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Mika

(17,751 posts) Wed Mar 27, 2013, 01:31 PM Mar 2013

Cuba: Backroads to offer educational exchange trips [View all]

Cuba: Backroads to offer educational exchange trips
http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-cuba-backroads-to-offer-educational-exchange-trips-20130322,0,4397192.story

Backroads, which leads guided hiking and biking tours around the globe, says guests will gain “rare access” to Cuba through the company’s recently approved People-to-People license by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Backroads received approval at the beginning of March for the educational exchange trips, which will be offered throughout this year and next. The first trip will depart May 4.

Berkeley-based Backroads has five confirmed departure dates for this May and June. It also has 10 pending departures in December and 14 pending departures in January and February of 2014.

More here ... http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-cuba-backroads-to-offer-educational-exchange-trips-20130322,0,4397192.story

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Cuba: Backroads to offer educational exchange trips [View all] Mika Mar 2013 OP

"Backroads" is a name to remember during this period before the US opens direct travel. Judi Lynn Mar 2013 #1