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Excursion details:

American Nobel prize writer Ernest Hemingway found in Cuba a second home. Havana is full of places visited by the writer and was actually described in many of his novels. In this tour, Cuba Direct will take you along the "Cuban" period in Hemingway's life and all these places that marked his work.
The tour will start at 10:00 am with a walk along Obispo Street, the best known boulevard in Old Havana, starting in the Arms Square with a short historic description of the city from the colonial period up to the 20th century. The walk will continue with a short visit to the room in which Hemingway lived in Hotel Ambos Mundos during his first stay in Havana. This room has been kept as Hemingway saw it in the 1940s and from where he admired the beauties of Old Havana in the beginnings of the last century. The next stop in the walk along Obispo street will be the Floridita bar and restaurant inaugurated in 1817 and considered among the world's 7 best known bars. El Floridita is very well known for its Daiquiri, the drink that Hemingway used to ask for, or the Papa's, the drink he himself created, in one of his frequent visits to this bar. It is said Hemingway wrote the draft of "For whom the bells toll" in El Floridita back in the 30s. Near the Floridita bar, there will be an Old American convertible car waiting to take you to La Marina Hemingway, a tourist complex in the west of Havana dedicated to Hemingway's passion for fishing. Apart from the numerous rental apartments, bars, restaurants and discos, the Marina Hemingway has a great dock where people can anchor their yachts for short stays or even for whole seasons.
The Marina Hemingway is also famous for its international marlin fishing tournament also dedicated to the author of "Farewell to Arms".
After this visit, the car will take you right to the east side of the city, in a panoramic ride with an unforgettable view of the sea wall drive, to the Terrazas the Cojimar. Hemingway used to visit here for fishing and eating the sea food you will be able to enjoy in a lunch specially prepared for you. The writer knew of this restaurant from his friend and skipper Gregorio Fuentes, and it was here where he knew Anselmo Hernandez, the fisherman he described in The Old Man and the Sea.
Finally, the tour will end with a visit to Finca Vigia where Ernest Hemingway lived most of his stay in Cuba. This country house in the outskirts of Havana is full of stories of the times when Hemingway lived there. Everything has been kept intact, from his bedroom to the place he used to write, standing, with his old Underwood typewriter. The Pilar yacht Hemingway used to go fishing, and it is said he also used it to hunt German submarines in the Caribbean sea, can be also seen.