October 18

CUBA
October 18-24, 2016
Under license granted by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of
Foreign Assets Control, Tauck Tours has been providing “People to
People” Educational Exchange travel to Cuba since 2012. Their expert
experience will allow you to meet face-to-face with local residents
from various professions to share thoughts and gain insight about
their country and their lives, and connect with Cuba’s rich cultural
heritage throughout your stay in this Havana-based program.
You’ll travel to Cuba as an active participant engaged in educational
exchange with Cubans and their culture. Our journey begins and ends
in Miami and includes charter flights between Miami and Havana, all
meals in Cuba, all accommodations and gratuities, and the great value
and service you expect from Tauck. We hope you can join us on this
unique island tour. Space is limited, book online today or call!
Itinerary
(Included Meals: B-Breakfast L-Lunch D-Dinner)
Tuesday, October 18 Miami (D) Depart for Miami, Florida and transfer to
the Hyatt Regency Coral Gables hotel. We will have a welcome reception
and our Tauck Director’s briefing about tomorrow’s charter flight to Havana
and the start of our educational exchange trip to Cuba.
Wednesday, October 19 Miami-Havana ( B,L,D) Bienvenidos A La Habana!
Our Cuba travel begins as we board our charter flight to Havana’s Marti
International Airport where our Cuban guide greets us. We will drive to the
Museum of the Revolution, housed in the neo-Classical building that has
served as Cuba’s Presidential Palace from 1920-1959, for our first People to
People cultural exchange in Cuba. Our home for the next five nights, the
Melia Habana Hotel is located in the city’s Miramar section. After settling
into your Royal Service Room, we attend a discussion on U.S.–Cuban
relations at our hotel. This evening a drive along Havana’s seaside Malecon
to a local restaurant for tonight’s dinner orienting us with Cuba’s enigmatic
capital city. En route we will stop at the iconic Plaza de la Revolucion
dominated by a tower honoring 19th century Cuban patriot Jose Marti.
Thursday, October 20 Historic Havana & Community Arts (B,L,D) Begin
today with breakfast and proceed to Maqueta de la Habana, a museum
Trip Highlights
 Discussions with representatives from Cuban
community and arts organizations, educational
institutions and museums, community art
projects, architectural preservation organizations,
tobacco and cigar production facilities, baseball
organizations and much more.
 Exclusive Tauck Experience fostering meaningful
cultural connections with Cuban families, artists,
musicians, students , educators, agricultural
workers, artisans, entrepreneurs, community
leaders, baseball players and coaches and others.
Package Includes
 Round-trip charter flights Miami-Cuba
 Six nights accommodations: one night Hyatt
Regency Coral Gables, 5 nights Melia Habana
 Six days of “People to People educational exchange in Havana, Finca Vigia and Pinal del Rio
 17 Meals: 6 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 6 dinners
 Sightseeing and attractions as included in
itinerary
 Hotel luggage handling and taxes
 Escorted by Provident Travel staff
Passport
A passport valid for at least six months from your
return date is required for this tour.
Luggage
One piece of checked luggage is permitted along
with a small carry-on bag to fit above you or
beneath your seat on the motorcoach.
featuring a 1:500 scale model of Havana. Embark on a guided walking tour
through Habana Vieja, the city’s nearly 500-year old heart, now a
pedestrian-only UNESCO World Heritage Site. See Havana’s beautiful
Catedral de San Cristobal, begun under the Jesuits in 1748 and completed
by the Franciscans in 1777. At Projecto Muraleando, a barrio community
art project featuring murals and sculptures crafted from found items,
discuss the projects history and its impact with its artists and the
community members who benefit from this project. After lunch we arrive
at Habana Compas, a thriving Havana dance and cultural performance
group. Enjoy a demonstration of dance and music. This evening dinner is
included at leisure at a choice of hotel restaurants.
Friday, October 21 Cuban Baseball, Crafts & More (B,L,D) Today’s People
to People program in Havana begins with a close-up look at a cultural
passion shared by Cubans and Americans alike, the sport of baseball! After
a morning discussion about the history and traditions of baseball in Cuba
with highly regarded Cuban ballplayers, we head out to meet players,
coaches and parents of a local Little League baseball team. This afternoon
enjoy free time relaxing at our hotel or visiting Havana’s bustling San Jose
crafts market, housed in historic, restored warehouses built in the 1880’s.
Tonight, dinner is at a Havana paladar, one of Cuba’s many private homes.
Saturday, October 22 Agriculture in Pinar Del Rio & Vinales (B,L,D) This
morning we travel outside Havana to Pinar del Rio for a demonstration of
and discussion about the production process of Cuba’s most famous item,
Cuban cigars at a cigar factory. We continue across the countryside to the
tobacco fields of the Vinales Valley where we will meet with agriculture
workers about agrarian life in today’s Cuba. After lunch in a restaurant set
among the mogotes, we will meet the workers who process tobacco leaves
before they reach the factory at El Despalillo.
Sunday, October 23 Hemingway’s Cuba & Centro Habana (B,L,D) Today
we will walk with a local historian through Havana’s Colon Cemetery, one of
the largest in the world and the final resting place of noted Cubanos from
all walks of life. We will depart the city for Finca Vigia (“Lookout Farm”),
American novelist Ernest Heminways’s winter home from 1939 to 1960.
See the author’s 9,000-volume library, his beloved yacht ”Pilar”, and his
typewriter. Talk with a docent about his life and his strong connection to
Cuba and its people (who simply called him “Ernesto”). Lunch today is in a
cooking class where you will learn to prepare authentic ropa vieja, a Cuban
national dish, and make your own savory mojito. Later we will engage with
students and staff at Havana’s La Casa del Nino y la Nina (House of the Boy
& Girl), a community-sponsored educational outreach program for children
in the Centro Habana neighborhood of Cavo Hueso. This evening we have a
farewell rooftop reception and dinner at Parque Central in Havana.
Sunday, October 24 Journey Home (B) This morning transfer to Havana’s
airport for our included return charter flight to Miami where Tauck’s Cuba
People to People educational exchange program ends. Continue to our
connecting flight to our home cities.
Cost Per Person
Double Occupancy $5,890
Single Occupancy $6,611
A deposit of $800 per person is due with your
reservation. Balance due August 15, 2016.
Cancellation
Deposit-8/16/16
$600 per person
8/17/16-10/3/16
$900 per person
10/4/16-departure 100% of package price
Once issued, airline tickets are non-refundable.
Travel Protection
We strongly recommend Tauck’s Guest Protection
available at the rate of $350 per person. You may
cancel for any reason before tour departs and the
land portion of tour will be refunded less premium
and fees.
Once issued, airline tickets are
non-refundable but may be covered under Guest
Protection policy based on the reason for
cancellation. Non-refundable Guest Protection must
be purchased at time of initial deposit for coverage.
Airfare
Cincinnati group airfare to/from Miami is $450 per
person based on a minimum of ten travelers.
Responsibility: For Responsibility and Limitations clause,
please
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our
website
www.providentvacations.com/responsibility.html, refer to
our “We’re Going Places” mailer, request a written
statement of Responsibility and Limitations or review the
clause on your payment invoice. A minimum of 25
participants are required for Provident Travel Trip
Director. Operated in conjunction with Tauck Tours.
BOOK CUBA PACKAGE AND ROUND-TRIP
CINCINNATI-MIAMI GROUP AIRFARE BY
DECEMBER 31ST AND RECEIVE $100 OFF
PER PERSON.
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