Jeep Safari "ADVENTURE LA GRAN PIEDRA – SANTIAGO DE CUBA¨

Jeep Safari "ADVENTURE LA GRAN PIEDRA – SANTIAGO DE CUBA¨

We offer a diverse selection for panoramic tours of the most significant sites in Cuban history, culture and contemporary life. So this is a treat for those seeking some vacation adventures on their Cuba holiday tour.

Description:

We propose to make an adventure to La Gran Piedra, huge volcanic rock, 51 meters long and 25-30 meters wide, with an estimated weight of 63,000 tons, located on top of a mountain at 1225 meters above the sea level. Natural lookout where you can see the Sierra Maestra. To ascend to the stone, the visitor is confronted with the exciting adventure of climbing, shrouded in dense fog, 452 steps, escorted by a dense vegetation of ferns, orchids and other species, which perfume the air. At the Museum "The Isabelica" you will find one of the traces left by French immigrants in this area, coffee culture and a legacy of traditions. Just a kilometer is the Bird of Paradise Botanical Garden, where exceptionally cultivated species such as bird of paradise, dahlias, magnolias and other cold climates, building microclimate prevailing in the area. You can also enjoy a delicious Creole lunch. After the visit to the Gran Piedra is made a tour through the city of Santiago de Cuba.

Finishing off the tour will have the opportunity to contemplate a panoramic view of Santiago de Cuba, only city in our country that holds the honorary title "Hero City of the Republic of Cuba", seen also described as the cradle of the Revolution, The route connects several rural communities that will make known the life of the people in the Cuban countryside and important sites of historical significance.

Planned itinerary:

• Pick up at the hotels.
• Tour guide in the client's language.
• Information meeting with the guide to explain the activities of the program.
• Transfer by Jeep to Santiago de Cuba to ascend to the Gran Piedra, arrival at the Hotel, tasting of a welcome cocktail. We will ascend through a self-guided path composed of 454 steps to the natural viewpoint "Gran Piedra". This site is one of the most beautiful natural sites in the area known as "the colossus among the clouds", which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest rock of its size in the world (1225 meters above sea level) and the third largest in the world. The visitor will be able to enjoy a landscape with a peculiar beauty, where the existing microclimate, the high degree of endemism, the varieties of ferns, orchids, mosses, the fauna that surrounds it, as well as the visual of 360 degrees that it offers make it a unique attraction in its type.
• Transfer by Jeep to "La Isabelica" Museum, the first museum founded after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on May 18, 1961 and a National Monument. In this site you will be able to elements of the original complex such as the manor house, the warehouse, the kitchen, the drying sheds, among others.
• Visit to the ruins of the old French hacienda La Siberia, currently the "Bird of Paradise" ornamental plant garden. You will be able to appreciate that most of the nurseries where the plants are located still have the original walls and stairs of the old hacienda.
• Return to the hotel by Jeep,
• Enjoy lunch at Hotel Gran Piedra, in all this area you can appreciate a microclimate and the specific flora of the place enjoying the natural landscape, the great stone located at 1234 meters above sea level has endemic species of the place.
• Panoramic tour in transit through the city of Santiago de Cuba.
• In the afternoon return to the hotels in Guardalavaca Beach.