We invite you to join this second running, biking, hiking and educational tour into one of the world’s most intriguing countries.

Co-sponsored by Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org), this twelve-day, eleven-night tour will focus on in-depth interaction with the Cuban people, their culture, society, lifestyles, and the struggles and successes of this Island nation.  Our unique itinerary is designed to lead us through areas of Cuba’s three mountain ranges. Beginning in Havana, we will explore Cuba from Pinar del Rio in the west to the colonial gem, Trinidad, in central Cuba, and finally spend several days in eastern Cuba, in and around Santiago de Cuba. This tour offers remarkable opportunities to experience the flavor of Cuba from many different perspectives and to discover firsthand its fabulous sights and sounds from one end of the Island to the other!

During our tour, most early mornings will be scheduled for those who wish to run trails, roads or hike in the countryside surrounding our hotels. Moderate to more challenging road biking will be built into our daily travels. This tour will accommodate people at all levels of fitness and capabilities, and riding in our tour bus will always be an option for anyone.

Our Cuban guides are experienced, bilingual tour leaders who are committed to optimizing our daily exposure to the Cuban people. Participants do not need to know Spanish.

The cost of this customized, one-of-a-kind adventure is $2060.

TOUR PACKAGE INCLUDES:

•   Round trip non-stop flights from Miami to Havana; one domestic flight

    from Santiago de Cuba to Havana

•   Double room accommodations (single rooms supplement: $250)

•   All breakfasts and dinners

•   Bicycles and coach transportation

•   Tour guides

•   Airport transfer from Havana/Santiago de Cuba

•   Lectures, presentations, preparatory reading materials

•   Cuba visa

•   Confirmation of travel license for educational travel to Cuba

    as in accordance with Global Exchange’s travel provider’s license

NOT INCLUDED:

•   Airfare between your home and Miami

•   Daily lunches

•   Beverages not included with meals

•   Tips

•   Insurance

•   All items of a purely personal nature

•   Airport departure taxes

Registration: This tour requires a minimum of twelve participants (group size is limited to fifteen, plus 3-4 Cuban guides). Deadline for registrations is January 15, 2003. Here is how you register: First, contact Peter Haney (see below) to let him know you wish to join the tour. Each participant will be required to submit a non-refundable $200 deposit to Global Exchange (all tour payments are processed through Global Exchange) by no later than January 12, 2003, PROVIDING WE HAVE THE MINIMUM OF TWELVE PARTICIPANTS BY THIS DATE.  Upon receipt of your registration and deposit, we will send you a comprehensive tour packet containing our itinerary and other important tour information. To help assure the success of this great tour, we encourage you to invite a friend to come along!

This is your opportunity to visit Cuba (legally) at a grassroots level before tourism becomes generally open and the Island culture is flooded with visitors. This trip is possible because of the educational mission of Global Exchange.  Global Exchange is a nonprofit human rights organization working for global political, economic, environmental, and social justice and is a Travel Service Provider licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department to organize educational and people to people exchanges to Cuba.

Group Co-Sponsor:

Peter Haney is a builder and teacher (www.rockymountainworkshops.com), and has been running for over twenty-eight years. He has lived and studied in Mexico and Central America and convened workshops in Argentina. He first traveled to Cuba with a Global Exchange biking group in 2001. This experience inspired him to team up with one of his brothers-in-law, Robert McAndrews, and together they organized the first Global Exchange co-sponsored  running/biking tour in Cuba in April, 2002. Robert authored a short story about this trip and we welcome you to read it by clicking on “Trail Running Adventures of AATRA Members” on this website.

For more information and registration details, please contact Peter Haney, runbikecuba@yahoo.com or 970-482-1366.