes’ and cliffs were formed. The red iron-rich soil creates the perfect environment for growing tobacco and presents a vista of lush green vegetation.
You will visit a tobacco plantation to enjoy a cigar degustation for amateurs and to learn about the process of rolling the famous Cuban cigars. During this visit, you will be allowed to take pictures of the cigar roller.
Admire the beauty of the Viñales Valley from the Mirador Los Jazmines and visit the Indian Cave.
A typical Cuban lunch is included at the local restaurant Bella Vista, where La Negra opens the doors of her kitchen full of “homemade” aromas and flavors.
After, return to Havana arriving about at 6.00 pm. The rest of the evening is free.
Day 4: HAVANA-BARACOA:
Service: 3.00 am: Private Transfer to the airport to take a local flight to Baracoa town.
Walking Tour + Cacao Tour.
Accommodation: Private House. 2 nights.
Meal Plan: Breakfast.
Description: At 3.00 am a taxi will take you to the airport to take a local flight to Baracoa town. Once there, a taxi driver will be waiting for you to take you to your accommodation where, after leaving your bags, you can enjoy some breakfast.
At 10.00 am, our local guide will pick you up to take you on a walking tour to learn about the history and fascinating local personalities such a as El Pelú and The Russian lady of Baracoa, a descendant in fact, of a former servant of the last Russian Zar. Continue discovering this special town and one of its big traditions by visiting The Cacao Trail for you to learn about cacao and chocolate process. At the end, enjoy a taste of this wonderful drink.
Lunch is included at a family home!
The rest of the evening is free.
Day 5: BARACOA:
Service: Free day to explore the area.
Accommodation: Private House.
Meal Plan: Breakfast.
Description: This day is at leisure for you to enjoy the many options Baracoa has to offer.
Check our ”What to do” section to decide what is best for you.
Day 6: BARACOA-SANTIAGO:
Service: 9.00am: Private Transfer from Baracoa to Santiago de Cuba city. 6 hours.
Accommodation: Private House. 2 nights.
Meal Plan: Breakfast.
Description: At 9.00 am the taxi will drive you from Baracoa to Santiago along the amazing road La Farola. This road was built in 1965 to facilitate the connection between Baracoa town and the capital of the province Guantánamo. The landscape along the way is both of lush vegetation at first, and more arid and dry as you leave the mountains behind. Part of the road runs also by the sea.
Stop at the lookout from where you will have a very faraway view of the American Naval Base located at Guantanamo Bay. Good stop to use the toilette and a to have drink.
After, continue the trip to Santiago the Cuba city. Once there, you will be dropped off at your accommodation.
Day 7: SANTIAGO DE CUBA:
Service:9.00 am: Santiago de Cuba City Tour. 6 hours.
Accommodation: Private House.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch.
Description: This day, our tour guide will take you to discover this amazing city walking around the colonial streets of the center and telling you all about the history since it’s foundation, the Revolution times to the present day.
Visit Céspedes Park in the heart of the city, Velazquez balcony, Enramada street and later have a drive around to see the most important monuments such as the Revolution Square, Moncada barracks, San Juan hill and the local Cemetery where our National hero, Fidel Castro and many of our heroes and personalities rest in peace.
Finish the tour with a seafood lunch at the beautiful Cayo Granma, a small fishermen town-island in the middle of Santiago harbor. Enjoy a short ferry or boat trip to the island and the gorgeous views of this part of the Caribbean.
After lunch, return to your accommodation to refresh. The rest for the evening is free.
Day 8: CAMAGÜEY
Service: 8.00 am: Private transfer from Santiago de Cuba to Camagüey with Bayamo City tour on the way. 9 hours.
Accommodation: Private House. 1 night.
Meal Plan: Breakfast.
Description: Leave Santiago de Cuba city to drive west to Camagüey and to visit Bayamo city on the way.
This trip will show you a different reality of Cuba. Along the way, you will see a lot of the countryside that was once, one of the richest agricultural areas of Cuba before 1959. Many local and American companies used to own all the sugar mills of the area where farming and cattle were the main economical activities. Nowadays, the picture is very different and quite a contrast with the western part of the country. It’s less developed in all ways and it seems quite forgotten in time. You will pass by several poor rural communities meaning that if you feel like donating anything, this is the area to do it and people will be very grateful.
Once in Bayamo, walk its historic center to learn about the birth of our Cuban Nationality, visit the only Wax Museum that exists in Cuba and take a horse and cart drive around the surroundings. You can have lunch at a suggested local restaurant before continuing the road trip to Camagüey or have something on the way.
At your arrival to Camagüey city, you will be taken to the accommodation. The rest of the evening is free.
Day 9 : TRINIDAD:
Service: 8.00 am: Bicitaxi Tour-Private transfer from Camagüey to Trinidad with Santa Clara City tour on the way. 9 hours.
Accommodation: Private House. 2 nights.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch.
Description: Start early this morning with a Bicitaxi tour around the narrow and confusing streets of Camagüey city. Visit all the main squares: San Juan de Dios, El Gallo, Parque Agramonte as well as Plaza del Carmen in which you can visit the studio of the renowned local artist Martha Jimenez.
After the tour, leave Camagüey and drive for about 4 hours to Santa Clara city. Once there, take a lunch break and after, continue the tour of Santa Clara to see the highlights of the city, mostly connected to the Revolution hero Che Guevara. During the visit to the Museum and Memorial at the Revolution square as well as the armored train museum, you will learn about his early years, his time in Cuba and is death in Bolivia in 1967.
Get a glimpse of the tranquil provincial life of this city by doing a short walk around the main park where the most beautiful buildings are located.
After the tour, continue the trip to Trinidad.
This drive will take you off the motorway to drive through small villages, farms and hills. It will take about 2 and a half hours from Santa Clara to Trinidad on a road with very little services available. Please, advise your driver of any needing ahead for him to figure out where to stop.
When you arrive to Trinidad, you will be dropped off at your accommodation for 2 nights.
This 80,000 inhabitants town, is one of the first 7 villages founded by the Spanish conquistadors and you will feel like traveling back to the 18th century, sorrounded by Baroque church towers, wrought iron gates, cobbled streets and tiled rooftops. Many of the buildings retain their traditional character and are painted in lovely pastel shades.
The surrounding area was one of the main centers of both sugar production and slavery and it was also frequented by smugglers until the late 1700s.
Enjoy a night stroll on your own around the cobbled stone streets full of bars, restaurants and live music.
Day 10: TRINIDAD:
Service: 9.30am: Walking tour. 2 hours.
Accommodation: Private House
Meal Plan: Breakfast.
Description: 9.30 am: Depart your Casa with our local tour guide to learn all about the history of this colorful UNESCO heritage. During this walking tour you will visit a local museum and will refresh the hit with the typical drink la Canchánchara. Remember to wear comfortable shoes for the cobbled stone streets.
Ask advise to your tour guide about restaurants for lunch and dinner. It’s plenty around. And also to point out the Casa de la Música, one of the best places to try some salsa!
The rest of the afternoon is free, plenty of time to visit Ancon beach, just 10 km away from the town center. You can arrange a round trip with a taxi driver or use the hop on hop off bus.
Day 11: HAVANA:
Service: 9.30am: Trinidad-Cienfuegos City Tour-Havana. Road trip 8 hours.
Accommodation: Private House. 1 night.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch.
Description: 9.30am: Say goodbye to Trinidad and get ready to go back to Havana.
On the way, you will visit Cienfuegos city, about 1 and half hour away from Trinidad. Known as the “Pearl of the South”, Cienfuegos is one of the youngest and most beautiful cities in Cuba. Set on a bay that opens to the Caribbean Sea, this provincial city, founded in 1819, displays a strong French influence in its fine neoclassical architecture. The streets are lined with mansions well past their ‘Belle Epoque’.
You will be met by our local guide for a walking tour around the historical center to see many fine old buildings including the Cathedral, the Town Hall and the Tomas Terry Theater, an impressive building from the late 1800’s which you can also visit after paying the entrance fee. Continue the tour driving along the sea front and finish the tour at a local restaurant where you have lunch included.
After lunch, continue your trip back to Havana and check in at your Casa for the last night.
Day 12: DEPARTURE
Service: Private transfer to the Airport.
Meal Plan: Breakfast
Description: A taxi will pick you up to take you to the airport 3 hours ahead your departure flight. Please, remember check out is at 12.00. If you are leaving after this time, you can leave the luggage at the house and get change before going to the airport.
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