Arrival at "Jose Marti" International Airport in Havana.

Group welcomed by the Authentic Cuba Travel Cuban guide and driver. Transfer to your hotel Park View, located in Old Havana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Private group check-in.

Breakfast and dinner are complimentary. Morning: guided walking tour of Old Havana, UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Visit to Square of Arms, ancient military parade ground for Spanish soldiers and surrounded by impressive buildings such as:

Palacio de los Capitanes Generales was the former seat of colonial government. Today the building houses the Museum of the City.

Palacio del Segundo Cabo. The seat of the second authority of the island. Today it houses important publishing concerns.

Castillo de la Real Fuerza. The second oldest fortress built by the Spaniards in the West Indies. The castle was recently renovated and reopened in June 2008 to hold the impressive maritime museum. Well laid out exhibits chart Spain and Cuba's naval history.

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

Visit to the Cathedral Square, the most beautiful and private 18th century colonial plaza of Cuba, named after the masterpiece of Cuban baroque architecture: the Cathedral of Havana built by the Jesuit order.

Continue walking tour onto San Francisco Square, one of the oldest in the historical quarter.

Visit to Plaza Vieja, the only civic square of colonial times. Notice it doesn't have a church or government building around.

Here we will visit important institutions for visual arts.

Free time in the famous handicraft market of Old Havana where you can purchase all sorts of crafts and souvenirs by local artisans.

Return to hotel.

Evening: tonight we have a Cuban band playing for us! You'll learn to dance to Salsa, Son, Rumba, and other popular Cuban rhythms with instruction from bandleaders. Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

Afternoon: we’ll take a trip to the Eastern Beaches of Havana.

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 (optional). Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

Afternoon: Followed by coach tour of the most important sites of Modern Havana such as the Capitol building, the Grand Theatre, Central Park, Prado promenade, Sevilla Hotel, Revolution Square, Malecón seawall, Monument to the Battleship Maine, Hotel Nacional, University of Havana, Cristóbal Colón Cemetery, and the Miramar, Central Havana and Vedado neighbourhoods.

Evening: enjoy Afrojazz, Cubajazz and Sonjazz at Club La Zorra y El Cuervo, Havana’s most famous Jazz club. The club features great performances by island bands and soloists! (optional, not included) Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

Afternoon: ferry boat ride across Havana harbour to the town of Regla. This Afrocuban community has a long, rich and still active tradition of African-inspired religions.

We'll visit Regla's church dedicated to the black "Virgen de Regla" Yemayá, the African goddess of the sea in the Yoruba religion and the patron saint of sailors.

Tour of Regla's municipal museum to learn the origins of this unique community and its Afrocuban cultures.

Enjoy a private Afrocuban religious dance presentation by Regla Folkloric Group.

Return to your hotel. Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

Afternoon: visit to the community-based project Cintio Vitier in Nuevo Vedado neighbourhood. This project offers painting, papier-mache, drama, music, dance, and other skill development workshops to elementary and secondary students. We’ll meet with director Pedro Pulido for a presentation on his outreach work in the community of Colon. Exchange with students.

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. Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

Afternoon: we’ll take a trip to the Eastern Beaches of Havana.

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 (optional). Morning departure to Las Terrazas, in Sierra del Rosario where we start the morning tour of the rural town at Rancho Curujey for explanation of the area.

Enjoy the view of the village that lies above the shores of San Juan Lake and beneath the mountains.

We also visit the home/studios of local artists and artisans.

Visit to rural Primary and Secondary schools.

Visit to the ruins of a French Coffee Plantation built in 1801.

Continue to La Moka, an ecological hotel with trees growing up through the balconies and ceiling.

Later we can take a swim at San Juan River cascades and pools. Lunch by the river.

Check-in at Los Jasmines hotel with breakfast and dinner included. Exploration of Viñales 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.

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.

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

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

Transfer back to your hotel in Havana City. Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

Afternoon: guided tour of the Museum of Revolution, the former Presidential Palace. Today it exhibits the history of the Cuban Revolution through documents and objects among which we find the famous Yacht Granma that returned Fidel and his 82 guerilla fighters from Mexico to Cuba to launch the struggle for liberation from the Batista dictatorship.

Other historic artifacts include military vehicles and weaponry from the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, a U-2 spy plane shot down during the Cuban missile crisis, and items from Cuba’s nineteenth-century wars of independence.

Evening: free to explore the city on your own and spend time with your classmates and new Cuban friends. Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

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 (optional/ not included)

Evening: free to explore the city on your own and spend time with your classmates and new Cuban friends. Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

Afternoon: visit to Taller Experimental de Gráfica (Experimental Printing Workshop), a cooperative of young Cuban artists whom can be found working on their lithographs over stone matrices in the large, airy building. The variety of colors, sizes, and content of the prints is wide, including pieces with recognizable Cuban icons, bold black and white woodcuts.

Evening venue: visit to Habana Cafe. A great opportunity to practice Rueda de Casino and Sala dancing with Cubans and your tour companions to live music of Cuban best salsa bands such as Los Van Van, Paulito FG y su Elite, La Charanga Habanera, Adalberto Alvarez y su Son, NG La Banda, and many others (optional/ entrance fee not included) Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

Afternoon: visit the studios of important Cuban contemporary artists such as Alicia Leal and Juan Moreira, Britos’ Sisters, Ernesto Benitez and others young prominent artists.

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 (optional). Morning: Sports training, friendly competition or cross cultural exchange sports program in Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Field Hockey, Boxing or Volleyball.

Authentic Cuba Travel and INDER determine the best school to take your students depending on their age and level and your school sport program and goals.

Lunch on your own.

Afternoon: Free. Evening venue: farewell party dinner with Cuban students at sports school where you have been attending or other venue to be determined. Early morning departure to Havana City International Airport for departure.