Cuba 2025 Checklist
Day 0 and before
- Check Gran Teatro Opened ?
- Check if the Cigar Factory is opened ?
- Find this Bar with the smoke and cigarette
- Find a Good Taxi for the airport
- Add Star Rating to the Cuba Bucket Items
- Add GPS to the Bucket Items
- Create “Related bucket Items” query and add it to the template.
- Add few historical Dates in Havana + create AI Action for dates.
DAY 1 – Jan 27th, 2025
Bienvenidos a Cuba!
- Arrival day
- Meeting with Tristan at the airport and transfert to your Guest House
- Meeting and tour presentation
- First relax photo walk to get acquainted with the city (Malecón or Downtown)
- Potential Blue hour shot near Capitolio
- Meeting Dinner in the center
DAY 2 – Jan 28th, 2025
Havana Old Town
- 5:30 a.m. Potential blue hour shots before breakfast.
- 6:00 a.m. Candid photos as the city wakes up.
- 8:30 a.m. Breakfast at the B&B.
- 9:30 a.m. Street and portrait photography in Havana Vieja.
- 10:30 a.m. Photo session with Habaneras and other street models.
- 1:00 p.m. Lunch at a charming restaurant
- 2:00 p.m. Discover iconic sites and squares
- 3:00 p.m. Visit the iconic Bodeguita del Medio
- 4:00 p.m. Posed session with models and cigar shots
- 6:00 p.m. Golden and blue hour shots in the old town.
DAY 3 – Jan 29th, 2025
Havana Centro & Surroundings
- 8:00 a.m. Morning walk along Paseo del Prado
- 9:00 a.m. Chinese Quarter and Capitolio area
- 10:00 a.m. Stroll in Havana Centro for street photography
- 1:30 p.m. Free time
- 3:00 p.m. Return to Capitolio area
- 3:30 p.m. Ride in an American car & exploration of Havana’s surroundings (2 hours)
- 6:00 p.m. Blue hour in the city center
DAY 4 – Jan 30th, 2025
Box Training
- 9am Relax Street photos in the center
- 10am Box Training (2h)
- 12:30pm lunch in a charming restaurant
- 1:30pm Free time or a break
- 3:30pm Meeting with models for a posed photo session session
- 5:30pm Blue hour Photography to capture the Capitolio
DAY 5 – Jan 31st, 2025
Havana to Viñales
- 8:30am to 10h00 Free morning for Street Photography
- 10:30am Photo session with a Ballerine Dancer or Photography of a dance rehearsal (Subject to avalability)
- 13:30pm Departure to Viñales (2h30-3h)
- 5pm Sunset from Hotel Jasmin
- 6:30pm Check-in at the Guest House
- 7:30pm Dinner
DAY 6 – Feb 1st, 2025
Viñales
- 6am Sunrise from a nice viewpoint
- 7:00am Walk ecological herbolistic walk Viñales’s field
- 9am Visit of a Tobacco farm and discovery of the proccess
- 11:30am Head to a charming restaurant in the valley
- 12:30pm Break
- 2:30pm Horse Ride in Valle Palmaritos OR visit of a new tobacco farm
- 5:30pm Sunset from Hotel Jasmin
- 7pm Dinner
DAY 7 – Feb 2nd, 2025
Viñales – Cienfuegos – Trinidad
- 8am departure from Viñales and head to Trinidad (6-7h ride)
- 12pm Lunch on the road
- 13:30pm Quick stop in Cienfuegos for a walk in its main square and boulevard.
- 3:30pm Check-in
- 4:30pm first walk in Trinidad to discover the city
- 6:00pm Golden and blue hour photos
- 7:00pm Dinner
DAY 8 – Feb 3rd, 2025
Trinidad
- 7am Morning walk before breakfast to see the city waking up.
- 8am Breakfast
- 9am Visit of the palaces of the city
- 10am Photo shooting with a musicien and Street Photography
- 12:30pm Lunch
- 13:30pm Break
- 3pm Car ride to Manaca Iznaga for some nice panoramic pictures
- 4:30pm Back in the center for more street photography with impromptu models
- 6pm Golden & Blue Hour shots and dinner
DAY 9 – Feb 4th, 2025
Trinidad
- 8:30am Departure to El Cubano Park for a morning hike and photography.
- 10am Arrival Javira Waterfall. Long exposure photography. Possibility to swim
- 11am Return by the same way and photograph the Tocororo national bird of Cuba
- 12pm Lunch followed by a Break
- 2pm Free time for independent Street photography
- 3:30pm Photoshoot with a Horse Carriage
- 4:30pm Shooting from a tour of the city
- 5:30pm Street photos with impromptu models until sunset and blue hour
- 6:45pm Dinner
