Overview & Highlights
This comprehensive highlights tour goes a step further than most. Visit Havana, the Viñales valley, forested Las Terrazas and the best historic cities: Cienfuegos, Santa Clara and Trinidad. Wind down on a Caribbean beach.
This holiday includes the main highlights of Cuba but you’ll dig deeper, with walks and private excursions to help you to understand how this country really ticks. Cuba is unique and inspiring; a socialist stronghold, with a rebellious history, colonial splendour in many of the towns, spectacular countryside and a Caribbean heart. Its vibrancy and friendly people will make a lasting impression.
The trip begins in Havana, Cuba's inimitable capital, with its faded grandeur and pulsating rhythms. Head west to stroll around Viñales, a fertile valley with limestone mountains in the tobacco-growing region. After a visit to forested Las Terrazas, an eco-experiment that really works, you’ll visit three of the country’s contrasting cities, Cienfuegos, colonial Trinidad and Santa Clara, each with a story to tell. There’s time to absorb it all on a sugar-white beach on one of the loveliest Caribbean cays, Santa María.
- Half day guided walking tour of Old Havana
- Half day guided walking tour of Viñales Valley
- Half day guided walking tour of Cienfuegos
- Full day excursion, exploring Trinidad and visiting the Sugar Mill Valley
- Half day city tour of Santa Clara with visit to Che Guevara Mausoleum
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Outline itinerary
Day 1
Arrive in Havana. Transfer to hotel in the historic centre.
Day 2
Guided walking tour of Old Havana.
Day 3
By road to Viñales, western Cuba. 2 nights.
Day 4
Half day guided walking in Viñales Valley.
Day 5
Transfer to rural Las Terrazas. 2 nights.
Day 6
At leisure in forested countryside.
Day 7
By road to Cienfuegos port, Pearl of the South. Overnight.
Day 8
Guided walking city tour. By road to colonial Trinidad. 2 nights.
Day 9
Guided tour of the city and Sugar Mill Valley.
Day 10
By road to Santa Clara, guided city tour, continue to island Cayo Santa María
Days 11-12
At leisure on the beach.
Days 13
Transfer to Las Brujas and continue to Havana overland. Overnight.
Day 14
Transfer to airport for international flight home.
Things to do
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Accommodation
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Cuba / Havana
Madero Bed and Breakfast
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Cuba / Las Terrazas
Hotel Moka Las Terrazas
Cuba / Cienfuegos, Santa Clara and Bay of Pigs
Hotel La Union
Cuba / Trinidad and the Escambray Mountains
Iberostar Grand Hotel
Cuba / Caribbean cayes and coast
Melia Cayo Santa Maria
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After graduating in Computer Science, Paul spent seven months travelling from Colombia to Argentina and came home hooked on Latin America.
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