• Submitted by: manso
• Travel and Tourism
• 07 / 11 / 2011

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Always wanted to visit Cuba? Well now you can — legally. Thanks to policy changes by President Barack Obama earlier this year designed...

By michelle Higgins. New York Times

Cuba trips

Here are some of the planned people-to-people trips to Cuba.

— Harvard University Alumni Association will take a group of 35 to Havana for five days in late October, led by Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez, the Cuban Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, to explore the city and meet professionals, including local artists and enjoy a private concert at the Ceramics Museum with guitarist Luis Manuel Molina. Cost: $3,880 a person based on double occupancy, including airfare from Miami. www.alumni.harvard.edu

— Insight Cuba is offering several trips that include a weekend in Havana that costs $1,795 and visits an orphanage; Callejon de Hammel, a community project promoting art, music and culture; the Instituto de Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (Cuban Institute of Friendship With the People), an international Cuban organization that promotes cultural relations between the U.S. and Cuba; and an eight-night Cuban Music and Art Experience ($4,095), where visitors meet the staff at Egrem, the Cuban state record company, participate in a percussion and dance workshop, visit local music schools and talk to musicians during rehearsal at a famous Havana jazz club. www.insightcuba.org

— Learning in Retirement is offering a 10-day trip in April 2012 visiting a range of professionals from Santiago de Cuba to Trinidad including a violin maker and a dairy farm operator. Cost: $4,300 for members who pay a $35 annual fee.

www.uwlax.edu/conted/lir/index.html — Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design plans to offer an eight-day trip in November, pending a license. The trip, led by Mario Ascencio, the museum's library director, will explore the art scenes of Havana and Trinidad, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Guests will attend a cocktail reception at the Ludwig Foundation, which promotes Cuban contemporary artists, and meet local curators, artists and gallery owners. Cost: $3,700 a person, including round-trip airfare from Miami for guests who pay $60 for a museum membership. www.corcoran.org. ummer Guide home page

Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2015546715