LODGING AND DINING
The U.S. “Support for the Cuban people” license allows Americans to travel freely to Cuba as they wish.
Day 1: Meet in Havana
Our support vehicle will pick us up at the Airport and we’ll head to our B&B in Old Havana.
- We’ll meet this evening at our B&B in Habana Vieja (Old Havana) for a welcome reception.
- Meet with our Cuban Motorcycle Guide Luis Enrique González Saez.
- Our welcome dinner will be nearby at Chacón 162, a popular ‘bikers bar’ and restaurant.
Meals: Dinner
Overnight: Posada de Chacón or similar (B&B), Havana
Day 2: Stage 1 Habana Vieja / Greater Havana / Bay of Pigs
After breakfast, we’ll pick up our Motorcycles and get familiar with them on a Circuit around greater Havana.
- Then head east via the Escaleras de Jaruco hills and Madrugada, and along the Autopista (the freeway) and via the Zapata Peninsula to Playa Larga (“Bay of Pigs”).
- Overnight by the beach where the CIA trained Cuban-American exile army came ashore in April 1961.
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Overnight: Hostal Enrique (B&B), Playa Larga
Day 3, Stage 2: Cienfuegos / El Nicho / Trinidad
This morning you’ll be glad for the F700s as we’ll follow a dirt track along the along the Caribbean shore to reach the bay city of Cienfuegos.
- After lunch in Cienfuegos, and a brief stop to explore the city, we’ll follow a superbly scenic route as we climb into the Sierra Escambray mountains.
- Then continue along the Caribbean coast to the UNESCO World Heritage City of Trinidad.
- Trinidad is Cuba’s most authentic and perfectly preserved colonial city.
- This evening and enjoy strolling the cobbled colonial streets, plus music and dance at one of Trinidad’s many clubs.
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Overnight: Casas particulares (B&Bs), Trinidad
Day 4, Stage 3: Topes de Collantes / El Nicho / Santa Clara / Remedios
We’ll take a switchback to Topes de Collantes, high in the Sierra Escambray mountains.
- Then (riding skills permitting) follow a steep dirt track down to El Nicho waterfall for lunch.
- Then head via Manicaragua to Santa Clara, stopping to visit the Conjunto Escultórico Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara.
- The vast monument, mausoleum, and museum dominating Plaza de la Revolución–and other key sites associated with the final battle, in December 1958, that eventually toppled the brutal Batista regime.
- Then continue the short distance to Remedios, a beautifully preserved UNESCO World Heritage Site colonial city.
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner. Dinner will be a roast suckling pig feast.
Overnight: Hostal La Estancia & Casona Cueto, or similar (B&B), Remedios
Day 5, Stage 4: Sagua la Grande / Varadero OR Matanzas
Follow the Circuito Norte (North Coast Road) through the Vuelto Arriba tobacco country and beautiful coastal mountain landscapes of Villa Clara.
- Lunch beside the sea in the fishing village of Isabela de Sagua.
- Then continue to Varadero, Cuba’s premier beach resort where a sugar-white beach, and scores of hotels, spill along the full 8-mile length of the Hicacos Peninsula.
- Tonight, enjoy dinner at Salsa Suárez paladar, and take in the varied nightlife of Varadero or in Matanzas (Matanzas, closer to Havana, makes tomorrow’s long ride far more feasible.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Overnight: Casas particulares, Varadero or Matanzas
Day 6: Stage 5 Matanzas / Havana / Viñales
Head west to skirt Havana to visit Museo Ernest Hemingway (Hemingway’s former home)
- Then onto Las Terrazas, an eco-resort in the Sierra de Órganos mountains.
- Lunch here before continuing west to Viñales, a charming village in the heart of tobacco country and Cuba’s most scenic valley.
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner. Dinner at Finca Agroecologico El Paraiso.
Overnight: Casas particulares, Viñales
Day 7, Stage 6: San Luis y Martínez / Viñales
Full-day excursion offers a sinuous ride into the tobacco growing region of Vuelto Abajo.
- Visit and then lunch at a famous private tobacco farm.
- Then a scenic return through the mountains via Isabel Rubio and Pons to Viñales.
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Overnight: Casas particulares, Viñales
Day 8, Stage 7 Viñales / Havana
Follow the Circuito Norte coast road, the route through the mountains, back to Havana.
- After returning of the motorbikes,
- Transfer to your B&B in Habana Vieja.
- Tonight enjoy a final dinner close by at 5 Sentidos, one of Havana’s finest private restaurants.
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Overnight: Posada de Chacón or similar, Habana Vieja
Day 9: End of trip
Today transfer to the airport for your departure flight.
- Or, if you wish, you can stay some more days in Cuba.
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