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Cuba Highlights and Hammocks

Balance Cuba’s lively culture and bewitching natural beauty with a stint in sun-kissed paradise. Amble through aromatic coffee plantations, dance salsa on church steps and top it all off on a castaway tropical island. Be…

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Cuba Highlights and Hammocks
Duration15 days / 14 nights
TypeCircuit
DestinationsCuba

Overview

Balance Cuba’s lively culture and bewitching natural beauty with a stint in sun-kissed paradise. Amble through aromatic coffee plantations, dance salsa on church steps and top it all off on a castaway tropical island. Beginning in the crumbling backstreets and shady plazas of Old Havana, you’ll travel to Las Terazzas, an eye-opening eco-project buried in beautiful scenery. Next, you’ll hit the tobacco hills, riding horseback through rich green valleys. After relaxing into the rhythm of spirited Trinidad, you’ll end up on a gorgeous beach that puts travel brochures to shame.

Itinerary

1Arrival – Havana

Upon arrival to Havana airport, meet, greet and transfer to the local family

2Havana

Havana has a distinct, exotic personality that you won’t find anywhere else on the planet

Spend two nights in the heart of timeless Old Havana; a mix of crumbling colonial beauty, peeling bygone glamour and colossal Caribbean soul, it’s a law unto itself

Rumba music bounces between the brightly painted buildings and Latino life breathes from every balcony

It really has to be seen to be believed

3-4Havana – Las Terrazas

Las Terrazas, Cuba’s pioneering eco-village is a beautiful natural playground just begging to be explored

Walk to hidden waterfalls, get to know the forest on foot and discover how coffee is grown

During this trip, you’ll spend 2 nights tucked away in the trees of Las Terrazas, staying in a truly unique resort built around a giant tree

Now protected under UNESCO biosphere status, the area is an example of eco-tourism at its very best

5-6Las Terrazas – Vinales

This morning you’ll travel to the tobacco town of Viñales, the journey will take you through one of Cuba’s most beautiful provinces

Horseback riding through the rolling hills of Viñales, Cuba’s rustic cigar region. A stubborn, scenic village that refuses to be changed by tourism, Viñales feels totally timeless

You’ll explore the valley on horseback and on foot, learning about the art of cigar-rolling and meet the local guajiros

If you’re looking for an authentic experience, you’ve found it

7Cienfuegos

Cienfuegos is known for its French architecture located around the central square.

It’s a lovely city and small enough to explore on foot. Stop off for a drink at one of the bars on Parque Marti as the sounds of Cuban music fill the air.

Whilst you’re there you can visit the former casino Palacio de Valle.

You’ll spend the night in a cosy hotel in the city centre. In the early evening take a stroll over to the beach where the local residents come together to watch the sun go down

8-9Cienfuegos - Santa Clara - Trinidad

Get lost in a colonial daydream and dust off your dancing shoes on the cobbled streets of Trinidad

During this trip, you’ll spend one night in Santa Clara on your way to Trinidad, for a visit to Che Guevara’s mausoleum.

In Trinidad you’ll spend two nights with a family in a traditional Casa Particular. You’ll take a bici-taxi tour with a local guide, getting you into the groove of this creative, colorful and quirky city

10-14Cayo Las Brujas

Feel deliciously stranded in abandoned island paradise on quiet Cayo las Brujas A sleepy stretch of powdery sand with only one hotel, it’s the ultimate barefoot escape.

There really is nothing to do here and that’s precisely why we love it

Lie back, stretch out and let the sunshine do the rest. Dotted off Cuba’s northern coast, the Sabana archipelago is a dreamy, drowsy handful of islands reachable by bridge from the mainland

Think perfect, wind-swept shores, swaying palms, mangrove forests and very little else

15Cayo Las Brujas – Havana – Departure

Transfer to Havana airport for your departure flight

Included

  • Round trip ticket to Havana (economy class)
  • Round trip transfer: airport - hotel – airport
  • 14-night accommodation at hotel
  • Meals: daily breakfast
  • Half day tour of the modern areas of Havana
  • Full day visit of Las Terrazas
  • Full day visit of Cienfuegos
  • Two half days visit of Trinidad
  • Two full days visiting Cayo Las Brujas
  • All transfers in air conditioned coach
  • English speaking local guide
  • Assistance of our representative in Cuba

Not included

  • Airport taxes
  • Fuel surcharge
  • Optional Tours
  • Travel insurance
  • All other expenses