Cuba Havana En Vivo Salsa Tour 2014 - Habana Vieja | Monday, March 10

After breakfast, your tour guide will accompany you in the transfer to the dance academy “ritmo cubano” for your first dancing lesson at 9 am. You will get to know your professional Cuban dancing partner. Together with qualified teacher they will introduce you into the world of Cuban music and rhythms. After the classes we leave for a guided tour through Old Havana with its historic centre: the beautiful "La Habana Vieja". We also stop for a tour at the Rum Museum of Havana Club. Lunch takes place in a typical Cuban restaurant. In the afternoon, you will visit the community project Casa del Tango. (breakfast, lunch) - Trip Notes

Woke up alone in my twin share and went to breakfast. No message from Sprachcaffe so I waited in the lobby. Yorelis turned up around 9am looking for me and Stephan, my mystery roommate. The daily routine will be bus to Sprachcaffe, dance from 930 to 1130 then some activities or free time. I boarded the bus and there was Stephan who had checked in last night and insisted on a single room! Yorelis came along on the bus. 

 

We met our dance instructors - Lady and Jaimi - and started with basic salsa steps. Not so easy and quite sweaty! (Sorry about the blurry pics - too much "heat" in the air..)

Klaus came along for a last farewell and we were treated to a show by some of the instructors.

 

 

 

Dancing finished for the day, Yorelis collected me and Stephan in a "classic" old taxi and we had a quick tour of the Cemetery and Revolution Square where I played in the car while Stephan looked around. The CEMETERY is enormous and one grave of particular interest is that of LA MILAGROSA. Click the link for details.

 

 

 

 

 

No Casa del Tango so we continued by taxi through Vedado to Old Havana where we had a tour of the Havana Club Rum Museum (with samples at the end) and then lunched at the same restaurant as the CrossOver farewell dinner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over lunch Yorelis told us about the shared taxi system run by the beaten up old cars where you can catch a ride for 1 CUC from anywhere along a set route. We walked back to the Capitolio which is a taxi hub.  Stephan decided to stay in town and I caught a shared taxi back to the hotel. A jam packed day and time to relax ahead of tomorrow's dancing..