Exploring Cuba: Sustainable Development, Community & Art
Exploring Cuba: Sustainable Development, Community & Art is a 9-day tour combining visits and dialogues with educational, social, cultural, agricultural and environmental organizations to gain a broad understanding of modern Cuba. This delegation is a joint Global Exchange Reality Tours and Ethical Traveler program with logistics handled by Global Exchange Reality Tours.
Trip leader Jeff Greenwald is the Executive Director of Ethical Traveler, a global alliance of travelers dedicated to human rights and environmental protection. Jeff is also the author of six best-selling travel books, including Shopping for Buddhas, The Size of the World (for which he created the first international blog), and Snake Lake. His work has appeared in many print and online publications including Afar, Islands, Outside, The New York Times, Smithsonian and Salon. Jeff’s critically acclaimed one-man show, “Strange Travel Suggestions,” premiered in San Francisco in 2003. To read dispatches about his previous Cuba trip, please visit www.ethicaltraveler.org/explore/dispatches/
This is a unique opportunity for professionals related to the theme of the tour (example: educators, sociologists, social workers, anyone involved in sustainability, travel writers, journalists) to visit Cuba legally and explore the future of US-Cuban relations. Global Exchange is a licensed travel service provider by the US Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and its “Sustainable Tourism” tour to Cuba was named 50 Tours of a Lifetime in 2010 by National Geographic Traveler.
- Walking tour of UNESCO World Heritage site, Havana with a visit to the Literacy Museum, School of Art, Foundation for Nature and Humanity (Fundación Antonio Nuñez Jimenez) and projects on permaculture and environmental preservation
- Visit Vinales Valley to learn about the importance of the tobacco industry & dialogue with the local people on tourism issues in the region
- Excursion to “Las Terrazas” / Pinar del Rio Eco-Comunity and Sustainable Development site in the Sierra del Rosario Mountains – a UNESCO designated “Bio-Reserve” area.
- Roundtrip flight from Miami/Havana/Miami, three star hotel accommodations, breakfast daily, translation, transportation, and program fees
- Also includes Cuban visa as well as compulsory health insurance
- Price is based on double room accommodations; add $400 for single room
- Does NOT include airfare to/from Miami, beverages, gratuities, travel insurance, personal expenditures, etc
To register, please send in your application form and a deposit of $500. Payments by Mastercard, Visa and Discover are welcome. Deposits for Cuba delegations are non-refundable unless the trip is canceled by Global Exchange as explained below.
Please note: We must meet a minimum number of trip participants on every trip, so please register early!
To ensure that all participants can plan accordingly, the minimum number of participants must be reached within 30 days before departure, or the trip will be canceled. Registered participants can choose to receive a full refund or transfer to a future group. Once a trip is confirmed (reaches the minimum # of participants: in this case 12 partecipants) registrations may be accepted up to 1 week before departure.
This trip will be as diverse as possible in terms of race, age and life experiences. In some cases, a limited number of partial scholarships are available for low-income applicants.