Authentic Cuba 2019

Pinar Del Rio DAY 3

AUTHENTIC CUBA 2019

After breakfast we start a full day excursion to the western part of the country, the province of Pinar del Rio, 170 km from Havana, the picturesque Viñales Valley, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. Pinar del Rio province is also called the country’s “green” part. Our way leads along the lush tobacco plantations. This excellent climate is the secret to the excellent Cuban tobacco, the raw material of the famous Cuban cigars. Today we will

learn about the making of cigars, the tobacco production and processing through to wrapping cigars. We visit the house of an authentic Cuban tobacco producer family, who lead us through the plantation, a tobacco drying barn and we can look at the process of tobacco step by step. We learn how we can recognize high- quality tobacco leafs; learn the art of wrapping cigars as one of the famous Cuban cigars is made before our eyes.

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