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Unforgettable Cuba: Havana to Trinidad/Casilda April 8–15, 2017 UNFORGETTABLE CUBA A PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE JOURNEY with Diane Rehm on the sailing yacht Panorama APRIL 8 –15, 2017 EARLY BOOKING SAVINGS: Save $500 per couple and receive free airfare from Miami when you book and pay in full by November 30, 2016 (see pricing page for details) UNFORGETTABLE CUBA A PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE JOURNEY Now that it’s possible to see Cuba for yourself, join us on this enlightening journey to Havana and beyond! Enjoy the tropics and the Caribbean, dance to the captivating sounds of salsa, and admire the prized classic cars. We’ll go beyond that, meeting Cubans and gaining insight into their work and lives. The focus of your visit will be daily engagement with the warm and welcoming people of this island nation: teachers, sculptors, organic farmers, musicians and naturalists. Traveling on the hospitable 48-guest motorsailor Panorama , you’ll be with a Cuban guide and with Diane Rehm, who as host of The Diane Rehm Show has held broadcast conversations about people’s ways and views for over 30 years. This People-to-People program is offered in conjunction with IST, an authorized agency. We’ll board in Havana and disembark in Trinidad, a Spanish colonial city on the island’s south coast. Between are historic cities, wildlife preserves, farms, mountains, seacoast, and music nearly everywhere. Come and discover Cuba’s cities and countryside, its traditions and innovations, and most of all its extraordinary people. www.ccjourneys.com l 800.491.1148 l www.smallshiptravel.com 1 A message from Diane Rehm For the last fifty years Cuba has meals aboard we’ll have several dinners and been so close but so distant! most lunches at restaurants, including the Many changes are underway, privately-owned paladares that are a new and we’ll witness them first-hand feature of Cuban life. on this week-long journey. Join On our itinerary are four UNESCO World me in April to discover this Heritage Sites: Old Havana, the “museum city” island nation past and present. Spend several of Trinidad, Cienfuegos, designed by French days in vibrant Havana; then set out to visit three settlers, and the Viñales Valley, where nature has diverse smaller cities and some extraordinary sculpted the limestone and organically grown natural sites. We’ll enjoy music and dance crops are flourishing. Everywhere we’ll hear performances, visit an organic farm, galleries, music, as abundant and colorful as Cuba itself! a school, Ernest Hemingway’s beloved Finca Vigia and a shop where classic U.S. cars are The pleasures of discovery and insight await us, maintained. There will be opportunities to as do the pleasures of landscape, seascape speak with the people who bring their creative and life aboard. The ship accommodates just spirit to all these enterprises. 48 travelers, and interest in Cuba in this time of transformation is high. To reserve the cabin We’ll travel aboard the three-masted sailing of your choice, call Cross-Culture Journeys at yacht Panorama , spending six nights on the ship 800.491.1148 today! and one at a hotel in a seaside village. A Cuban guide and a seasoned Program Manager will Diane Rehm travel with us throughout. Along with the Host/Executive Producer, The Diane Rehm Show 2 Unforgettable Cuba: Havana to Trinidad/Casilda April 8–15, 2017 Saturday, April 8 an orientation briefing, gather for a reception and your first FLIGHT TO HAVANA • OVERVIEW OF CITY • VISIT HEMINGWAY’S FINCA VIGIA • LUNCH dinner aboard. L/D AT A PALADAR • GARAGE FOR MID-CENTURY Gulf of Mexico U.S. CARS • HABANA COMPÁS DANCE • Note: To reach Havana this Havana EMBARK PANORAMA • ORIENTATION & morning, you may need to arrive WELCOME DINNER the previous day at the airport CUBA Board your flight to Havana’s José Martí International where your Havana flight departs. Gulf of Batabanó Cienfuegos Airport, where you will be met and accompanied to Cross-Culture will be glad to make Nueva Gerona Trinidad the city center. A panoramic tour will introduce you reservations for your domestic Maria la Gorda to landmarks including the Plaza de la Revolución flights as well as your flights Casilda and the Malencon, the esplanade along the sea wall. between the U.S. and Cuba, and Isla de la Havana is arguably the best-preserved Spanish Land Route Juventud Caribbean to reserve a room at a suitable Cruise Route Sea colonial city in the Americas, with many of its stately hotel near the connecting airport Flight Path palaces now housing museums. Since Old Havana (Miami, Atlanta or another, Cruise route is approximate. (Habana Vieja) was named a UNESCO World depending on your route) for Heritage Site in 1982, many buildings have been Friday, April 7. restored and others are in progress. Average temperature and precipitation Sunday, April 9 ranges in season (in degrees Fahrenheit) We’ll drive to the small town of San Francisco de City High Low Precipitation Paula, about ten miles from Havana, to see Finca WALKING TOUR OF OLD HAVANA • Vigia, Ernest Hemingway’s beloved home from 1939 FUSTERLANDIA • LUNCH AT A PALADAR • Havana 86 66 0.6 ART STUDIO & MARKET • DINNER AT to 1960. Lunch will be at a paladar, one of the CAFÉ TABERNA (OR SIMILAR) Maria la Gorda 82 68 0.8 privately-owned restaurants now permitted in Cuba. After breakfast, take a walking tour of Old Havana Cienfuegos 70 64 0.8 Then visit a garage devoted to maintaining the to see the beautiful baroque and neo-classical U.S.-made cars of the 1950s that have served Cubans monuments, arcades and balconies around the main ever since. They are emblems of style and of ingenuity, squares. The buildings that line the Plaza Vieja the neighborhood that it’s called “Fusterlandia.” having been preserved and adapted over a half-century span four centuries. Among the highlights are the The exuberant style of his ceramic and other work even though U.S. car parts were unavailable. We’ll Catedral de San Cristóbal, the Governors’ Palace is inspired by Gaudí and Brancusi, with the powerful also enjoy a performance by dancers and musicians that is now the City Museum, the St. Francis Basilica stamp of Picasso hovering in the background. from Habana Compás Dance, whose choreography and the National Theater. Nearby is the fortress combines contemporary styles with Latin American Lunch today will be at a different paladar. We'll built by Spain in 1558 to repel pirate attacks. folk dance, flamenco gestures and all the rhythm visit The-Merger Art Studio, where the focus is sources at hand. Visit the seaside barrio of Jaimanitas to see the on steel-and-plexiglass sculptures that draw on work of artist José Rodriguez Fuster. His ceramic popular culture. The three artists who formed In the late afternoon embark Panorama at the Sea tile roofs, walls, doorways and benches so define Terminal in Havana Harbor. After the boat drill and 3 — TOUR INCLUSIONS — • Cost of round-trip airfare from Miami (whether or not • Services of a Tour Manager from IST and a you fly to Cuba from MIA), with airport-ship transfers Cross-Culture Journeys/Small Ship Travel host in Havana and Cienfuegos-Trinidad • A Cuban guide who will sail with the group and escort • Six nights accommodation in cabin on motorsailor land excursions throughout the trip Panorama • Daily people-to-people interaction in workplaces, art • One night accommodation at Hotel Maria la Gorda and performance studios, and homes on Guanahacabibes Peninsula • Visits to sites of interest including four UNESCO World • All meals (roughly half the lunches/dinners at Heritage Sites restaurants; other meals on board) • On-board programs including discussions with public • Selected alcoholic beverages and soft drinks with radio host Diane Rehm lunch and dinner on board • Mandatory Cuban medical insurance • Land transportation in private coach as indicated • Pre-departure materials including reading lists and in the itinerary packing suggestions • Luggage handling, with gratuity, for one bag per person — NOT INCLUDED — • Cost of airfare between home airport • Gratuities for ship staff, excursion • Excess baggage charges and Miami (whether or not you fly guides, site guides and drivers • Visa ($75) and passport expenses from MIA) • Personal expenses such phone • Travel insurance • Port charges and taxes of $410 charges or Wi-fi use — ACCOMMODATIONS — LOCATION ACCOMMODATIONS RATING (Hotel & Travel Index) Cruise Sailing yacht Panorama Superior First Class equivalent Guanahacabibes Peninsula Hotel Maria la Gorda Not rated www.ccjourneys.com l 800.491.1148 l www.smallshiptravel.com 4 See our website for full terms and conditions. The organic farming program began in Cuba in the 1990s, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when the island had to feed its population and maintain its farmland. Farm staff will elaborate on this initiative during your visit. From the Viñales Valley we’ll drive to Maria la Gorda, a settlement at the southwest corner of the island best known as a diving center. We will check in at the Hotel Maria la Gorda for the night and meet Panorama here tomorrow. B/L/D Tuesday, April 11 VISIT RURAL SCHOOL • GUANAHACABIBES NATIONAL PARK • BEACH BARBECUE • SAIL FOR ISLA DE LA JUVENTUD Drive to the village of San Juan del Valle, where we will visit the local school and meet children and their teachers. Take part in a people-to-people exchange on differences between the educational systems of Cuba and the U.S., especially in rural schools. The-Merger in 2009 now work “across the divide,” two around the west end of Cuba to Maria la Gorda, we will in Havana and one in Miami. Later we’ll have some drive through the beautiful Viñales Valley with time for We’ll visit Guanahacabibes National Park, part of time to wander the San José Arts and Crafts Market, activities as described below, and will spend the night at the the Biosphere Reserve established in 1987 on the Havana’s major market for art and decorative objects, Hotel Maria la Gorda.
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