Cuba tours
| country: | Cuba |
| departures: | Our Cuba tours can be tailor-made and departures can be arranged all year. The sample itinerary below can be modified to your personal wishes including departure date, duration, accommodation used & how long you spend in each destination |
| price: | From €640 (15 days) excluding flights and rental car based on 2 persons traveling |
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the amazing things you'll be doing
These Cuba tours take you to the Pearl of The Caribbean with the best individual programs available to experience Cuban nature & culture.
Cuba is a beautiful island surrounded by sandy beaches, coral reefs and blue waters. It has a very specific vibration of its own - the Cuban people show a playfulness and a joy which is remarkable. They celebrate life with humour, love and passion.
The nature on Cuba is still very pure, the people a discovery for the heart - Travelling in Cuba is an eye and heart opener, suitable for couples, honeymoons, friends and families alike.
Cuba has the potential to show us something: the dream, how it all started, how it went and what is needed to realize a new way of organizing our global economy. Cuba can have a great future. Most of the people are highly educated and aware of social values. Cuba needs however the space and time to adjust in its own rhythm and to develop its society to the human needs and values of today in all freedom. We are specialists in nature & travelling in Cuba.
Example itinerary - Cuba tours: Roundtrip West Cuba with rental car, from €640 (15 days) (min. 2 persons) including private excursions, excluding car rental & flights
The accommodation is based on Cuban hotels, all selected for a spectacular view or a specific setting and atmosphere. If you prefer to stay in carefully selected "casas particulares" (private homes of Cuban families) instead of a hotel, or have an interesting mixture of both, we can arrange all your reservations.
Other options
Cuba is a beautiful island surrounded by sandy beaches, coral reefs and blue waters. It has a very specific vibration of its own - the Cuban people show a playfulness and a joy which is remarkable. They celebrate life with humour, love and passion.
The nature on Cuba is still very pure, the people a discovery for the heart - Travelling in Cuba is an eye and heart opener, suitable for couples, honeymoons, friends and families alike.
Cuba has the potential to show us something: the dream, how it all started, how it went and what is needed to realize a new way of organizing our global economy. Cuba can have a great future. Most of the people are highly educated and aware of social values. Cuba needs however the space and time to adjust in its own rhythm and to develop its society to the human needs and values of today in all freedom. We are specialists in nature & travelling in Cuba.
Example itinerary - Cuba tours: Roundtrip West Cuba with rental car, from €640 (15 days) (min. 2 persons) including private excursions, excluding car rental & flights
The accommodation is based on Cuban hotels, all selected for a spectacular view or a specific setting and atmosphere. If you prefer to stay in carefully selected "casas particulares" (private homes of Cuban families) instead of a hotel, or have an interesting mixture of both, we can arrange all your reservations.
Other options
- Cuba tours: Roundtrip 15 days West Cuba by bus, from €675 per person (min. 2 persons), including accommodation (based on Cuban hotels), bus transfers & private excursions. Private houses can be included as part of a tailor made arrangement.
- Cuba tours: Roundtrip 21 days West & East Cuba with rental car, from €1100 per person (min. 2 persons) including accommodation (based on Cuban hotels), private excursions & domestic flight Santiago-Havana. Price excludes rental car (17 days), international flights. Private houses can be included as part of a tailor made arrangement.
- Cuba tours: Roundtrip to Trinidad (8 or more days) by bus or rental car (min. 2 persons).
- Cuba tours: Roundtrip East Cuba (8 or more days) by rental car or bus, (min. 2 persons), ex car rental & flights. Starting & ending in Holguin or Santiago.
- Cuba tours: Beach life, snorkelling & diving tailor made programmes - Cayo Levisa, Maria la Gorda International diving center (4th best diving location of Latin America), Playa Giron diving center, Cayo las Brujas, Guardalavaca, Cayo Largo, Playa Santa Lucia, Cayo Setia (min. 2 persons).
- Cuba tours: Catamaran excursions, from 1 day (Trinidad to Cayo Leguano, in a group) to several days (private trip).
- Cuba tours: Hiking in the Sierra Escambray with private guide from 1 to 3 days, with full board, hacienda accommodation & all transfers.
- Cuba tours: Hiking in Viñales with a private guide from 1 to 2 days, staying with a Cuban family & sleeping overnight in tobacco house. Possible crossing of Mogote mountain through cave system.
- Cuba tours: Hiking in Soroa with private guide. Specially designed one day trek to cross the tropical forest, visit farmers & local schools.
- Cuba tours: Horseback rides & treks (1-3 days) in Valle Ingenios-Sierra, Trinidad.
- Cuba tours: Birdwatching with ornithologist (1-4 days) in Soroa & Zapata Peninsula
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | You will be met by our agent on arrival on the airport and brought to your hotel in Havana. Your hotel Park View (or a comparable hotel of the same level & atmosphere) is situated in the cosy centre of Havana near the Museum of the Revolution. |
| Day 2-3: | These two days you can use to visit fascinating Old Havana, which has been adopted as Heritage of Mankind: stroll through the streets, go shopping for hand made clothes, visit colonial houses with large patios, the famous places of Ernest Hemmingway, Museum of Revolution, handicraft market and much more. You can also use one day to go to the beach a little further away from the old centre. A local English speaking guide and/or driver can be arranged for one or two days. |
| Day 4: | In the morning you pick up your car in Havana and then drive to Pinar del Rio from where you continue to the spectacular landscape of Viñales. Your hotel La Ermita is situated on a hill & has a spectacular view over the valley of the “mogotes”. These are calcareous rock formations full of caves & hidden streams. |
| Day 5-7: | You will have one guided day through the valley of Viñales and experience the life of the tobacco farmers, the cultivation of tobacco, and see the “mogotes” , their caves and their peculiar ecosystems from near. You can use one day for the optional crossing of a “mogote” by La Cueva del Cable and/or visit another part of the valley, visit a tobacco warehouse where the leaves are prepared, or go to the tropical beach of the island Cayo Levisa. |
| Day 8: | Today you drive to Soroa. You can visit a tobacco factory in Pinar del Rio, where the tobacco leaves are made into cigars. The province of Pinar del Rio is world famous for the quality of the tobacco. The hotel of Soroa is surrounded by tropical vegetation, has a large swimming pool and as soon as the night falls you hear the cosy sounds of beetles and glass frogs. |
| Day 9: | You take a botanical walk with a local guide through the bio reservate of Sierra del Rosario. You can watch birds, visit the ruins of an old French coffee plantation, and take a stroll through the orchid garden or take a dive in the waterfall of Soroa at the end of the day. |
| Day 10: | You drive from Soroa to Trinidad and if you want you can make a detour along the Bahio Cochinos or famous Pigs Bay. You can take a dive in the sea and discover all kind of fishes in an enchanting sea cave while the lunch is prepared. At the end of the midday you will arrive in Trinidad, one of the most beautiful colonial villages in Latin America. In the evening you can enjoy your dinner in a paladar and immerse yourself in the nightlife and salsa feeling of Trinidad. According to your choice you stay in one of the hotels downtown, near the village of Trinidad, at the beach of Playa Ancon, or with a Cuban family in downtown Trinidad. |
| Day 11-13: | Trinidad and its surroundings have great things to offer to complete your holiday. You drive into the steep mountains of Sierra Escambray and meet your guide to make a botanical walk through the tropical green mountains. You visit a botanical garden, the cave La Batata from where you can make a swimming excursion through the river flowing through an open cave, you visit a coffee hacienda and a hacienda where you will have lunch. From here you continue to an orchid garden, a walk through a cave with bats and a spectacular view on Trinidad and the Caribbean coastline. The other days you can arrange an excursion to go on horseback riding to the waterfalls & cave of Trinidad, go to the beach of Ancona or book with us for a full day excursion by catamaran to Cayo Leguano, snorkel around the coral reefs and enjoy the tropical beaches & mangrove forests. |
| Day 14: | Your return travel to Havana where you deliver your car. You will stay again hotel Park View (or a comparable hotel of the same level & ambiance). |
| Day 15: | You will be picked up at your hotel and be brought to the airport for your international flight. |
travellers' tales
The highlight of our trek was lunch in an old plantation house. There the lady of the house and her son treated us to rum cocktails, fresh coconut drunk through a bamboo straw, a variety of fresh fruits and the most delicious meal of our holiday cooked over a wood fire in the yard. (more)
how this holiday makes a difference
These Cuba tours are designed & offered by ecological guides who work & live in Latin America, and have been guiding in the Caribbean for many years. They can arrange all details of your travel and design special tailor made travels for Cuba. These Cuba tours give a unique insight into the Cuban nature & culture, and with booking you support a small local operator. This company supports several families with children with clothes, medicaments, books, second hand luxury articles, purchases of their handicrafts, and donations.
On our Cuba tours all walks and treks are guided by local ecological guides and organized by local organisations. A holiday to Cuba off the beaten tracks with local guides brings income to local Cuban people and their families. The Cuban people are very aware that it is important to take care of its beautiful nature, as it is one of the main attractions for tourists, and tourism is the main income nowadays of Cuba. By making use of ecological excursions during your travel on Cuba, you support the people to continue with taking care of their natural reserves.
With booking for an individual Cuba tour you receive a Cuba Manual with all kind of information to help you finding your way and create your dream holiday on Cuba.
When you visit farmers during your excursion, we ask participants, if appropriate, to donate luxury articles like ballpoints, soap and shampoo, buy some coffee and/or leave a donation. When you make use of local accommodation in the form of casas particulares, you directly support that family and make sure that the income gets ploughed back into Cuban society. In East Cuba you can collect clothes, shoes and toiletries to donate to a Cuban organization, which supports people from the countryside with no resources. You can also leave clothes, mountain shoes, toiletries or other articles with your local guides after the excursion.
You can compensate the CO2 emmisions of your flights with ClimateCare, GreenSeat, or more cost and travel effective solutions. (Interested? Contact us for more information).
On our Cuba tours all walks and treks are guided by local ecological guides and organized by local organisations. A holiday to Cuba off the beaten tracks with local guides brings income to local Cuban people and their families. The Cuban people are very aware that it is important to take care of its beautiful nature, as it is one of the main attractions for tourists, and tourism is the main income nowadays of Cuba. By making use of ecological excursions during your travel on Cuba, you support the people to continue with taking care of their natural reserves.
With booking for an individual Cuba tour you receive a Cuba Manual with all kind of information to help you finding your way and create your dream holiday on Cuba.
When you visit farmers during your excursion, we ask participants, if appropriate, to donate luxury articles like ballpoints, soap and shampoo, buy some coffee and/or leave a donation. When you make use of local accommodation in the form of casas particulares, you directly support that family and make sure that the income gets ploughed back into Cuban society. In East Cuba you can collect clothes, shoes and toiletries to donate to a Cuban organization, which supports people from the countryside with no resources. You can also leave clothes, mountain shoes, toiletries or other articles with your local guides after the excursion.
You can compensate the CO2 emmisions of your flights with ClimateCare, GreenSeat, or more cost and travel effective solutions. (Interested? Contact us for more information).