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Day 01 Saturday January 9 Depart Toronto - Arrive Havana
Arrive in Havana early afternoon. Warm greetings and a private transfer to your hotel overlooking the Havana Harbour. Afternoon at leisure to get caught up in the excitement of the Malecón, Havana's famed seafacing promenade. Celebrate your arrival in Havana with a welcome dinner at your historic hotel.
Meals Included: Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 02 Sunday January 10 Modern Havana and Salsa
This morning, after breakfast, depart for your morning tour of Havana including the fascinating monuments and iconography of the Necropolis Cristóbal Colón, the unusual Pabellón Para la Maqueta de la Capital, the art deco Iglesia Santa Rita, Havana’s Metropolitan Park, Bocoy’s Rum Factory and the Vedado District. Stop for lunch at a local restaurant. This afternoon get your dancing shoes on for afternoon salsa lesson. Don't worry, partners are plentiful. Evening is at leisure.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 03 Monday January 11 Havana and the Revolution
This morning is at leisure. Join your host for a visit to the quirky Afro-Cuban neighbourhood of Callejon de Hamel, or relax by the pool and catch some sun. This afternoon enjoy a guided walking tour of Habana Vieja district taking in four 16th century plazas as well as the beautifully imposing Museo de la Revolución.
Evening is at leisure.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 04 Tuesday January 12 Cooking Class in Old Havana
This morning is at leisure. Explore Old Havana on your own – make a bee line for the second-hand book market off Plaza de Arms or wander through the many art galleries – all within steps of your hotel. Later this afternoon take a cooking class at the Cuban Chefs Association Restaurant before an evening free to explore the music and nightlife of Havana.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 05 Wednesday January 13 Las Terrazas
Today step out of Havana to see another side of Cuba. Travel west to the lush landscape of the Pinar del Rio Province. Visit the orchid gardens of Tomas Felipe Camacho, explore the vibrant arts ecocommunity of Las Terrazas, wander the ruins of a once thriving coffee plantation, and swim in the refreshing waters of the San Juan River. Evening at leisure.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 06 Thursday January 14 Architecture of Havana
This morning explore the rich architectural culture of Havana with an escorted tour. Your afternoon is at leisure. Take a ferry across to Regla and head to the incredible views from Colina Lenin or pick up some great souvenirs at the Feria de la Artesania, Havana's best open-air handicrafts market.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 07 Friday January 15 Havana and Hemingway
This morning is dedicated to Hemingway. Begin your exploration of Havana's most famous writer-in-residence with a visit to his home in the San Franciso de Paula. Cojimar, a quite village to the east of central Havana is the site where Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea begins. Following lunch in Cojimar, with a chance to walk these storied streets, return to Havana and Hemingway's favoured Floridita Bar for a taste of the best Daquiris in town! Your last afternoon in Havana is at leisure. Head out into the streets of this stunning city.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 08 Saturday January 16 Depart Havana
A late morning flight returns you to Canada, so rise early and steal some last minutes exploring breathtaking Habana Vieja.
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Day 01 Saturday January 9 Depart Toronto - Arrive Havana
Arrive in Havana early afternoon. Warm greetings and a private transfer to your hotel overlooking the Havana Harbour. Afternoon at leisure to get caught up in the excitement of the Malecón, Havana's famed seafacing promenade. Celebrate your arrival in Havana with a welcome dinner at your historic hotel.
Meals Included: Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 02 Sunday January 10 Modern Havana and Salsa
This morning, after breakfast, depart for your morning tour of Havana including the fascinating monuments and iconography of the Necropolis Cristóbal Colón, the unusual Pabellón Para la Maqueta de la Capital, the art deco Iglesia Santa Rita, Havana’s Metropolitan Park, Bocoy’s Rum Factory and the Vedado District. Stop for lunch at a local restaurant. This afternoon get your dancing shoes on for afternoon salsa lesson. Don't worry, partners are plentiful. Evening is at leisure.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 03 Monday January 11 Havana and the Revolution
This morning is at leisure. Join your host for a visit to the quirky Afro-Cuban neighbourhood of Callejon de Hamel, or relax by the pool and catch some sun. This afternoon enjoy a guided walking tour of Habana Vieja district taking in four 16th century plazas as well as the beautifully imposing Museo de la Revolución.
Evening is at leisure.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 04 Tuesday January 12 Cooking Class in Old Havana
This morning is at leisure. Explore Old Havana on your own – make a bee line for the second-hand book market off Plaza de Arms or wander through the many art galleries – all within steps of your hotel. Later this afternoon take a cooking class at the Cuban Chefs Association Restaurant before an evening free to explore the music and nightlife of Havana.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 05 Wednesday January 13 Las Terrazas
Today step out of Havana to see another side of Cuba. Travel west to the lush landscape of the Pinar del Rio Province. Visit the orchid gardens of Tomas Felipe Camacho, explore the vibrant arts ecocommunity of Las Terrazas, wander the ruins of a once thriving coffee plantation, and swim in the refreshing waters of the San Juan River. Evening at leisure.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 06 Thursday January 14 Architecture of Havana
This morning explore the rich architectural culture of Havana with an escorted tour. Your afternoon is at leisure. Take a ferry across to Regla and head to the incredible views from Colina Lenin or pick up some great souvenirs at the Feria de la Artesania, Havana's best open-air handicrafts market.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 07 Friday January 15 Havana and Hemingway
This morning is dedicated to Hemingway. Begin your exploration of Havana's most famous writer-in-residence with a visit to his home in the San Franciso de Paula. Cojimar, a quite village to the east of central Havana is the site where Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea begins. Following lunch in Cojimar, with a chance to walk these storied streets, return to Havana and Hemingway's favoured Floridita Bar for a taste of the best Daquiris in town! Your last afternoon in Havana is at leisure. Head out into the streets of this stunning city.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Hotel Nacional
Day 08 Saturday January 16 Depart Havana
A late morning flight returns you to Canada, so rise early and steal some last minutes exploring breathtaking Habana Vieja.
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Sea Wall, Havana
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Sea Wall, Havana
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Havana
Alfredo Jose Estrada |
Discussion:
Throughout Series
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Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas
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Discussion:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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Dancing with Cuba
Alma Guillermoprieto
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Discussion:
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 |
Havana Best Friends
Jose Latour |
Discussion:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 |
Cuba and the Night
Pico Iyer
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Discussion:
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway |
Discussion:
In Havana
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Telex From Cuba
Rachel Kushner |
Discussion:
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 |
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Tour departure:
Tour return:
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
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Reading Havana discussions take place at Nicholas Hoare, Toronto, the first Tuesday of each month from 7:00pm until 9:00pm.
If you are unable to join us - whether you're in Ottawa, Montreal, or on the other side of the world - you can still participate by joining our Readers Forum.
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Havana
Alfredo Jose Estrada |
Discussion:
Throughout Series
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Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas
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Discussion:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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Dancing with Cuba
Alma Guillermoprieto
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Discussion:
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 |
Havana Best Friends
Jose Latour |
Discussion:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 |
Cuba and the Night
Pico Iyer
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Discussion:
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway |
Discussion:
In Havana
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Telex From Cuba
Rachel Kushner |
Discussion:
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 |
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Tour departure:
Tour return:
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
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Reading Havana discussions take place at Nicholas Hoare, Toronto, the first Tuesday of each month from 7:00pm until 9:00pm.
If you are unable to join us - whether you're in Ottawa, Montreal, or on the other side of the world - you can still participate by joining our Readers Forum.
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Twin
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Single
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Deposit
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CAD $2600.00
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CAD $375.00
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**CAD $695.00
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*Twin accommodation is available to all participants.
Ask us how!
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Price may be subject to change.
Changes in Airport Tax may require pricing adjustment.
3% discount to those paying by cash or cheque.
**Deposit is non-refundable
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Inclusions in above prices:
All books, book discussions and host throughout
- Return airfare Toronto/Havana/Toronto
- Superior Class (4 to 5 Star) hotel accommodation
- Tour coordinator traveling with group at all times
- Meals as indicated on itinerary (Breakfast, Dinner daily)
Exclusions in above prices:
- Entrance and activity fees. To be paid locally.
- All departure taxes (currently 25 CUC Per Person)
- Personal items
- Meals not listed in itinerary
- Tips & Gratuities
- Early check-in & late check out of rooms (standard check-in time is 2pm and check out 10am)
- Travel Insurance
- Passport handling fees/Cuban Tourist Card
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Twin
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Single
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Deposit
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CAD $2600.00
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CAD $375.00
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**CAD $695.00
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*Twin accommodation is available to all participants.
Ask us how!
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Price may be subject to change.
Changes in Airport Tax may require pricing adjustment.
3% discount to those paying by cash or cheque.
**Deposit is non-refundable
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Inclusions in above prices:
All books, book discussions and host throughout
- Return airfare Toronto/Havana/Toronto
- Superior Class (4 to 5 Star) hotel accommodation
- Tour coordinator traveling with group at all times
- Meals as indicated on itinerary (Breakfast, Dinner daily)
Exclusions in above prices:
- Entrance and activity fees. To be paid locally.
- All departure taxes (currently 25 CUC Per Person)
- Personal items
- Meals not listed in itinerary
- Tips & Gratuities
- Early check-in & late check out of rooms (standard check-in time is 2pm and check out 10am)
- Travel Insurance
- Passport handling fees/Cuban Tourist Card
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Reading List
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Havana - Alfredo Jose Estrada
Alfredo José Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the island's five hundred year history, Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including José Martí, martyr for Cuban independence; and Ernest Hemingway, the most American of writers who became an unabashed Habanero.
Deeply personal and affecting, Havana is the accessible and complete story of the city for the history buff and armchair traveler alike.
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Telex From Cuba - Rachel Kushner
Everly Lederer and K. C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom -- three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane.
In Havana, a thousand kilometers away, a cabaret dancer and a French agitator become enmeshed in the brewing political underground. When Fidel and Raúl Castro lead a revolt from the mountains above the cane plantation, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony humming. Though their parents remain blissfully untouched by the forces of history, the children hear the whispers of what is to come.
- Simon & Schuster
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Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas
The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels. - Pengin
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Dancing with Cuba – Alma Guillermoprieto
In 1970 a young dancer left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever. In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto – arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America– resurrects a time when dancers and revolutionaries seemed to occupy the same historical stage and even a floor exercise could be a profoundly political act.
- Vintage Press
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Havana Best Friends – Jose Latour
Elena Miranda and her brother, Pablo, have lived in the same spacious Havana apartment since they were children, not knowing that a $10-million treasure in diamonds is hidden behind a tile in their bathroom. Now the son of the man who buried them there wants them, and he knows the ideal person for the job: his ruthless former comrade-in-arms during the Vietnam War.
Equipped with a Spanish-speaking “wife” and Canadian passports, the vet flies to Cuba to sweet-talk his way into Elena and Pablo’s lives and get his hands on the diamonds. But Cuba has a way of confusing even the best-laid plans, and soon the treasure hunters find themselves being hunted. - McClelland & Stewart
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Cuba and the Night - Pico Iyer
Its economy wrecked, its revolution gone sour, its isolation almost complete, Cuba lives largely on hopes and dreams. In Havana on assignment, an American news photographer, meets a young cubana named Lourdes, who may - or may not - be in search of a foreigner who can help her get out.
Viewed purely as a rich and unusually intimate description of the daily life of Havana, it could only be the work of celebrated travel writer of Pico Iyer. But it is far more. In an atmosphere of intense eroticism and frustration a love story develops, one as odd, abandoned, and ambiguous as Cuba itself.
- Vintage Press
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Reading List
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Havana - Alfredo Jose Estrada
Alfredo José Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the island's five hundred year history, Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including José Martí, martyr for Cuban independence; and Ernest Hemingway, the most American of writers who became an unabashed Habanero.
Deeply personal and affecting, Havana is the accessible and complete story of the city for the history buff and armchair traveler alike.
- Mcmillan Press |
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Telex From Cuba - Rachel Kushner
Everly Lederer and K. C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom -- three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane.
In Havana, a thousand kilometers away, a cabaret dancer and a French agitator become enmeshed in the brewing political underground. When Fidel and Raúl Castro lead a revolt from the mountains above the cane plantation, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony humming. Though their parents remain blissfully untouched by the forces of history, the children hear the whispers of what is to come.
- Simon & Schuster
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Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas
The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels. - Pengin
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Dancing with Cuba – Alma Guillermoprieto
In 1970 a young dancer left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever. In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto – arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America– resurrects a time when dancers and revolutionaries seemed to occupy the same historical stage and even a floor exercise could be a profoundly political act.
- Vintage Press
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Havana Best Friends – Jose Latour
Elena Miranda and her brother, Pablo, have lived in the same spacious Havana apartment since they were children, not knowing that a $10-million treasure in diamonds is hidden behind a tile in their bathroom. Now the son of the man who buried them there wants them, and he knows the ideal person for the job: his ruthless former comrade-in-arms during the Vietnam War.
Equipped with a Spanish-speaking “wife” and Canadian passports, the vet flies to Cuba to sweet-talk his way into Elena and Pablo’s lives and get his hands on the diamonds. But Cuba has a way of confusing even the best-laid plans, and soon the treasure hunters find themselves being hunted. - McClelland & Stewart
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Cuba and the Night - Pico Iyer
Its economy wrecked, its revolution gone sour, its isolation almost complete, Cuba lives largely on hopes and dreams. In Havana on assignment, an American news photographer, meets a young cubana named Lourdes, who may - or may not - be in search of a foreigner who can help her get out.
Viewed purely as a rich and unusually intimate description of the daily life of Havana, it could only be the work of celebrated travel writer of Pico Iyer. But it is far more. In an atmosphere of intense eroticism and frustration a love story develops, one as odd, abandoned, and ambiguous as Cuba itself.
- Vintage Press
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Going Places Together | 134 Delamere Avenue | Stratford, Ontario | Canada | N5A 4Z5 | 519-271-6037 | nancy@goingplacestogether.com
Creative Travel and Tours Inc. | 301 Fruitland Road | Unit 7 | Stoney Creek, Ontario | L8E 5M1 | 905-643-4848 | denise@carlsoncreativetravel.com
50006797
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