C A A CULTURAL ODYSSEY


1. ARRIVE MIAMI Tauck’s People-to-People Cuba trip begins at 4:00 PM at the Hyatt Regency Coral Gables. Travelers flying to Miami should plan to arrive at Miami International Airport by 2:00 PM, and take a Yellow Taxi from the airport to the Hyatt Regency Coral Gables (for an average fee of USD $20 plus tip, for which you will be reimbursed by your Tauck Director). Your small group of 20 to 30 travelers gathers this afternoon at the Hyatt Regency Coral Gables for a welcome reception and Tauck Director briefing about tomorrow morning’s included charter flight to Havana and the start of your educational exchange trip to Cuba; an à la carte dinner is included this evening. Meals D


2. BIENVENIDOS A LA HABANA After an early breakfast, board an included charter flight from Miami to Havana’s José Martí International Airport, where your local Cuban guide welcomes you to Cuba’s enigmatic capital city. From the airport, drive to the Museum of the Revolution, housed in what was once Cuba’s Presidential Palace, for a visit and your first People-to-People cultural exchange. Continue on to the Meliá Habana and enjoy a welcome drink and lunch


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at the hotel’s La Scala restaurant. After lunch, you’ll have time to check into your room in “The Level” and settle in before attending a discussion about U.S. – Cuban relations at the hotel. Your travel to this evening’s à la carte dinner at a local restaurant includes a drive along the Malecón – Havana’s popular waterfront boulevard – and a stop at Plaza de la Revolución (Revolution Square), dominated by a memorial tower honoring 19th-century Cuban patriot José Martí, and huge metalwork portraits of national heroes Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos adorning two buildings. Meals BLD


3. COLÓN CEMETERY & HEMINGWAY’S CUBA With Cuba’s origins as a Spanish colony rooted in Catholic traditions, religion has played an important role in its society – as you’ll see on a walk with a local historian through Havana’s Colón Cemetery, one of the world’s largest, and the final resting place of noted Cubanos from all walks of life. The cemetery contains hundreds of elaborately sculpted memorials, mausoleums, chapels and family vaults, and is considered by many the most ornate necropolis in the world. Depart the city for Finca Vigia (“Lookout Farm”) in San Francisco de Paula,


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