Day 1 - Monday, 3/17/2025 - Dinner
Fly to Havana, Cuba
Upon arrival in Havana at the Jose Marti International Airport and clearing customs, meet your local English speaking Cuban Tour Guide outside the baggage terminal. Your drive from the airport orients you with Cuba’s enigmatic capital city, whose nearly 500-year Old Havana is home to the largest collection of Spanish-Colonial architecture in the Americas. Make a photo stop and learn more about the Plaza de la Revolucion, the center of Cuban political life where millions of Cubans listened to speeches of Fidel Castro.  Check into your hotel and unpack for your five night stay. Dinner is included this evening.

Day 2 - Tuesday, 3/18/2025 - Breakfast - Lunch
Old Havana / Artist Visit
This morning enjoy a guided Walking Tour of pedestrian only Old Havana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. See beautiful, baroque Cathedral de la Havana, built in 1748. Next, a fascinating tour of the Havana Club Rum Museum with a local rum expert to learn about Cuban Rum and an opportunity to sample the differences. Following lunch at a local Paladar, visit the famous Museum of the Revolution. See documents, artifacts, weapons, and planes from the revolution. Head to the charming fishing village of Jaimanitas to visit the incredible Home and Workshop of world famous artist Jose Fuster, often called the “Picasso of Cuba”. Dinner is on your own this evening. Explore the fine restaurants and jazz clubs of Havana. Perhaps even take in a show at the world famous Tropicana Club.

Day 3 - Wednesday, 3/19/2025 - Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner
Cigar Factory / Performance
Begin the day with a fascinating visit and tour with a local cigar expert to the La Corona Cigar Factory. The factory rolls such brands as Hoya de Monterrey and Cuaba & Punch. Next enjoy a performance by the amazing Habana Compas Dance Group. Interact with the students and teachers to learn more about the Cuban dance culture. Next, tour the famous Nacional Hotel, once Havana’s flagship hotel that hosted celebrities and world leaders such as Winston Churchill and Frank Sinatra. Free time to explore or even sip a Mojito on the patio. Meet a former famous professional Cuban baseball player and join in a discussion regarding the history and love of this game in Cuba. Enjoy a fascinating walking tour of the Colon Cemetery founded in 1876, and noted for its elaborately sculpted memorials containing more than 500 major mausoleums and chapels. Dinner is included at a local Paladar.

Day 4 - Thursday, 3/20/2025 - Breakfast - Lunch
Vinales Valley
Travel into the scenic rural Cuban countryside to the Vinales Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This region is known for its prehistoric looking flat-top mountains or “mogotes”, tobacco plantations, caves, and rivers. Visit a traditional Tobacco Farm and Farmhouse for a tour and experience a cigar rolling demonstration. Also meet with his family while perhaps enjoying some Cuban coffee. Next enjoy lunch at the beautiful Finca Paraiso Paladar offering incredible panoramic views and an opportunity to meet the Cuban family that owns this organic farm. Stop at the Los Jasmines viewpoint for more beautiful views Return to Havana with the evening on your own to explore or simply relax.

Day 5 - Friday, 3/21/2025 - Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner
Hemingway's Farm / Car Club
Enter the world of Ernest Hemingway with a visit to Hemingway’s Farm, Finca La Vigia (meaning ‘lookout house’). View the perfectly preserved home and his famous boat on display, Pilar. Make a  photo stop at Morro Castle, built in 1589, to protect the mouth of the Havana Harbor. Next visit the San Jose Craft Market and Art Center to meet and interact with the local artists. Before dinner, meet the local Old Style Car Club owners. Enjoy a drive through the streets of Havana in a vintage car to your Farewell Dinner at a one of Havana’s top local Paladars. After dinner discuss with the owners how this private Paladar enterprise works in Cuba.

Day 6 - Saturday, 3/22/2025 - Breakfast
Fly Home
After breakfast, transfer to the airport for your return flights home.

Itinerary is subject to change. It’s very common for the daily activities and people to people interactions & visits to be interchanged and experienced on different days than this printed itinerary. All visits and experiences will be included as written in this itinerary, but could be on different days due to availability and schedules. 

AFC Vacations offers U.S. Travelers the opportunity to travel legally to Cuba under the new OFAC Regulations which were published June 5, 2019.  Our scheduled tours follow the General License category of “Support for the Cuban People” and our itineraries include activities that are intended to strengthen civil society in Cuba. Every day’s program is designed to promote independence for the Cuban people and is complete with meaningful interactions with the Cuban people. 
We operate these tours under an OFAC (the Office of Foreign Assets Control) general license, under section 31 CFR  § 515.572(a)(1) to provide travel services to U.S. travelers to Cuba.  Our tours meet all requirements listed by section 31 CFR § 515.574 for Support for the Cuban People.
We also organize tours in several of the other 11 categories of travel that are permitted, including:  § 515.565 (educational activities), § 515.566 (religious activities) and, § 515.575 (humanitarian projects).
Our immersive Cuba tours provide a rich and authentic way to learn about the lives of Cubans, while also sharing with them our perspectives on the world.  Our goal is for there to be a mutual benefit to all involved as we learn from each other.  Your participation in our Cuba tours support the Cuban entrepreneurs that provide us with private services along the way.