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Greet the Cuba Travel Challenge
Again this summer, courageous Americans are defying the travel ban to Cuba, which has been in effect for more than forty years. These TRAVEL BAN CHALLENGERS are united by their desire to see Cuba for themselves and are willing to risk huge fines and harassment at the border to stand up for their right to travel. This travel challenge is organized to defend our Constitutional rights of free association, free travel, and free speech. The main organizers of the travel challenge are the Venceremos Brigade, Pastors for Peace, the US/Cuba Labor Exchange, (NNOC), and the Women's Travel Challenge to Cuba. The Venceremos Brigade, the US/Cuba Labor Exchange, (NNOC), and the Women's Travel Challenge to Cuba will return from Cuba by crossing the border at the PEACE BRIDGE into BUFFALO NY
The annual communist meeting, attendance is mandatory
Points of Interest...
Pirate Adventures... Transfer to Marina Chapelín to board a Spanish galleon. Open bar, including Cuban cocktails, beer and soft drinks. Watch the pirates fight duels, walk the plank and other charades.
Nature Tours... Spectacular nautical adventure! Drive your aqua-ray through the channels and mangroves of southern Varadeo. Observe the endemic flora and fauna of the keys and visit an exclusive mini-zoo. Return to the hotel.
National Museum of Fine Arts...The Palace of Fine Arts houses the largest collection of Cuban plastic art. There is a hall dedicated to the Cuban painting and gravure from the 16th century up to now.
Havana City Tours...Meet in hotel and depart for tour of Havana. Board bus for visit to Morro fortress at the entrance to the Havana harbor, where you find one of the finest views of the city.
Trinidad Tour...Departure from the hotel to the city of Trinidad : Patrimony of humanity. Walk about the historic section of town. Visit to a museum and La Canchánchara liquor house to enjoy Trinidad music and taste the town's typical drink. Free time to enjoy colonial architecture, take pictures and visit the handicraft market. Visit to the coffee house and the factories of tobacco and rum. Visit to La casa del Alfarero (the potter's house). Transfer to Manaca Iznaga, walk about the area. Lunch at a local restaurant. On the way back, visit to the Valle de los Ingenios (Valley of the Sugar Mills) look-out point to enjoy the amazing landscape. Return to the hotel.
Cuba is pretty relaxed, even in the larger towns.
And in Cuba, the louder it gets is behind one of the huge finned American cars chugging the streets. Is the Caribbean's largest and least commercialised island and one of the world's last bastions of communism. Its relative political isolation has prevented it from being overrun by tourists, and locals are sincerely friendly to those who do venture in.
El Nicho Falls... Take a trip to beautiful water falls in Sierra de Trinidad mountains, get surrounded by the pure nature. Located on the way from Cienfeuegos to Trinidad, El Nicho an exuberant compound of waterfalls and pounds and fabulous topography At mountains of the El Nicho you can hike through the caves, water fall bathing and track the mountain's exotic flora and fauna. Those interested in another kind of wildlife can go bird-watching. El Nicho is located in Grupo Guamuhaya part of Sierra de Trinidad mountainous is the second highest point in Cuba Pico San Juan 1108 m about 46 km from Cienfuegos.
Scuba diving in Cuba is unforgettable event, for beginners and experience divers.
has excellent scuba-diving sites throughout the archipelago. They are some of the most entrancing in all the Caribbean.
Warm, clean water, great biodiversity, good conservation of it's ecosystems, coral gardens, caves, meadows of gorgonians and sponges, underwater escarpments, narrow channels, tunnels, fish of many sizes and colors, valuable remains of shipwrecked vessels and many natural beaches, cays and islets make it a place to challenge divers imagination.
In addition, this large area has a great variety of coralline formations in amazing shapes and colors, where many species of marine flora and fauna coexist in a delicate biological balance. This is what makes Cuba such a wonderful scuba-diving destination the one that thousands of tourists and professionals prefer.
Havana is one of the oldest cities founded by Europeans in the western hemisphere; the Spanish established the city in 1519. Its history spans three principal periods, each of which is clearly reflected in the urban landscape: the Spanish colonial (1519 to 1898), the American neocolonial (1898 to 1959), and the revolutionary (1960 to present). The colonial period, lasting nearly 400 years, gave Havana much of the Spanish colonial architecture that distinguishes it and led the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to designate the colonial core of the city, Old Havana, as a World Heritage Site in 1982.
Cueva de Vinales is an easy walk and takes approx. 15 - 20 min to get through. There is enough light to see where you are headed, but it is still dark inside.
These caves were very large, long, deep, dark and scary. I can't explain the feeling when you are 1km deep in the middle of a mountain, it is kind of erie. If we used up the first light and the second light dies we would have likely died with it since it would be impossible to find your way out of the caves and these particular caves were not well travelled by others ...
