2010.12.15 - 11:50:06 / [email protected]. HAVANA, CUBA.- The Russian cruise ship Adriana, of the Tropicana Cruises LTD company, will soon begin a regular circumnavigation tour around Cuba under the name “Knowing Cuba from the Sea”. The director of International Sales Development of the Cubatur travel agency, Juan Carlos Escalona, said the circuit will begin on December 25 and it will be similar to the first circumnavigation around the Caribbean island in 1509 by Spanish Sebastian de Ocampo.">2010.12.15 - 11:50:06 / [email protected]. HAVANA, CUBA.- The Russian cruise ship Adriana, of the Tropicana Cruises LTD company, will soon begin a regular circumnavigation tour around Cuba under the name “Knowing Cuba from the Sea”. The director of International Sales Development of the Cubatur travel agency, Juan Carlos Escalona, said the circuit will begin on December 25 and it will be similar to the first circumnavigation around the Caribbean island in 1509 by Spanish Sebastian de Ocampo.">

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Russian Cruise Ship to Begin Circumnavigation Tour around Cuba

2010.12.15 - 11:50:06 / [email protected]. HAVANA, CUBA.- The Russian cruise ship Adriana, of the Tropicana Cruises LTD company, will soon begin a regular circumnavigation tour around Cuba under the name “Knowing Cuba from the Sea”.

The director of International Sales Development of the Cubatur travel agency, Juan Carlos Escalona, said the circuit will begin on December 25 and it will be similar to the first circumnavigation around the Caribbean island in 1509 by Spanish Sebastian de Ocampo.

Escalona referred to an increasing interest of many tour operators in this product that is already being promoted abroad and that will result in an increase of foreign visitors.

He also predicted a significant growth in the sales of excursions in the five national ports in which the cruise ship will stop. There, tourists will enjoy and learn about the local nature, history, culture, cuisine, music and traditions through visits to museums and other places and they will also carry out other activities such as diving, sight-seeing, etc.

The eight-day journey will begin in Havana and it will include stops in the Isle of Youth; in Trinidad, in the central province of Sancti Spiritus; in Ocho Rios, in Jamaica; in Santiago de Cuba; and in Cayo Saetia, in Holguin province.

The Adriana cruise ship, headed by Captain Vasily Borovsky, has a capacity for 305 passengers. It has 150 cabins as well as a restaurant, a bar, a swimming pool, a beauty parlor, a show hall, a sauna, a massage room, an internet club, a laundry and several shops.

Source: ACN

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