Guamá Vapor and Sugar" Private Tour
We offer a wide selection of tours for you to enjoy the most relevant features of the largest city in the Caribbean. Our agency proposes panoramic visits through the most important sites of history, culture and life in Cuba today.
Guamá is located in the Zapata Swamp, a place that constitutes one of the largest wetlands in Latin America and a protected area for the management and conservation of flora and fauna species native to Cuba, many of them in danger of extinction.
Planned itinerary
- Hotel pick-up.
- Transit tour that shows the Monument to the Crab (symbol of the city of Cardenas), the cemetery (of great patrimonial value from the artistic point of view).
- Visit to a sugar mill where the specialized guide will explain the whole process of obtaining sugar.
- Tour of an exhibition of steam locomotives from the beginning of the 20th century, with time for photos and tasting of guarapo, a drink made from sugar cane.
- Tour by train, pulled by a steam locomotive through the Cuban countryside, where you will see guava, mango and avocado trees and farmers' houses.
- Transfer to the Ciénaga de Zapata National Natural Park, the most valuable natural reservoir in the province of Matanzas due to its current state of conservation, with views of orange, pump fruit, mango, guava, sweet potato and sugar cane plantations.
- Visit to the Fiesta Campesina farm where there are animals such as owls, pigeons, roosters, curieles, iguanas, geese, manjuaríes and jicoteas.
- Typical Cuban lunch in a country ranchón, animated by local musicians.
- Visit to the largest crocodile farm in Cuba.
- Boat ride on the Laguna del Tesoro, a large natural freshwater reservoir, one of the largest in the country where you can observe mangroves, water lilies, termite nests, migratory and endemic birds.
- Visit to Guamá: replica of a Taino village with life-size statues recreating aborigines performing daily activities, designed by Cuban artist Rita Longa.
- Free time to observe different species of birds, ceibas and yagrumas.
- Visit to a museum.
- Return to the hotels.