Scuba diving and tour in Cuba

Planet

Scuba diving: In Cuba you are always diving under guidance. Your guides are well trained, speak English, respect the ecological marine systems and will ask the same of you. The operator is a certified PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and can help you with all your questions about diving in Cuba. At Maria la Gorda and Cabo San Antonia you are diving within the National Park of Guanahacabibes, and the fragile ecosystems are even more protected. These beach places are situated in the extreme west of Cuba, are quiet remote, quiet and usually only visited by enthusiastic divers or a few beachlovers. The impact on nature is therefore very minimal. Together with the diving locations at Isla de Juventud they belong to the best diving locations of Cuba and are regarded as the 4th best places of Latin America for diving. In the National Park of Guanahacabibes you can also make guided daywalks to see and experience the flora and fauna of the park with specialised nature guides, and visit some caves where the earliest habitants from the mainland created their living on Cuba a long time ago. On booking you receive a Cuba Manual from us in which we assist the individual traveler to have a perfect enjoyable vacation, that has a minimal impact on nature and has social benefits for the local people that travelers are involved with at their journey.

People

These Cuba tours are designed & offered by ecological guides who work & live in Latin America, and have been guiding in the Caribbean for many years. They can arrange all details of your travel and design special tailor made travels for Cuba. These Cuba tours give a unique insight into the Cuban nature & culture, and with booking you support a small local operator. This company supports several families with children with clothes, medicaments, books, second hand luxury articles, purchases of their handicrafts, and donations for constructing materials and improving their housing.

On our Cuba tours all walks and treks are guided by local ecological guides and organized by local organizations. A vacation to Cuba off the beaten tracks with local guides brings income to local Cuban people and their families. The Cuban people are very aware that it is important to take care of its beautiful nature, as it is one of the main attractions for tourists, and tourism is the main income nowadays of Cuba. By making use of ecological excursions during your travel on Cuba, you support the people to continue with taking care of their natural reserves. When you visit farmers during your excursion, we ask participants, if appropriate, to donate luxury articles like ballpoints, soap and shampoo, buy some coffee and/or leave a donation. When you make use of local accommodation in the form of casas particulares, you directly support that family and make sure that the income gets ploughed back into Cuban society.

In East Cuba you can collect clothes, shoes and toiletries to donate to a Cuban organization, which supports people from the countryside with no resources. You can also leave clothes, mountain shoes, toiletries or other articles with your local guides after the excursion.

This operator empowers a womens coffee cooperation Madre Solar and NGO in the Andes of Venezuela. Their vision is to provide solidarity to the entire coffee community in the area, striving to improve the quality of the life of children and families of the coffee communities. With this vacation and all our tailor made travels in Latin America you support local families on your destination of travel and you make it for us possible to support mothers and children in the Andes of Venezuela through this cooperation and NGO. Through their different programs the cooperative aspire to offer training technique in administration, management, accounting, among others and offer scholarships to students and subsidies to primary schools in rural coffee communities, as well as inspire to new forms of community economic organization.