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cuba revelation

 

Salsa & fun in the heart of the Caribbean.

19 sizzling days

Escorted Tours

Tour dates:

25 February - 15 March, 2011

Tour leader:

Escorted from New Zealand by Jill Worrall

Tour price:

$7,750 per person, share twin

Single Supplement:

 

$800

   

Tour price includes

  • All airfares and taxes
  • 1 night in Santiago (Chile) on the way to Cuba
  • One night in Santiago on the way home
  • Accommodation in 3-star, 4-star & 5-star hotels
  • All breakfasts and dinners in Cuba
  • Cuba tourist visa-card
  • Group tipping
  • Services of English-speaking local guide
  • Assistance of your kiwi tour leader, Jill Worrall


Highlights

  • Be wowed by Havana’s stunning architecture, including the Museo de Revolucion, the San Cristobal cathedral and the Palace Capitanes Generales.
  • Taste Cuba’s most famous rum at its Havana distillery.
  • Explore the exotic and bizarre items for sale in the fascinating Callejon de Hammel.
  • Stroll with the locals along Havana’s Malecon, its seaside promenade.
  • Watch the Cuban art of hand-rolling cigars and visit a plantation that produces the tobacco itself.
  • Take a boat ride through the caves that abound in the Vinales national park and admire Cuba’s largest collection of orchids.
  • Make a pilgrimage to the home of Ernest Hemingway – it’s just as he left it and even includes his own pet cemetery!
  • Visit Santa Clara with its close associations with legendary Che Guevara.
  • Take in the mind-boggling architectural styles that abound on a former Batista-era casino in delightful Cienfuegos.
  • Relish a guided tour of one of the largest botanical gardens in Latin America.
  • Groove to the music in a traditional Trinidad music club and explore much more in this World Heritage-listed town.
  • Dip at least your toes in the Caribbean Sea and feel the soft white sand underfoot.
  • Board a steam train that chuffs its way through historic sugar plantations and ascend a tower once used to supervise the slaves that laboured among the crop.
  • Taste a famous canchanchara cocktail in a Trinidad bar.
  • Savour the neo-classical architecture of Camaguey.
  • Visit Cuba’s most famous church, a basilica, almost buried in the jungle.
  • Follow in the footsteps of Velasquez as we tour his home in Santiago de Cuba.
  • Relive the battle of the Moncada Barracks, where Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries first came to prominence in their rebellion against Cuba’s dictatorship.
  • Take in the array of masks and costumes in Santiago de Cuba’s carnival museum.
  • Smell the coffee (or memories of it) in the UNESCO biosphere reserve, Parque Baconao and wander among the exotic plants in its tropical botanical garden.
  • Relish the views along one of Cuba’s great scenic drives, La Farola, which will take us through the Sierra Maestra mountains.
  • Relax beside the sea in Baracoa, Cuba’s oldest town at its easternmost-tip.
  • Gaze out across the bay where once Columbus sailed.
  • Cruise up the Rio Toa, Cuba’s largest river and savour lunch in a tropical fruit garden.
  • Be blown away by the spectacle that is the Tropicana nightclub’s cabaret. Count the feathers on the dancers’ costumes – there’s not much else to them!
  • Rumble through the streets of Havana in a classic American automobile.
  • Shop for unique Cuban souvenirs in the atmospheric streets around Havana’s Plaza des Armas.
  • And all along the way, listen to the music, sway those hips and sip those mojitos! We have plenty of opportunities to party!
 







 
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