5 Hours Culture tour itinerary for Havana & Varadero: Tour The Capital City Of Cuba

Pick-up at 8 am from your Varadero hotel lobby followed by a two-hour ride to Havana. There will be a short refreshment stop on the Bacunayagua Bridge. The tour takes place in a vintage American car, a regular yellow taxi or a minivan depending on the number of passengers and their request.

To start the tour, we will pay a visit to the Morro Castle hill for a bird’s eye view of Havana. Then we will start our two-hour walking tour of Old Havana where most attractions are located: Plaza de Armas, Castillo de la Real Fuerza, the Governor’s Palace, Plaza de San Francisco, Rum Museum, Plaza Vieja, Bodeguita del Medio, Cathedral Square and it's baroque-styled church, Obispo street which is Havana’s most lively pedestrians-only street, Hotel Ambos Mundos where Ernest Hemingway wrote part of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'. We will also visit other museums, colonial residences and art galleries in Old Havana.

Next is a lunch break. Then, tour the less old part of Havana mostly by car: Hotel Nacional, Plaza de la Revolucion, the Floridita which was made famous by Ernest Hemingway in 'Islands in the Stream', Paseo del Prado, formerly Havana’s main thoroughfare, the Capitol, the Museo de la Revolucion, the Seville Hotel from Our Man in Havana. The tour ends and we leave Havana at around 4 pm and arrive at the hotel at around 6.30. On your request, we can visit other tourist attractions such as a cigar factory (10 CUC per person), the Statue of Christ, the crafts market, the Almendares River and its forest, the Miramar district etc.