Scheduling

Departure Time: 8.30 am
Pick-up: A place of your choosing. e.g. Your accommodation
Tour days: All Week
Tour Duration: Whole day
Return: Around 5.00 pm
Children allowed: Yes
Price: €150/ 2 – 5 people. Vintage car.

Introduction

Las Terrazas and Soroa are two small "eco-communities" set in the cool, forested hills of western Cuba. Located about an hour west of Havana, these two communities are easily accessible from the city and offer up a fine place to relax for a day. The air here is fresh, the mountains are lovely, and there aren't crowds of tourists around.

Las Terrazas is considered first Cuban echo museum of both national and international reference for others developing areas with similar conditions. It also owns the Conservation Award granted by UNESCO. The settlers count on conditions that unquestionably set the grounds for an increase in their lives' quality, and constitute one of the main principles of sustainable development model.

Known for its exquisite orchid and botanical garden and its 22.5-meter (75-feet) waterfall, El Salto, Soroa has been dubbed "El Arco de Cuba" for the rainbow that sometimes hovers over the falls. The area is a good place to take a walk in the woods.

An unforgettable adventure to challenge their own limits. Tour aerial steel wires 1.6 km long, where you can enjoy the landscape of Las Terrazas Community. A highly qualified and the highest level of quality and safety equipment.

What we´ll do

We will Pick up at the accommodation at 8.30 am in a vintage car. You will have ahead around 1 hour and a half on the road.

We will visit the village in where you can take a coffee at Maria place. The social community center, The house of Polo Montanez. The Moka Alley, a kind of boulevard where you can enjoy a good coffee at Café de María, visit the Ilang, laboratory of essential oils, and Bazar el Cusco, to learn about the works of the local artists.

After this brief of the community, we will go to the San Juan river and take a lunch on its shores. Then we will visit the Orquid Garden in Soroa and the waterfall called El salto.

After that we return to Havana accommodation.

Where to eat:

• Rancho Curujey: Offers a variety of different Menus
• El Romero Restaurant: Goumet Restaurant for Cuban Ecologiacal Cusine.
• San Juan: Specializes in barnecued pork, right on the San Juan pools
• Casa del Bote: Specialized in fish and shelfish
• Buena Vista: Built on the ruins of a French Coffee Plantations
• Casa del Campesino : Specializes in Cuban Tradional Country Food
• Mercedes boarding house: Specialized in Cuban Traditional Home Cusine

Attractions in Las Terrasas: Canopy tours • Ecotourism • Hiking • Trekking • Bird watching • Horse back riding, on the lake horse-back riding • swimming in the rivers, enjoy in waterfalls and natural jacuzzis • Buena Vista Coffee Plantation • Guided tours

What I´ll provide

Round trip to Soroa and Las Terrazas in a Vintage car with me as a driver

Other important info

It is recommendable to wear closed comfortable shoes, trousers and comfortable light clothes. Do bring hat or cap, a bottle of water and sunscreen.

Location