>From Marcel Hatch <marcel_at_cubaeducationtours.ca>
Official Cuba Tour for Librarians
Cuban librarians and educators warmly invite you to join an official one-time
tour to the island. It's a special program organized by Cuba Education Tours,
established in the year 2000.
The program is called, "Cuba Now Learning and Research Tour."
It takes place this spring from May 22 to 29.
The website is http://CubaFriends.com
The site details a fabulous itinerary, costs and information on legal Cuba travel.
The program is for North American librarians who missed our February 2010
Librarians, Writers and Bibliophiles Havana Book Fair Tour.
The May 2010 tour is licensable for US citizens and residents. Costs are low to
ensure working librarians, educators, writers and historians can attend. The
purpose of the tour is for North Americans to get a sense of island
librarianship, its education system, culture and history. An objective of the
trip is that participants will return home and report their findings to their
colleagues and friends.
You'll visit four important cities in western Cuba: Havana, Trinidad de Cuba,
Cienfuegos, and Santa Clara.
You'll stay in the famed Hotel Nacional while in Havana, and at the Resort Costa
Sur in Trinidad de Cuba -- on the warm white sand shore of the Caribbean Sea.
Tour highlights include:
* Special neighborhood block party hosted by Habaneros for tour participants.
* Tour the Museum of Literacy dedicated to the young women and men who conquered
illiteracy in 1961.
* Private visit to the Latin American School of Medicine where international
students learn to become doctors.
* Visit the Josˆ© Martˆ‚ National Library and meeting with its director.
* Tour the Casa de las Amˆ©ricas, a renowned Latin American institution for
literature and art.
* Meeting with students and teachers at the Casa del Niˆ±o y la Niˆ±a school.
* Confab with representatives of the Cuban Teachers Union on gains in island
education.
* Explore on foot Old Havana and a scale model of this district of this UNESCO
World Heritage Site.
* Meet and dine with famed painter and ceramist Josˆ© Fuster at his whimsical
home studio.
* Climb to the top of the Escambray Mountains in Soviet Army trucks.
* Private panoramic motor coach tour of Modern Havana.
* Explore the Afrocuban inspired Callejˆ„n de Hamel in Central Havana.
* Visit Che Guevara's memorial, museum and mausoleum in Santa Clara.
* Enjoy evening hot spots for the best Afrocuban music and Latin jazz, salsa and
dance.
* Walking tours of the central plazas and key historic sites of the cities of
Trinidad de Cuba and Cienfuegos.
* Dance lessons taught by Cuban professionals with live music.
* Attend a regal cannon firing ceremony dating from 1519, and much more!
We're here to help you witness Cuba. Call or email us. Please consider sharing
this letter with your friends keen on visiting Cuba.
Warm regards,
Marcel Hatch, Education Director
Cuba Education Tours
2278 East 24th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5N 2V2
1-877-687-3817 Canada and US
+ 604-874-9048 International
B.C. Travelers Assurance Fund Registration No. 34338
Providing educational, cultural and ethical travel to Cuba since 2000
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Note: There are one thousand Cuban doctors helping in Haiti now. Money foreign
visitors spend on Cuba tours, hotels transportation, and other public services,
goes directly into the Cuban health care and education system. Cuba guests can
feel good knowing their tourist dollars help support over 20,000 Cuban doctors
volunteering medical services in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. See
http://CubaFriends.com/details/travel_haiti.php
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Received on Tue Feb 16 2010 - 03:01:07 EST