A different free tour in Old Havana!!! Since we are going to combine sections that are not so touristic with others that indeed are, plus a tour through the Cuban history to present time, which will provide you a perfect combination that will allow you to see and understand not only Havana and its people but Cuba and we the Cubans as a whole!!!
🚨 The meeting point will be at the small plaza named Alejandro de Humboldt (Alexander von Humboldt), located at the intersection of Oficios and Muralla streets, the street parallel and behind the Havana Club rum museum; and only one block away from Plaza Vieja 🚨
How the Cubans live in general? Why so many people lining up everywhere you go? Why do people will try constantly and almost desperatly to exchange your hard currency on the street? ¿Why so many exchange rates, two officials and another one, way different and higher at the informal market? ¿Why do the Cubans prefer the foreign currency above our own local currency, the Cuban Peso? How can the people live, or rather survive in the middle of one of the worst economic crisis in years with such low salaries and shortages of all kind? Why are there lately so many social protests in Cuba? Why are the Cubans fleeing from Cuba? In order to respond these and other questions and concerns you might have, we will be walking through a local private market; we will be also able to visit one of this so-called "Bodegas" where the locals go to buy with their ration cards; dilapidated tenement houses where different Cuban families live overcrowded. And much, way much more!!!
And of course we have added the touristic area, something that should also be included in your "Bucket List" when visiting the World Heritage Site city of Havana, declared as such by UNESCO back in 1982!
That includes, the main four Plazas built during the mid-16th century; and the streets that interconnect them all, and we will be able to interact with its wonderful colonial architecture, characters dressed as in yesteryears, streets pave in cobblestones, stained glass windows and everything so colorful and so harmoniously rebuild, always respecting its architectural patterns and original elements and facades, thanks to the amazing job conducted by the former historian of our city: Don Eusebio Leal, one of the best historians around the world.
I invite you to join me on this magic tour that will last around 2 and a half hours, and will leave you, for sure, wanting for much more.
🚨 The meeting point will be in the small plaza named Alejandro de Humboldt (Alexander von Humboldt), located at the intersection of Oficios and Muralla streets, the street parallel and behind the Havana Club rum museum; and only one block away from Plaza Vieja 🚨
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Helpful Tips: Please bring if possible, a cap or a hat or an umbrella, comfortable shoes and clothes, enough water, sun blocker and bug repellent and anything else you need to cope with this warm temperatures and high relative humidity that might eventually affect you during the walking tour.
🚨 Book now!!! There is so much fun and excitement waiting for you. Can't wait to meeting you!!!!