The Safari in Search of Ernest Hemingway
July 1  to July  11, 2008
Havana, Cuba - Pamplona, Spain

Please join us for this “once in a lifetime” exciting and historic international celebration of “everything Hemingway.” And, follow in Ernest’s footsteps to include Last Frontier Expeditions. " Fish The Legendary  Hemingway International Marlin Fishing Tournament & Run With The Bulls."
Program

July 1 Depart Cancun, Mexico at 7:40 PM via Aerocaribe (Mexicana Airlines. (45 minute flight). Protocol services upon arrival at the airport in Havana, Cuba. Check into the classic, five star, Hotel Nacional De Cuba. Welcome buffet, cocktail and cigar reception.

July 2 Breakfast.  Private tour of the Partagas cigar factory followed by a reception in our clubs Partagas Salon with Partagas President, Sr. Abel Diaz. Lobster lunch at Hemingway’s favorite “haunt,” the Restaurante El Floridita (where the Daiquiri was invented). Afternoon Hemingway tour with a reception at the Hotel Ambros Mundos. (Hemingway’s room is preserved from the time when he lived there writing “For Whom the Bell Tolls”). Dinner at Havana’s most popular Restaurante El Aljibe. Evening open. 

July 3 Breakfast. Visit to Hemingway’s home and museum (La Finca Vigia). Dinner at another Hemingway favorite, Restaurante La Bodeguita del Medio (where the Mojito drink was invented).             

July 4 Breakfast. Day open for individual tours and/or relaxation. Dinner in the elegant, romantic, garden court of Mansion La Ferminia. (Guest speaker will be a Cuban Hemingway expert.)           

July 5 Breakfast. Day open for individual activities. Dinner in the private Club Jardine and the legendary Tropicana Night Club Review. Depart for Madrid, Spain.        

July 6 Arrive Madrid, Spain at 3:30 PM. Depart for Pamplona, Spain (1 hour). Check into Hemingway’s favorite Hotel Maisonave. Welcome reception and dinner a t the hotel.

July 7 Breakfast. Opening ceremony for the “Running of the Bulls” begins. Optional Hemingway tours and activities with guides. Dinner to be announced.

July 8 Breakfast. “Running of the Bulls” and other Hemingway activities or individual tours. Dinner.

July 9 Breakfast. Open schedule for individual tours.

July 10 Breakfast. Depart Pamplona for Madrid and Havana. Arrive in Havana. Group dinner in Havana.

July 11 Breakfast. Depart Havana for Cancun.

Please contact us for more details. This is a very limited offering and reservations will be on a “first come, first served” basis.