Memories of Cuba

Day One
Arrival to Cuba - Arrival at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana and meeting with the private guide and driver (Classic car) With time to change currency.

Plaza de la Revolution and Malecón - First planned stop at the Plaza de la Revolucion, where all the monumental work immortalizes the national heroes and a meeting place for major events and political mobilizations in recent years in the Cuban capital. Discover in the surroundings of the square, renowned building such as the National Library and the National Theater.

Old Havana By Car - Panoramic tour in a convertible through the Avenida del Puerto and the Cruise Terminal, then stop at the Central Park to discover, through the guides stories, the history of the architectural jewels that adorn this area of the city: Hotel Saratoga, National Capitol, Central Park of Havana, Alicia Alonso Theater, Hotel Inglaterra and Louvre sidewalk, Hotel Telegrafo, Paseo del Prado, Iberostar Hotel, Plaza Hotel, Universal Art Museum and Bacardi Building. Welcome lunch/or cocktail and time to relax. 4:00pm - 4:30pm, Check into hotel.

Hotel Nacional (6:30PM) - A classic car will pick you up at your hotel and take you through the famous Malecon to the famous Hotel Nacional, considered a historic and cultural symbol of the Cuban identity. The canons that were part of the ancient battery of Santa Clara and declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco, are on display in the hotel gardens that are a few meters from the sea offering a spectacular view of the bay with the Castillo del Morro and the city of Havana in the background. Imaging seating at the bar with a cocktail in your hand, enjoying the sunset and listening to a Cuban melody. (Historic tour and 1 cocktail per person)

Tropicana Night Club Dinner & Show (9:00pm) - It's an open-air space and world known as "the Cabaret under the stars". The performance combines the air the 50's with Cuban rhythms and popular dances in an extravagant decorated stage. Along the history all kind of celebrities have met the show. Specially remembered is Mayombe, a spectacular Afro-themed magazine that featured the performance of Celia Cruz in 1954. (Show tickets + ¼ bottle rum + soda to mix with rum. Transfer back to the hotel by midnight)

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Hotel Nacional Dinner & Show (9:00pm) - Parisien Cabaret offer the Grand Show "Cubano, Cubano". If you choose this show, you will stay at the Naional Hotel in order to enjoy one of the best night views of the city and a dancing show at Cabaret Parisien. The show will last approximately until midnight. (Show tickets + dinner + Transfer back to the hotel by midnight)

Day 2
4 Plazas - Walking Tour (9:00AM) - Breakfast at the hotel in Havana. 9:00am, a walking tour to visit throughout the restored area and the four main squares: Plaza San Francisco de Asis, Plaza Vieja, Plaza de Armas, Plaza de la Catedral and Boulevard Obispo. Enjoy lunch at Rum-Rum paladar or similar (lunch inclusive). Visit a local graphic arts center where some of Cuba's finest artists create some of modern art's finest and funkiest works. Speak view artists and entrepreneurs, learn about the printmaking techniques they preserver, and consider artistic mementos you may want to bring home.

Finca Vigia (2:30pm) - In the afternoon, visit to Finca Vigia, official residence of the Nobel Prize for Literature Ernest Hemingway in Havana and where his well-known yacht Pilar rests on wooden pillars. On the way back you will have the opportunity to tak a picture with Don Ernesto at the bar "EL Floridita", where he will be waiting for you with a drink. (1 cocktail per person)

Castillo del Morro and Cristo de la Havana (7:30pm) - Meeting with the guide to start the night discovering the other side of Havana bay, with an impressive view from the Morro fort system, declared by UNESCO as World Heritage. Stop at the Cristo de La Habana, imposing statue of 15 meters high, created by the Cuban artist Jilma Madera, in Carrara marble. Brief approach to the customs and traditions of the Cuban people, visiting the fishing community of Casablanca. Dinner at the Casa de la moneda (Full Dinner).

Day 3
Visit to Vinales in a modern car (7:00am) - Breakfast at the hotel in Havana. Start of a day trip to the Valley of Vinales, declared by UNESCO as a Natural Landscape of Humanity. Brief break at the Parador Las Barrigonas (palm trees with a belly), surrounded by typical rural houses and tobacco plantations. Once in Vinales, visit a manufactured tobacco dryer, to go into the process of growing and twisting the most recognized exportable product of Cuba internationally and the art of smoking "cigars", together with a local farmer. You will be able to purchase Cohiba cigars. Hike through the Vinales Valley National Park and visit the Mural of Prehistory.

Buena Vista paladar lunch (2:00pm) - Creole lunch included during the tour at the Bellavista Restaurant, in an ambiance of local music, stop at the Los Jazmines a lookout for the formations, called mogotes, which are the height of skyscrapers and tower over the Vinales Valley floor, before embarking on the return route to the capital, with time for photos of this spectacular natural landscape and a refreshing cocktail included.

Return to Havana - Las Terrazas (4:00pm) - In transit, brief stop in the Las Terrazas community, to get closer to the ecological project and potential of this natural area. This community was founded in 1971 and nominated by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve Site (within the Sierra del Rosario mountain range). The revenues from tourism, are main economic revenue of the area and are dedicated to the preservation of local flora and fauna. This community is also known as the first Cuban ecological museum. Return to the Hotel to enjoy a famous and tasteful Cuban Sandwich.

Day 4
Goodbye, Cuba (8:00am) - Breakfast at the Hotel. For those who their fights are in the afternoon, they will part of the morning to make last purchases. Transfer to the airport by classic car.

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