One-Week Cuba Tour for Families: Havana and Vinales

The impressive city of Havana offers a labyrinth of historical lanes that can be pieced together to form a larger picture of Cuba’s history. Your private transfer will meet your family at Jose Marti International Airport upon your arrival and escort you to the comforts of your luxurious accommodation in the heart of Havana Vieja. Your family will discover the treasures of the city on a captivating Vintage Car tour that will have you cruising through the antique landscape in a famous classic car. The 1955 American car will rumble to life as you venture to different landmarks, including Revolution Square, which measures more than 775,001 square feet and stands beneath the Jose Marti Memorial.

In the morning, the Caribbean sunlight will wash over the tree-lined street of Paseo del Prado. Your guide will meet your family at your hotel after breakfast and lead you on a remarkable cultural tour of the city, beginning with the Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro. The proud guardian of the bay protected the harbor and city from pirates in the 17th century and, today offers gorgeous views of Havana and the original lamp that was used in the lighthouse. A small museum can provide you with insight into the office of Che Guevara, which has been preserved as a snapshot of his life on the island.

This morning, you will set out with your family to visit the Museo de la Revolución, which is located inside the former Presidential Palace. The opening gallery will introduce your family to the pre-Columbian people of the island with each new exhibit along the three floors offering deeper insight into the history of Cuba from the People’s Revolution to the present. You will continue to uncover a new cultural perspective of Cuba with an art class led by a local artist who will offer a fantastic view of the 16th-century castles, classic cars, and charming architectural elements of the old city. Your guide will use Havana as a muse as your family learns the fundamentals of capturing the beauty of the city with your own personal style.

This morning, as the local air fills with the aroma of the sea breeze, the Caribbean will splash against the nearly five miles of shoreline road known as the famous Malecon. Your private transfer will greet your family in your hotel’s lobby and escort you out of Havana for the enchanting scenery of Valle de Vinales. Before reaching the unique contours of the valley, you will stop at a tobacco farm, where the farmer will provide you with a better understanding of what it takes to till the land, dry the leaves, and make a traditional Cuban cigar. Your family can then walk through the drying barn to find the aroma of dried leaves reminiscent of charred wood and cherry. Upon reaching Vinales, your family will have a horseback riding excursion around the sensational limestone monoliths that surround the landscape.

Your family will set out to the remarkable scenery of Vinales with your guide for a thrilling canopy tour that will lead you along eight platforms connected by over a half of a mile of ziplines. You will then continue to Parque Nacional la Guira, which was once the estate of a wealthy landowner and politician but now covers 54,000 acres of protected wilderness among the Sierra de los Organos mountains. Your guide will lead you to one of Cuba’s most beautiful and least visited sites at the point where a river cuts through a foothill to form three adjoining caves. You can venture deep into the caves with your guide, following the sound of rushing water.

Your private transfer will meet your family at the hotel in Vinales and return you to Havana, stopping to see the stunning scenery of las Terrazas along the way. The tropical landscape and the stoic lake symbolize the grandeur of the protected vegetation within the unique bioreserve. You will be able to visit with artists as they shape ceramics or paint the grandeur of the surrounding greenery. On your return to Havana, you will visit Finca Vigia, which is the former home of American author, Ernest Hemingway. The house remains as Hemingway left it, providing visitors with a unique insight into the private and working life of the author.

In the morning, the aisles along the Almacenes San Jose Artisan’s Market will fill with vendors who want to showcase their work with vibrant colors. A number of vendors sell handmade hammocks, and others will have fantastic jewelry made from items found around the island. After breakfast, your private transfer will meet your family in the hotel lobby and escort you to the airport for your flight home, concluding your family vacation in Cuba.