A structured itinerary is the only way to visit legally. Groups of a maximum of 24 people<\/b> are escorted to, for example, a tobacco farm where you actually meet the farmer and his family and you can ask questions about growing and producing tobacco. After listening to concerts or musicians\u2014you get to meet and talk with them as well. When dining, you get to meet the \u201cpaladar\u201d owner and ask questions about owning a business in Cuba. Restaurateurs and foodies will love the opportunity to gain insight\u2014and possibly exchange recipes.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a complete submersion into a country that has stood still in time and been a mystery to many. Because this is such a unique opportunity, every effort has been taken to maximize the schedule.\u00a0 This is as much\u00a0an opportunity for the Cuban people to\u00a0learn from you as it is for you to\u00a0learn from them.\u00a0 With such a full schedule don’t expect to ditch the group one day and hit the beach, however,\u00a0in early mornings and evenings you will have time to explore on your own.<\/p>\n
Choose from two Globus Cuba Programs<\/b><\/p>\n
Each program starts with the group meeting in Miami with the Globus Group Leader to prepare for the people-to-people program.<\/p>\n
This program mainly focuses in Havana with excursions to Pinar del Rio and Matanzas. This tour is full of historical sites and cultural interactions with musicians, paladar (restaurant) owners, cigar makers, artists, locals, students and Old Style Car Club members.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll get to tour a tobacco farm and an organic farm in Pinar del Rio and the sugar cane fields and citrus orchards in Matanzas. \u00a0If you\u2019re a farmer, this is truly a unique experience to be one of the first farmer-to-farmer interactions in your generation.<\/p>\n This program starts in Camaguey (2 nights), then Trinidad (2 nights), and stops in Cienfuegos and the Bay of Pigs before reaching Havana. Visit King Ranch and have a barbequed lunch with the cowboys and explore the Valley of the Sugar Mills. History buffs–choose this program because\u00a0you will tour\u00a0the Bay of Pigs Museum, which is the old sugar mill that Fidel Castro used as his center of operations during his invasion in 1961. Ernest Heminingway fans will want to participate in this program because you will see the place where he lived, fished and wrote for over 30 years. The book \u201cThe Old Man & the Sea\u201d was inspired by his life in Cuba.<\/p>\n Christopher Columbus referred to Cuba as the \u201cloveliest land ever beheld by human eyes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n So what do you think? It\u2019s not the typical way to travel, but it is the only way to see Cuba. Tour dates start from July 14, 2013 and go through February 19, 2014.<\/b> Call your CruiseExperts.com agent at 1-888-804-CRUIse(2784) or visit our website at \u00a0www.CruiseExperts.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n *Group Voyagers Inc. (doing business as Globus) has been granted License No. CT-298139-1 by the Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ATTENTION CUBA TRAVELLERS: The US has eliminated cruise travel to Cuba. Any sailings booked prior to June 5, 2019 will still depart as planned, but all cruise travel to Cuba after this date has been canceled. After 50 years Cuba is allowing American travelers into their country legally\u2014but only as part of a cultural exchange … Can I travel to Cuba?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":43078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations","category-did-you-know","category-informative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"cuba](\"http:\/\/www.cruiseexperts.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cuba-old-cars.jpg\")
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