Please forgive us as this section is a work in progress. Excursions will be listed in detail with their price and how to book shortly. In the meantime, we are putting a small example of what we are working on here.
We are working on exciting excursions that reflect the sustainable tourism theme of the conference.
Havanatur TOUR & TRAVEL will be coordinating the excursions for the conference. They offer a wide range of optional activities such as trips , tours, a wide range of tours and hotel reservations, cars, air ticketing and other services. They offer personalized assistance and an exclusive guides and interpreters service.
Excursion One Habana – Jardín Botánico – Las Terrazas - Sora -details below
Excursion Two Zapata Peninsula, Villa Guama, Bay of Pigs - details below
Excursion Three Hemingway Historic Tour - details coming shortly
Exursion Four Old Havana UNESCO Tour - details coming shortly
This tour can be taken over 3 days, or broken in separate pieces
HABANA – LAS TERRAZAS
Day 1Habana – Jardín Botánico – Las Terrazas
Departure for a visit of the National Botanical Garden. Presentation given by Dr. Angela Leyva, Director of the Park. Tour accompanied by experts from the place of different areas of the Park. Exit towards the Sierra del Rosario, declared by the UNESCO World Biosphere reserve with more than 5000 hectares protected. Lunch in the restaurant El Romero, which enjoy an excellent vegetarian menu, located within the community Las Terrazas, a rural project of sustainable development, located within the reserve. Accommodation in Hotel Moka. Dinner in the hotel.
Day 2Las Terrazas – Soroa – Las Terrazas
Breakfast in Hotel Moka. Exit towards Villa Soroa, from where will begin a walk of approximately 12 KM along the Valley of the River Bayate, the route runs through wooded high values and natural and scenic areas, live in large numbers of endemic bird species stressing the Trogan (Cuban trogon), Ave national of Cuba, as well as a variety of plants as curujeyes and bromeliads. The tour culminates in the Cañada of hell where you visit the ruins of the old French coffee plantations San Pedro and Santa Catalina. Lunch in the peasant House. Where can visit nursery plants which will be subsequently used in the reforestation of the reserve. Return to the hotel, dinner.
Day 3Las Terrazas - Habana
Breakfast in Hotel Moka. Out for a walk of about 5 KM until the ruins of the old coffee the serafina. Visit to the baths of Rio San Juan. Lunch at the restaurant coffee Buena Vista, erected envelopes the restored ruins of a coffee plantation of the 19th century, where the drying of coffee and other facilities attached to the cultivation of aromatic grain are preserved. At the end of lunch return to Havana.
Option Two Península de Zapata - Reserve of the Biosphere Guama is unique in the Caribbean for its indigenous Architecture that includes precious woods and palm tree leaves. Guama is located on 12 small islands and has an endless system of canals and calm waters. One of these islands hosts a natural-sized sculpture-complex called the Tainos Village, depicting Tainos Indians working. Should you choose to stay in the area, the hotel Villa Guama (pictured below) has 44 Air-conditioned cottages, made from wood and fan palm, with private or shared bath and TV. (Facilities also include restaurant, bar, barbecue, Medical Services, shop, swimming pool and boat rental).
On the south side of the territory, the Great Natural Park of Montemar, located in the Ciénaga de Zapata Reserve of the Biosphere, is particularly attractive for those who prefer to enjoy the multiple specialties of nature tourism; though there are here many spaces of interest for those who rather go open sea diving or speleodiving in sunken caves.
A strategy designed for the preservation and care of its environment during almost four decades, together with scarce presence of population settlements have allowed this ecosystem to stay almost untouched. It is also considered the largest reserve of humid soil in the Caribbean, with outstanding places like the Salt Mines of Brito (ecosystem of coastal salt marshes), La Boca (the largest crocodile farm in Latin América) and the shelters of international fauna La Salina and Santo Tomás, which was classified as the most endemic area in the planet.
The Treasure Lagoon, with eight square kilometers of surface and five of depth, is probably the most well known place in the park. Boat rides are appropriate for fishing and traveling to the Guamá tourism center, habitat of two endangered species of aquatic vertebrates: Manatee and Manjuarí.
The values of this area are also enhanced by a natural pool; snorkling at the place of the fishes, a garden where you will be able to see the transition between a semi-forest and a swamp forest; as well as the Bay of Pigs Museum, which gathers details of the defense against the armed invasion carried out in Cuba by mercenary troops in April of 1961 and defeated in less than 72 hours.
