ITINERARY

Day 1: Varadero-Havana
Arrival Varadero Airport. Welcome and transfer to Havana. Accommodation and dinner in selected hotel. Option to arrive in Havana. Welcome and transfer. Accommodation and dinner at selected hotel.

Day 2: Havana
Breakfast. Briefing and information meeting on the day-to-day itinerary for the week. The tour starts with sightseeing of the historical part of the city founded in 1515. Visit Plaza de Armas, El Templete, Mercaderes Street, The Palace of the Captain Generals, Cathedral Square, the world famous Bodeguita del Medio. Continue to Modern Havana by Bus, visit a Rum Factory. Lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch depart for the fishing village of Cojimar. Visit the Hemingway museum. Return to the hotel and dinner.

Day 3: Havana - Vinales
Breakfast. Morning departure to Vinales in the Province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba's western region, an agricultural and tobacco growing area. On the way, a short sightseeing tour of the city of Pinar del Rio and a visit to a cigar factory. Continue to the Valley of Vinales to admire the landscape with its unique knolls called mogotes. Lunch at a local restaurant. Visit the Mural de la Prihistoria and La Cueva del Indio (optional- take a boat ride along the underground river to see the inside of the cave). Accommodation and dinner at a selected hotel in the valley.

Day 4: Vinales - Las Terrazas - Havana
Breakfast. Morning departure to Las Terrazas Tourist Complex a Biosphere Reserve located in the Sierra del Rosario. On arrival a welcome drink at the grill of the Moka with a short briefing on the complex and its flora and fauna. Visit Las Terrazas Community to know its artists, workshops and members. Next visit La Canada del Infierno to see the ruins of French coffee plantations and sulfurous springs of the Bayate River. Visit the Buena Vista Coffee House built on top of a mountain and learn how coffee was processed for production. Lunch at Las Ruinas Restaurant. Return to Havana. Dinner at the hotel.

Day 5: Havana - Guama - Santa Clara - Cienfuegos
Breakfast. Depart for Santa Clara. En-route visit Guama located in the heart of the "Treasure Lake" which is the largest natural lake in Cuba. Guama is a reconstruction of a Taino Indian Village where the dwellings are built over the lake on stilts and connected with the mainland by wooden bridges. Continue the visit to La Boca at the entrance of the channel to see the crocodile-breeding farm. Afterwards lunch is served at La Boca Restaurant. Continue to Santa Clara to visit the Ernesto Che Guevara Mausoleum and Leoncio Vidal Park. Drive to Cienfuegos on arrival check in at the selected hotel and dinner. Evening at leisure.

Day 6: Cienfuegos
Breakfast. Sightseeing tour of Cienfuegos founded in 1819 by the French settlers. Depart for Topes de Callantes Mountains Community. Visit the lookout "Loma Ventana". From Topes continue by all terrain trucks via "La Sierrita Valley", passing rural communities to "Charco Azul" where the hiking trail "Sentinelas del Rio Melodioso" begins. The trail has exuberant vegetation, waterfalls, exclusive birds, native flora and water pools with running tranquil streams. Lunch is served at a beautiful Farm House "La Gallega". Accommodation and dinner at the selected hotel in Topes.

Day 7: Topes de Collantes - Trinidad
Breakfast. Departure to Trinidad. Sightseeing tour of one of the first townships founded by the Spaniards in the early 16th Century, declared by UNESCO a world Heritage Cultural Site. Visit the hold historical area with its coblestone streets, Main Square surrounded by colonial buildings and its museums. Lunch at a local restaurant. Accommodation and dinner at a local selected hotel.

Day 8: Trinidad - Varadero
Breakfast. Depart for Varadero. On arrival either transfer to a hotel if stay is extended or transfer to Varadero or Havana airport for the departure flight.