EL ORIENTE: CUBA FROM THE OTHER SIDE
December 6 - 19, 2017
Package Includes:
- 13 nights accommodations or similar (Hotels Pending Confirmation)
4 nights Hotel Casa Granda, Santiago de Cuba
3 nights Hotel El Castillo, Baracoa
2 nights Hotel Encanto Ordono, Gibara
4 nights Hotel Parque Central, Havana
- Intra flight: Holguin-Havana
- Related documents required for legal travel to Cuba
- Shared room accommodations in 5-4-3-star hotels (single supplement available)
- 2 meals per day (excluding arrival and departure days)
- Preparatory reading and orientation materials
- Airport transfers on arrival and departure days
- Sightseeing per itinerary in private air-conditioned motor coach
- Services of English-speaking tour escort/manager from arrival to return
- Local guides as required
- Welcome cocktail and one bottle of water daily
- Entrance fees per itinerary
- Admissions, honoraria and fees to all program activities
Not Included:
- Flights to and from Miami as well as related transfers
- International Flight Miami-Holguin and Havana-Miami
- Travel visa ($65)
- Extra Beverages or snacks and one meal a day
- Optional tours/activities
- Expenses of a purely personal nature
- Room service charges
- Gratuities to the bellboys and waiters, and your guide and driver
- Transportation of luggage in excess of weight allowance
- Travel/Medical Insurance (recommended)
- Cuban departure tax (appx $28 paid in cash at Miami airport)
- Baggage handling fee (appx $20 paid in cash at Miami airport)
- Anything not mentioned in the package includes section.
Special Features
- Enjoy a small group tour (10-15)
- Learn about the Afro-Cuban religion, music, and dance that dominates this region
- Visit the church and major pilgrimage site of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre
- Enjoy a son music performance, the Cuban musical style synonymous with Cuban culture
- Visit La Fabrica de los Coches, and take a ride on a horse-drawn cart through town
- Enjoy photo walks through remote towns and cities
- Visit Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca del Morro (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
- Explore Cafetal La Isabelica Coffee Plantation (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
- Tour the Moncada Barracks, where Castro and his revolutionaries staged their attack against Batista
- Visit Cementerio Santa Ifigenia, where Fidel Castro and Jose Marti are buried
- Take a ferry ride to Caya Granma
- Explore Cuba's vibrant street life, visiting local markets
- Visit Bacardi Rum Factory
- Enjoy sunset at a beautiful beach
- Visit a chocolate farm
- Ride a traditional canoe through Cuchillas de Toa Natural Biosphere (UNESCO)
- Visit the Garden of Polymitas, and see the world's most colorful snails
- Visit Fabrica de Organo, the only mechanical organ factory in Latin America
- Explore Choro de Maita, an important pre-Columbian site
- Visit a cigar factory
- Enjoy a dance performance by Tumba Francesca
- Ride classic cars along the Maelcon
- View the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo
- Visit a community center for seniors
- Witness Procession de San Lazaro, one of the most important pilgrimages in Cuba
- Enjoy a private jazz concert
- Visit the homes and studios of the country's leading artists
- Experience the burgeoning free enterprise scene at private restaurants (paladares)
Pricing
- Program price is $5,912.01. Single supplement is $1095 for a private room
Registration
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