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Santiago — 5 days (Santiago de Cuba, El Cobre, Gran Piedra, Guantanamo & Baracoa)

4.3(14 reviews)8 daysStart and end in the trailhead
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Eight days in the Oriente, over La Farola. Five days around Santiago and the Sierra Maestra without the long run east to Baracoa.

Condor Overland
Runs this trip
Walking / cultural tour
Eight days in the Oriente, over La Farola
Group Tour
Join a fixed-date departure with other travellers

Top Highlights

  • Parque CéspedesEight days in the Oriente — son and trova, a mountain road built in 1963, and a town that had no road at all until 1965.
  • Castillo del MorroSanta Ifigenia holds Martí and Fidel Castro, and the guard changes on the hour.
  • Gran PiedraThe coffee plantations up here were built by French planters fleeing Haiti after the revolution, worked by enslaved people they brought…
  • La FarolaLa Farola climbs to about six hundred metres on concrete piers driven into the cliff.

Itinerary

What's included

Included in the price

Accommodation
  • 7 nights accommodation as listed: hostel, homestay or tent, shared
Transport
  • Shared airport transfer both ways
  • All internal transport as listed: coach, train or shared jeep
  • The Toa river boat and a cacao finca
  • Transport over La Farola both ways
Meals
  • Meals listed on each day
Guide
  • Trip leader throughout, 1 guide per 15
Permits & fees
  • All entries including Gran Piedra and El Yunque with guides
  • All entry tickets and permits listed in the day-by-day
Additional services
  • Casas particulares throughout, which is where the money stays

Not included

Insurance
  • Travel insurance
Optional
  • International or domestic flights to the start point
  • Personal expenses and tips
  • Flights to Santiago, usually via Havana
Additional Services
  • 5% GST and any applicable TCS
  • Most meals
  • Upgrades from shared transport to private
  • Havana, Viñales and Trinidad, which are the other Cuba trip here
  • Hurricane season, roughly August to October
  • Reliable internet, which is limited and paid for by the hour

Most of these can be added to your booking later — the operator confirms within a day.

Where you'll stay

All accommodations are subject to change

Santiago Hostel

Hostel

Days 1, 2, 3, 7

Baracoa Hostel

Hostel

Days 4–6

What you'll eat

7 breakfasts and 5 dinners across 8 days, at camp. It opens with dinner on day 1 and closes with breakfast on day 8.

  • DinnerServed on days 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • BreakfastServed on days 2–8

12 meal services named in the itinerary. Vegetarian and vegan covered; Jain, gluten-free and allergies on notice at booking

Operator

Condor Overland
4.3 (14)

Based in La Paz

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Customer reviews

Overall rating
4.3/5
Based on 14 reviews
Review summary
Food
4.1/5
Guide
4.0/5
Itinerary
4.3/5
Transport
4.2/5
Accommodation
4.3/5
Tour operator
3.9/5
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Priya Nair – Chennai2026-06-15 · Verified booking

Everything was arranged properly — transfers, entries, all of it. Dorms were tidy and the common areas were where the group actually gelled. Crew were professional without being stiff about it. Would book with them again.

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Karan Shah – Nagpur2026-06-15 · Verified booking

Well paced over 8 days with enough free time to not feel herded. Solid operator.

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Rohit Verma – Pune2026-06-15 · Verified booking

Everything was arranged properly — transfers, entries, all of it. Would send friends their way.

Reply from Condor Overland

Thank you. We've taken the point about the transfer and are reviewing it.

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Sameer Khan – Jaipur2026-06-15 · Verified booking

Everything was arranged properly — transfers, entries, all of it. Dorms were tidy and the common areas were where the group actually gelled. The team read the group well and adjusted without making a thing of it. Worth every rupee.

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Divya Reddy – Hyderabad2026-06-15 · Verified booking

Everything was arranged properly — transfers, entries, all of it. Would send friends their way.

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Ananya Gupta – Kolkata2025-08-09 · Verified booking

Well paced over 8 days with enough free time to not feel herded. Solid operator.

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Karan Shah – Mumbai2025-08-09 · Verified booking

Good mix of the obvious things and a few places we'd never have found. Worth every rupee.

Reply from Condor Overland

Glad you enjoyed it. Hope to see you on another trip.

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Sofia Marchetti – Melbourne2025-08-09 · Verified booking

Everything was arranged properly — transfers, entries, all of it. Worth every rupee.

Reply from Condor Overland

Thank you. We've taken the point about the transfer and are reviewing it.

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