UNA PINCELADA CUBANA

DAY 1.



• Breakfast.
• Pick-up at the hotel.
• Excursion to Las Terrazas, an eco-friendly project located in the Sierra del Rosario declared by UNESCO a Biosphere Reserve where you can enjoy Cuba’s native flora and fauna and the natural beauty of the area. Upon arrival, welcome at Rancho Curujey, including a welcome cocktail accompanied by a local group playing traditional Cuban music. Explanation of the social project carried out in this community, supported by illustrative images.
• Visit to the Las Terrazas community: stroll along Callejón de la Moka and enjoy a tasting of Cuban “café criollo” (creole coffee).
• Visit to the Buenavista coffee plantation, a partially restored 19th-century coffee hacienda.
• Lunch at one of the restaurants in the complex.
• Visit to the San Juan River, with free time to enjoy a refreshing swim.
• Continue travel to Viñales. Check-in and dinner at the Polo hotel.
• Free evening.

DAY 2.



• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Tour of the Viñales Valley, declared a UNESCO Protected Cultural Landscape and a National Monument. Visit a local farmer’s property; the visit includes the Tobacco Route, offering an interactive way to enjoy all the stages this product goes through—from the tobacco plantations and the drying process in the open air (on the drying yard), to the leaf stripping (despalillo) and rolling of the cigar tobacco.
• Visit the Mural of Prehistory, one of the most important open-air frescoes in the world, which recreates, on the slope of a mogote, the natural evolution of life in Cuba.
• Lunch at a local restaurant.
• Next, visit the Mirador de los Jazmines, where you can admire a spectacular view over the Viñales Valley.
• Optional visit (NOT INCLUDED) to the Cueva del Indio (Indian Cave), with a boat ride through the cave along the river that flows inside it.
• Accommodation and dinner at the polo hotel.
• Free evening.

DAY 3.

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Depart for Havana.
• En route: sightseeing through Soroa, with a visit to the Orquideario (Orchid Garden), home to Cuba’s largest and most diverse collection of these specimens, featuring about 130 native species and 700 from tropical and subtropical regions around the world.
• Visit the Soroa Waterfall, 22 meters high, considered one of the wonders of Cuban geography.
• Lunch at a local restaurant.
• After that, continue on to Havana.
• Accommodation at the selected hotel (by the T.O.).