After the successful trip to Cuba in March 2004, we offer again a trip in 2005. Dates are not fixed yet, but probably some time in March. The trip is set-up with excellent local guides, comfortable hotels, good food and leisure time for swimming and snorkeling as well as the main cultural sites in Trinidad and Havanna included.
Day 1:
Arrival to Havana airport. Be met at airport by English-speaking guide. Transfer in air-conditioned bus and drive to La Soroa and stay in hotel Villa Soroa to be able to bird in the morning here. Dinner in Soroa Hotel.
Day 2:
Pre dawn birding. Breakfast in hotel
Depart for La Guira National Park in Pinar del Rio Province.
Bridwatching session
Check in and lunch to Mirador hotel in San Diego de los Baños. Afternoon birding (Chances at Cuban Solitarite, Olive-capped Warbier). Dinner in hotel.
Day 3:
Breakfast in the hotel.
Morning birdwatching session in the La Guira National Park area.
Lunch at hotel Mirador.
Better to drive straight to Playa Larga
Night and dinner in Playa Larga hotel.
Day 4:
Breakfast in hotel
Birding Zapata peninsula.
Lunch in Hotel
Birdwatching session in the area of Las Bermejas
Dinner in Hotel
Day 5:
Breakfast in hotel
Birding session at Las Salinas
Lunch in hotel
Afternoon birdwatching session
Dinner in hotel
Day 6:
Brekfast in hotel
Birding in the los Arroyones area of the Zapata swamp.
Lunch in hotel
Afternoon birdwatching session
Dinner in hotel
Day 7:
Breakfast in hotel
Birding session in the santo Tomas area
Lunch in the hotel
Afternoon birdwatching session
Dinner in the hotel
Day 8:
Breakfast in hotel
Birding in Zapata area according to the interest of the group.
(In Zapata chances at: Cuban Parrot, Cuban Parakeet, Cuban Screech-owl, Zapata Wren, Zapara Rail, Spotted Rail, Yellow-breasted Crake, Stygian Owl, Bee Hummingdirb, Gundlach´s Hawk, Grey-headed Quail-Dove, Key West Quail-Dove, Blue-headed Quail-Dove, Greater Antillean Nightjar, Red-shouldered Blackbird, Fernandina´s Flicker, Cuban Crow, Masked Duck, Snail Kite)
Lunch in hotel. Check-out and transfer to Trinidad.
Check-in and dinner in Trinidad.
Day 9:
Breakfast in hotel
Depart for La Belen National Park
Half day´s birding in the Park
Lunch in Camaguey
Afternoon birdwatching session. Return for dinner in hotel
(Chances at: Cuban Palm Crow, Giant Kingbird, Cuban Grassquit, Cuban Parakeet, Palin Pigeon, West Indian Whistling Duck)
Day 10:
Breakfast in hotel
Birding in the area of Najassa in the morning
Boxed picnic lunch
Drive to Cayo Coco. Return for dinner in the hotel
Day 11:
Breakfast in hotel
AM Birding in Cayo Coco
Lunch in hotel.
Afternoon birding session on Cayo Coco.
Day 12:
Breakfast in hotel
Briding in Cayo Coco and Cayo Paredon Grande
Retur to hote for Lunch
Afternoon birdwatching session.
Return to the hotel in the evening for dinner
(Chances at: Cuban Gnatcatcher, Thick-billed Vireo, Cuban Vireo, Bahama Mockingbird, Zapata Sparrow, Oriente Warbler, West Indian Whistling Duck, Mongrove Cuckoo)
Day 13:
Day at leisure. If there are still birds to be seen we will do some Birdwatching excursions in the morning.
Day 14:
Breakfast in hotel
Depart for Havana City
lunch en route
Check-in in hotel in old Havana
Day 15:
Brekfast in hotel. Chech-out
Tour of the old city.
Late lunch in Aljibe restaurant.
Transfer for evening flight