Arrival
at José Martí International
Airport, Havana. Transfer to your hotel.
Check-in. Dinner. Evening free.
Day
2:
Breakfast.
Special tour of the places Humbolt visited
during the time he lived in Havana. Visit
to the Alexander Humbolt Museum, located
in the heart of the historic center, the
Santa Clara convent, the cathedral, etc.
Lunch at La Terraza de Cojímar restaurant,
one of Ernest Hemingway's favourites some
four decades ago. Continuation of the tour
through the villages of Guanabacoa and Regla
where Humbolt did his ethnological and mineralogical
studies. Return to the hotel. Dinner. Evening
program with the 9 o'clock sharp cannon
shot ceremony at the Castillo de San Carlos
de la Cabaña, a tradition since the
XVI century.
Day
3:
Breakfast.
Transfer by coach to Guines. Tour of the
city center and the Municipal Museum where
specialists will talk about Humbolt's influence
on the area. Visit to the Loma de la Candela
look-out point and its caves, with spectacular
views of this rural area around the city
of Guines where Humbolt studied the economic
aspects of the cultivation of sugar cane.
Visit to the remains of La Alejandría
Sugar Mill. Departure to Montemar Natural
Park on the Zapata peninsula. Lunch at the
Fiesta Campesina country house. Boat trip
on the Tesoro Laguna. Check-in at Hotel
Guamá. Dinner. Evening free.
Day
4:
Breakfast.
Visit to La Salina wild life refuge to enjoy
its flora and wide variety of autochthonous
and migratory birds. Packed lunch. Return
to Hotel Guamá. Dinner. Evening free.
Day
5:
Breakfast.
Departure to the city of Trinidad. Stop
at the botanical garden of Cienfuegos. View
of Jagua Bay from the city pier. Lunch.
Continuation to Trinidad. Check-in and dinner
at Hotel Las Cuevas or Costa
Sur. Evening free.
Day
6:
Breakfast.
Special tour of places Humbolt visited in
the historic center of Trinidad, Cultural
Heritage Site. Tour includes visits to De
la Popa church, Humbolt's house, and the
Anthropology Museum, among other places.
Lunch at Torre Iznaga restaurant in Los
Ingenios Valley. Return to the hotel. Afternoon
free. Dinner. Evening at the Cueva de Ayala
discotheque situated in a gigantic cave.
Day
7:
Breakfast.
Excursion to nearby María Aguilar
beach. Return to the hotel. Lunch. Transfer
to your hotel in Havana. Check-in. Dinner.
Evening free.
Day
8:
Breakfast.
Transfer to Havana airport and return to
country of origin.
NOTES
· Hotels within this program unless otherwise stated in the program: Havana City: Vedado, Saint Jonh's Viñales: La Ermita, Los Jazmines o Rancho San Vicente Trinidad: Las Cuevas o Costa Sur Santiago de Cuba: San Juan o Las Américas Varadero: Herradura o Mar del Sur
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