The Havana Cigar Tour

The Havana Cigar has been voted the world's top cigar, even in the United States where they cannot be purchased legally. Cuba Travel U.S.A. is offering a Cigar tour to Cuba that will give you the chance to visit the best fields and factories. We will even host a cigar sampling party. What is a hotter item than cigars in today's world? Come to Cuba and find out! Here is how our cigar tours works:

Day 1....Arrive in Havana and be met by our Cuba Travel U.S.A. tour guide at the Jose Marti International Airport. Check into a first class Havana hotel.

Day 2....Early morning buffet breakfast at the Old Man & the Sea Hotel and then take off for Pinar del Rio to see and all time classic San Luis and San Juan y Martinez and tour the Carojo and Criolla tobacco plantations. Here you will have time to observe the planting, drying and fermentation process.

Lunch at Vinales Valley Mural sites. This monumental mural was executed between 1959 and 1962 under the artistic direction of Leovigildo Gonzalez, a disciple of the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.

In the afternoon there will in an additional viewing of a tobacco plantation. Lodging will be provided by the Hotel Moka. Dinner and a trip to a caberet.

Day 3....this will b a day of leisure. You can go to the pool or play tennis. Hotel Moka is a luxury 26 room hotel, with bath, fridge and satellite TV. You can rent a row boat or go bass fishing. Mountain bikes and horseback riding are also available. Again we shall spen the night at the Hotel Moka.

Day 4 and 5....It is back to Havana and Old Havana. We move into the Havana Libre, which offers 579 rooms with bath, satellite TV, post office, telephone center, photo service, shops, rental cars, etc. CNN has offices on the 20th floor of the Havana Libre.

The hotel overlooks the city and the Straits of Florida. There is a 2nd-floor swimming pool, a cafeteris, bakery, cabaret, and restaurant on the 25th floor. The hotel is used primarily by foreign journalists and businessmen.

We have the following choices: Visit Old Havana a true architectural gem and a UNESCO designated world heritage site. You may also want to visit the Hemingway Museum at Finca Maquita de la Havana, the Morro-Caban hisotic site, Cojimar Harbor, the Havana University, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Natural History Museum or the Museum of the Revolution. Havana also has a nice nine-hole golf course with eighteen tees.

Day 6 and 7....You will be staying at the Hotel Melia Varadero, and be at your leisure to enjoy the diamond dusted beaches and the new 18-hole Varadero Golf Club. The hotel has 490 rooms with bath, balcony, mini-fridge and satellite TV. This luxury hotel was built in 1991 and has three glass cabin elevators that go up and down one side of a magnificent seven-story central atrium, which also features a fountain and luxuriant vegetation. This ostenentatious resort also has a fitness center and a large swimming pool. The Melia Varadero sits on a rocky headland overlooking the beach.

Day 8....After breakfast you will transfer to Havana's Jose Marti Airport for your flight back home.

Note....you will also enjoy a cigar tasting dinner party one night at the Paseo 406 Restaurant, and on another night a second cigar tasting dinner at La Bodeguita del Medio. Cigar factories to be visited will include Yagrumas Park and Cigar factory, Pargagas, H. Upman and El Laguita (because Cohibas are made there).