Arrival at "Jose Marti" International Airport in Havana City.

You are welcomed by your Authentic Cuba Travel tour guide.

Transfer to National Hotel, located at Vedado Neighbourhood, the cultural center of Havana City.

Private group check-in.

Breakfast is complimentary from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Morning: visit to International Lawyers and Consultants (CONABI), a Cuban business law firm created in 2006 by the strategic merger of a number of Cuban legal entities that boasts a highly committed and experienced group of lawyers. The Havana-based team assists international clients and Cuba-based joint ventures with a range of services, including mainstream corporate work, labour, litigation and shipping finance.

Lunch in La Mina restaurant where you can enjoy traditional Cuban dishes and music live!

Afternoon: guided walking tour of Old Havana, UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Old Havana is a 528 acre area that contains approximately 4000 buildings in a variety of styles including Spanish Baroque, Neocolonial, Beaux Arts, and Moorish. Since the 1990s, development efforts in Havana include extensive historic preservation, architectural renewal, and modernization of infrastructure.

Free time in the famous handicraft market of Old Havana, located inside the Almacenes de Depósito San José, an old warehouse on the harbourside where you can purchase all sorts of crafts and souvenirs by local artisans.

Return to hotel.

Evening: visit to Tropicana, spectacular cabarets to open sky. A unique place in the world to enjoy the music and the Cuban and Caribbean folklore in all their color, musicality and rhythm. An art extravaganza to multiply the Cuban happiness of a true tropical night.

Morning: meeting with the president and representatives of the Commission for Constitutional, Administrative and Legal Matters of the National Assembly of People's Power (Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular, ANPP). The ANPP has 609 members elected from single-member electoral districts for five-year terms. Each is accountable and can be recalled at any time.

The theme of the encounter is threefold: Cuba's Government System, Analysis of Cuba's Constitution, and Cuba's Electoral System. The format is a presentation and discussion.

Lunch on your own (not included in costs).

Afternoon: free.

Evening venue: visit to Habana Cafe. A great opportunity to Salsa dancing with Cubans and your tour companions to live music of Cuban best salsa bands such as Los Van Van, Paulito FG, La Charanga Habanera, Adalberto Alvarez, and many others (entrance fee not included). Morning: meeting with members of the Cuban National Society of Social Sciences and representatives of the Cuban National Union of Lawyers (UNJC). The UNJC holds special consultative status on the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a body facilitating international cooperation on standards making and problem solving in economic and social issues. Introduction to Cuba's Penal and Justice System.

Lunch at El Aljibe restaurant.

Afternoon: visit to Partagas Cigar Factory, founded in 1845 by Spaniard Don Jaime Partagas.

Don Jaime owned many of the best plantations in the Vuelta Abajo tobacco-growing region of Cuba and being able to choose from among the finest tobaccos on the island made the brand Partagas incredibly successful.

Don Jaime is also believed to have experimented with various methods of fermenting and aging tobacco and is legendarily credited with hiring the first lector to read to and entertain the cigar rollers as they worked. Before and after the Revolution, the Cuban-produced Partagás has been one of the most revered and highest-selling brands of cigars in the world.

Followed by panoramic air conditioned coach tour of the most important historical sites in the Modern Havana neighbourhoods of Vedado and Miramar including the Revolution Square, University of Havana, Habana Libre Hotel, Coppelia Ice Cream Park, Plaza José Martí (in front of U.S. Interests Section), Monument to the Battleship Maine, Malecón seawall, Prado promenade, Central Park, The Great Theatre and the Capitol building.

Evening: attend one of the most traditional and popular ceremonies in Cuba, the Fire of the Cannon of 9 O'Clock at the Fortress of San Carlos de La Cabana. Followed by visit to Casa del Habano “La Triada”. Morning: visit to Bufete de Servicios Especializados, providing services for foreign clients and joint ventures seeking advice on mainstream commercial work. The Havana-based team is noted for its academic background, availability and client service in general commercial matters, with an emphasis on foreign investment and litigation. Armanda Nuris Piñero Sierra is the firm's leading light. She continues to represent the families of the Miami Five, the Cuban citizens imprisoned in the USA under alleged charges of espionage.

Lunch on your own (not included).

Afternoon: visit to Berger, Young & Associates Ltd.,an international legal consulting firm that provides investment, finance, corporate structuring and other transaction services in respect of foreign investments in Cuba since 1998. Its founding partners are Sebastiaan A.C. Berger and Cameron Young. Berger Young was formed by two partners, Berger and Young, in order to provide independent, legal and investment advisory services to foreign investors in Cuba.

Sebastiaan and Cameron are both lawyers, trained in important international law firms and both have lived and worked in Cuba for over 10 years. They met in Havana in 1998 and decided that the opportunities of the Cuban market place were likely to expand significantly in the years to come and that their strategy of balancing on-the-ground expertise with international transaction standards put them in a unique position to advise foreign investors on the potential benefits, but also the potential risks, of this fascinating business environment and country.

Evening venue: this educational and cultural tour coincides with the world acclaimed International Jazz Festival of Havana Jazz Plaza 2013 that runs from December 19 to December 22. The National Hotel of Cuba is located amid the main venues of the event. Do not miss out this great opportunity! Your Authentic Cuba tour guide will keep you posted on the evening program. (Optional/ Not included) Morning: visit to Bufetes Colectivos, collective law offices, first established by the Ministry of Justice after the private practice of law was abolished, and currently under the oversight of the National Organization of Bufetes Colectivos (ONBC).

In order to practice in a bufete, one must graduate from law school in Cuba or a foreign country with Cuban validation. Exceptions to this can be made under extraordinary circumstances. Once in a bufete, lawyers may practice anywhere in the country. Currently, approximately 2,000 lawyers practice in some 250 bufetes throughout Cuba, collectively handling some 200,000 cases per year.

Lunch hosted by Jose Fuster, one of the most important Cuban ceramists and painters today.

Afternoon: visit to Lex S.A. Servicos Juridicos. Operating out of its Havana headquarters, the team regularly acts for international and domestic clients seeking counsel on registration and protection of trademarks, patents and related litigation. The group's growing case load also involves anti-counterfeiting, web domain registration and copyright issues.

Late afternoon: cocktail party at Club Habana. Opportunity to exchange with some of our Cuban counterparts in a relaxed atmosphere.

Evening: attend baseball game at Latinoamericano Stadium, popularly known in Cuba as "The Colossus of Cerro” is home of Ciudad Habana Industriales. The stadium holds 55,000 people. In 1999, it hosted an exhibition series between Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles. Today we will explore Cuba's famous Vinales Valley, containing the most spectacular scenery in Cuba and some of the most interesting and varied geological formations on the island. The valley is particularly famous for its great freestanding rock formations called mogotes.

Meet with local farmers that have been passing from generation to generation the secrets of growing the best tobacco in the world.

Visit to Mural de la Prehistoria, a huge painting on the side of a Mogote.

Explore Viñales town at your leisure: its open-air craft market, Parque Marti, town church, and other interesting sites of this charming colonial hamlet.

Lunch at Cueva del Indio restaurant.

After lunch we will visit the Cueva del Indio, used by the Guanahatabey Amerindians as a burial site in ancient time, and as refuge from the Spaniards for both Indians and Black slaves alike. We’ll take a short boat ride on the subterranean river running through the cave.

Visit Carmen and Caridad Miranda’s botanical garden, called the Viñales Botanical Garden. The two widows maintain a garden full of fruits, orchids and medicinal plants.

Farewell dinner at La Cocina de Liliam where ex- president James Carter dinned in his last visit to Cuba.

Evening venue: remember, this educational and cultural tour coincides with the world acclaimed International Jazz Festival of Havana Jazz Plaza 2013 that runs from December 19 to December 22. The National Hotel of Cuba is located amid the main venues of the event. Do not miss out this great opportunity! Your Authentic Cuba tour guide will keep you posted on the evening program. (Optional/ Not included) Early morning departure to Havana City International Airport for departure.