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Globalrelations.Ourcuba.Com Cleveland Ballet in Havana GlobalRelations.OurCuba.com 1-815-842-2475 Cleveland Ballet in Havana In Cuba from Thursday February 27th to Monday March 2, 2020 Day 1 – Thursday :: Arrive Cuba, Iconic Hotel, welcome dinner and evening to explore Depart to Havana via your own arranged flights. You should plan arriving Havana by mid-afternoon. It may take you some time to clear Cuban Immigration, get your bag and go through Customs. You will be met in the arrival hall, after clearing Customs, by our Cuban representative holding a ‘Cuba Explorer’ sign to take you to your hotel. They will have your name and will be monitoring your flight arrival in case there is a delay. Your first tour activity will be the welcome dinner and your guide will finalize details with you on arrival to your hotel. On departure from Cuba you will be asked to be at the airport 3 hours in advance. Havana’s International Airport arrival hall does have bathrooms. They may not have seats or tissue. This is normal in Cuba, so you may wish to bring packets of tissues. It is suggested to use the restroom on your flight before landing. On arrival at Havana’s José Martí International Airport proceed through Immigration. Your carry-on will once again be scanned. Give your ‘Health’ form to the nurses in white uniforms after you go through Immigration & screening. The important question they may ask is if you have been exposed to Ebola. Collect your bags and go through Customs giving them your blue customs form. You will be welcomed at the airport exterior lobby after you exit Cuban Customs. Look for the person holding signage of ‘Cuba Explore.’ Tour participant’s arrival times may vary throughout the day. Individualized Airport transfers will be arranged. You're gonna love Cuba Copyright © 1997-2021. All rights reserved. Like us on facebook GlobalRelations.OurCuba.com 1-815-842-2475 You can change your money into CUC (the convertible currency used on the island) at the airport on arrival, at a Cuban bank, an official exchange bureau or at your hotel. Your guide will be of assistance. Your passport is necessary to exchange currency. Do not exchange money on the street or with an individual Cuban. Quote from Lonely Planet: “No one could have invented Havana. It’s too audacious, too contradictory and – despite 50 years of withering neglect – too damned beautiful. How it does it is anyone’s guess. Maybe it’s the swashbuckling history still almost perceptible in atmospheric colonial streets; the survivalist spirit of a populace scarred by two independence wars, a revolution and a US trade embargo; or the indefatigable salsa energy that ricochets off walls and emanates most emphatically from the people. Don’t come here with a long list of questions. Just arrive with an open mind and prepare for a long, slow seduction.” Private transfer to Hotel Nacional check-in; relaxing time to visit the garden, walk the site depicted in the Godfather Part II movie, enjoy a cigar, a mojito or just have a rest on the veranda where some of the world’s most interesting personalities’ have taken a break while the winds from the Straits of Florida breeze by. Enjoy a welcome cocktail (Included) after your check-in. Free time to settle in and get oriented with your hotel. At the Hotel Nacional and at your leisure stroll by cannons of battles from the 1800’s. Also, visit the bunkers used during the Cuban Missile Crisis, built overlooking the Malecon and the Straits of Florida to Key West. For 13 days in October 1962 the world hinged on the brink of a nuclear war. The epicenter of the conflict was on the island you will be standing. Diplomatic understandings were formulated, treaties were contemplated, blockades occurred, embargoes were strengthened and international legal precedent was challenged. You can go through the bunkers and trenches and be briefed on the happenings of that complex time. Welcome dinner will be at Café Laurent where you will enjoy an excellent meal and view of Havana. This boutique paladar evokes a fine tropical island experience of days gone by. (Included) La Zorra y El Cuervo (the Fox & the Crow) is one of the best jazz clubs in Havana. It is one and half blocks from Hotel Nacional. The small, intimate, place is packed every night. The entrance is through a British telephone booth to get to the the underground nightclub. Some suggest arriving before 10pm to get in for the nightly show which starts around 11pm. Entrance is generally 10 CUC and includes 2 drinks. (Optional) Day 2 – Friday :: Presentation on the Arts, Old Havana tour, Museum of You're gonna love Cuba Copyright © 1997-2021. All rights reserved. Like us on facebook GlobalRelations.OurCuba.com 1-815-842-2475 Rum, Marine warehouse and shopping, Opening Night performance of Romeo & Juliet Breakfast in hotel. (Included) Visit the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, UNEAC). It is a social, cultural and professional organization of writers, musicians, actors, painters, sculptors and artist. Founded in 1961 their objective was uniting the intellectuals within the young Cuban Revolution to maintain a genuine Cuban culture. (Included) Walking tour of Old Havana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You will visit the historic plazas that make Havana unique in the western hemisphere. It contains the largest collection of remaining colonial-era architecture. Meet the private street vendors selling souvenirs out of their homes. This is a private tour led by your Cuba Tours’ guide. (Included) San Francisco Square, one of the oldest plazas in the historical quarter. The square is named after magnificent Iglesia y Monasterio de San Francisco de Asís dating from the 16th century. The basilica is a striking example of Cuban baroque architecture. Visit the Museum of Chocolate, a small shop with intriguing artifacts relating to the history of chocolate production in Cuba. You can watch chocolates being made at the back of the premises while you sip a warming cup of hot chocolate or a soothing glass of cold chocolate. The Museo del Chocolate also sells artisanal chocolates singly or boxed. (Optional, Included) Plaza Vieja, the only civic square of colonial times. Absent are churches and government buildings and is in contrast surrounded by opulent aristocratic 17th century residences. Visit the cigar shop La Casa del Habano which may be the best cigar shop in Old Havana. It is hidden on the mezzanine which was once slave quarters. Cigar aficionados can enjoy the patio with its vegetation, mahogany rocking chairs and peacocks. The building was the colonial mansion of the Count of Villanueva, leader of the creole Havana society in the 19th century. (Optional, Included) Square of Arms, a military parade ground for Spanish soldiers, surrounded by impressive buildings. Visit La Casa de los Artistas, Estudio La Mina the studio-workshop and exhibition space for five of the significant figures of Cuban art: Zaida Del Rio, Angel Ramirez, Carlos Guzmán, Ernesto Rancaño, Pedro Pablo Oliva and Roberto Fabelo. The colonial mansion that houses the art studio was built in the sixteenth century and was the residence of the bishops of Havana. (Optional, Included) You're gonna love Cuba Copyright © 1997-2021. All rights reserved. Like us on facebook GlobalRelations.OurCuba.com 1-815-842-2475 Cathedral Square, the most beautiful and private 18th century colonial plaza on the island. Named after the masterpiece of Cuban baroque architecture: the Catedral de San Cristóbal de la Habana, was built by the Jesuit order. As you stroll through the historic cobblestone streets of Old Havana you will experience the sensations Ernest Hemingway felt and those of the colonialists’ centuries earlier. Lunch at Mojito Mojito private restaurant, great Cuban food and just off of Plaza Vieja in Old Havana. You will enjoy a wonderful meal, live music and friendly staff. (Included) Visit the Museum of Rum. An important cultural site where historians affirmed it was built in the 17th century (1772-1780). Your guide will show you all the steps in the manufacture of the original Cuban rum. The explanation goes from the raw material in the sugar cane field, history, slavery and up to today’s distribution. In conclusion you will enjoy a toast with Havana Club rum in the tasting bar. (Included) The shop has all the options of Havana Club available for purchase. Time to shop for souvenirs at Centro Cultural Antiguos Almacenes de Depósito San José, a large craft market offering some of the most iconic objects of Havana: garish-colored paintings by local artists, guayaberas (short-sleeve, open-neck Cuban shirts), sculptures, leather, jewelry, and various trinkets & gadgets bearing the image of Che Guevara. The souvenirs are high quality, which is why you will see as many locals as tourists among the shoppers. The metal-framed structure itself, an old, fully renovated maritime warehouse, very retro and Art Deco, is worth the visit alone. (Included) Return to hotel to freshen up for the evening. Transport to the Teatro Nacional de Cuba, located on the Plaza de la Revolución, boasts excellent acoustics and is equipped with modern technology in lighting, stage and sound. Opening night for the Cleveland Havana Ballet Project performance of Romeo & Juliet at the Teatro Nacional De Cuba. (Tickets Included) Dinner with the Verb Ballets Cuba Tour performers who are in Havana, at the paladar La Casa, private restaurant, one of the earliest established in Cuba and still in the original home. (Included) Transport to the hotel. Day 3 – Saturday :: Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso, National Capitol, afternoon to explore and Tropicana Cabaret Breakfast in hotel.
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