Havana - Soroa - La Guira National Park - Ciénaga
de Zapata Nacional Park (Playa Larga) Havana (8
days | 7 nights)
Day
1:
Arrival
at José Martí Internacional
Airport, Havana. Transfer to your hotel
. Check-in. Dinner. Evening free.
Day
2:
Breakfast.
Transfer to Soroa. Bird watching session
in the Sierra del Rosario Biosphere Reserve.
Return to the hotel. Lunch. Visit to the
orchid collection and waterfall. Second
bird watching session. Here exist many beautiful
birds such as the Cuban trogon the national
bird) (Priotelus temnurus), Cuban green
woodpecker (Xiphidiopicus percussus) Cuban
tody (Todus multicolor), Red-egged thrush
(Mimocichla plumbea schistacea), and the
Cuban solitaire Myadestes Elisabeth Elisabeth)
thrush among others.
Dinner. Evening free.
Day
3:
Early
breakfast. Departure to la Guira national
Park. Bird watching session accompanied
by a packed lunch. Return to the hotel.
Country style farewell dinner.
Day
4:
Early
breakfast. Departure to Playa larga in the
Ciénaga de Zapata National Park (Biosphere
Reserve) on the Zapata peninsula. Stop enroute
at the national Botanical Garden for a guided
bird watching tour. Visit the Japanese Garden
and have lunch at the Ecorestaurante. Transfer
and check-in at Hotel Playa Larga.
Afternoon bird watching session with two
options. First: Bermejas area, full of woods
and palm trees, a nesting area for different
species of woodpeckers. Second: An area
of small lakes, ideal habitat for different
species of pigeons. Return to the hotel.
Dinner. Evening free.
Day
5:
Early
breakfast. Visit to La Salina nature Reserve,
an area frequented by different species
of water fowl that inhabit the mangrove
swamps, coastal lagoons and woods found
here. La Salina is home to 165 migrant and
endemic species, including flocks of flamingos,
the Cuban parakeet (Aratinga euops) and
Sandhill cranes (Grus Canadensis nesiotes).
Box lunch. Return to the hotel. Dinner.
Night bird watching session with the possibility
of signting the uban Pygmy Owl (glaucidium
siju siju). Return to the hotel.
Day
6:
Early
breakfast. Visit to santo Tomás wild
life refuge, known habitat of three very
rare species of birds: the "Ferminia"
( Ferminia cerverai), endemic to this area,
the "Cabrerito de la Ciénaga"
(Torrearnis inexpectata), and…wouldn't
it be something to add your name to the
short list of people who have been privileged
to see or hear the famous "Gallinuela
de Santo Tomás" (Cyanolimnas
cerverai)! You are also very likely to spot
the Bee Hummingbird or "Zunzuncito",
the world's smallest bird. Box lunch. Return
to the hotel. Dinner. Evening free.
Day
7:
Breakfast.
Transfer to Havana. Tour of the historic
center of the city, World Heritage Site.
Return to the hotel. Dinner. Evening free.
Day
8:
Breakfast.
Transfer to José Martí International
Airport and return to country of origin.
NOTES
· Hotels within this program unless otherwise stated in the program: Havana City: Vedado, Saint Jonh's Viñales: La Ermita, Los Jazmines o Rancho San Vicente Trinidad: Las Cuevas o Costa Sur Santiago de Cuba: San Juan o Las Américas Varadero: Herradura o Mar del Sur
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