HAVANA EXPLORATION March 22 to 29, 2014

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1 EXPLORATION March 22 to 29, 2014

2 Dear Pricetoia: Priceto Joureys is pleased to aouce that, by special permissio of the U.S. Departmet of the Treasury, the Office of the Alumi Associatio has bee awarded a licese reewal to offer this excitig people-to-people program with daily opportuities to coverse with Cuba people from all walks of life. The Office of the Alumi Associatio has certified that each traveler o our program will have a full-time schedule of educatioal exchage activities that will result i meaigful iteractio betwee Priceto travelers ad idividuals i Cuba. Egage with leadig itellectuals, youg uiversity studets, taleted performers at the Cotemporary Dace Compay of Cuba, ad up-ad-comig artists from acclaimed galleries. Share ideas with represetatives from various sectors of Cuba society to gai a deeper uderstadig of the trasitios the Cuba people are experiecig today. Though the focus o this Jourey will be the agig spledor of Havaa ad its potetial for resurrectio, a day trip outside of tow will show aother side of Cuba. Explore Matazas, kow as The Athes of Cuba for its may poets, ad get a sese of the moder mores ad beliefs that become wove ito the arts ad poetry of today. After offerig a umber of programs to Cuba, we are delighted to offer Pricetoias a chace to upack oce ad get to kow Havaa ad her people i this i-depth program. Our Cuba programs have bee popular i the past, so we suggest that you cotact the Priceto Joureys team at (609) right away to reserve your spot. With kid regards, Leslie Rowley Executive Maager Priceto Joureys Photo by Roxaa Gozalez. Coloial buildig i Old Havaa. Margaret Miller Assistat Vice Presidet for Alumi Affairs Priceto Uiversity

3 EXPLORATION March 22 to 29, 2014 Photos by Josef Willems (left) ad Advecap (right). Colorful coloial buildigs (left) ad street musicias (right), Old Havaa. March 22 Saturday March 23 Suday March 24 Moday March 25 Tuesday MIAMI / Meet at Miami Iteratioal Airport i the early morig for a regularly-scheduled chartered flight to Havaa. Upo arrival at the José Martí Airport, trasfer to the Hotel Parque Cetral for luch ad check-i. Later i the afteroo atted a discussio o Cuba s curret reality by a former ambassador ad deputy miister for foreig affairs. The welcome dier this eveig is at a lively local restaurat. Joi a architectural historia for a morig coversatio followed by a walkig tour of Old Havaa focusig o the four mai squares: the Plaza de Armas, Plaza de Sa Fracisco de Asís, Plaza Vieja ad Plaza de la Catedral. Coclude with luch ear the cathedral. Afteroo visits are arraged i the homes ad studios of some of Havaa s leadig artists, where there may be a opportuity to purchase paitigs ad drawigs. The eveig is at leisure. Travelers may wish to have dier at a paladar, a restaurat i a private home that operates with the special permissio of the Cuba govermet. A morig visit to Cuba s leadig art school, Istituto Superior de Arte (ISA), offers a opportuity to get to kow the work of professors ad studets, ad egage i coversatio with them. After luch, meet with studets from the Uiversity of Havaa (ad likely their visitig Priceto couterparts) for a discussio about youth culture ad setimets i today s Cuba. I the eveig, ejoy dier i a local restaurat. MATANZAS Depart by private motorcoach for Matazas, stoppig e route at the Bacuayagua Bridge, the highest i Cuba, with paoramic views of the earby valley. Upo arrival i Matazas lear about Sateria (a Afro-Cuba religious traditio) ad Cuba s part i the slave trade durig a visit to the Castle of Sa Severio. Cotiue to Varadero for luch at the historic Xaadu, the masio built i the late 1920s by the Frech America millioaire Iréée Dupot de Nemours. Drive back to Matazas to meet the makers of crafted books created at Edicioes Vigia, before a visit to the uique Pharmacy Museum. A private performace is plaed before returig to Havaa, where the eveig is at leisure.

4 March 26 Wedesday March 27 Thursday March 28 Friday March 29 Saturday Discuss Cuba agriculture with a former director for agricultural biotechology ad head of the Miistry of Agriculture s Iteratioal Relatios departmet. Afterwards, visit Vivero Alamar, a urba orgaic agriculture cooperative created i the 90s as Cuba was facig food scarcity due to the ecoomic crisis. The drive to the small hilltop village of Sa Fracisco de Paula to visit Fica La Vigía, where Erest Hemigway lived for 20 years. View the rooms of the house through ope widows; see his fishig boat, the Pilar; ad hear about Priceto coectios to the site. Coclude with a brief visit to the village of Cojímar, the settig for The Old Ma ad the Sea, before luch i a earby restaurat. I the late afteroo, atted a private cocert at the Church of Sa Fracisco de Paula, with a opportuity to chat with the performers, followed by dier. Atted a iformal morig rehearsal of the Cotemporary Dace Compay of Cuba at the Teatro Nacioal, located adjacet to the Plaza de la Revolució. Luch is at leisure. I the afteroo visit the Museo de la Revolució, which vividly describes Cuba s history from coloial times through the wiig of idepedece to the Triumph of the Revolutio. This eveig drive to the Ludwig Foudatio for the Arts for a presetatio o Cuba Art ad a chace to discuss the arts ad other aspects of cotemporary life with ivited local guests. The Foudatio Presidet will host a cocktail receptio ad buffet dier o the pethouse terrace. Walk to the Natioal Museum of Fie Arts for a curatorial tour focusig o their Cuba art collectio. The there will be time for luch at leisure ad to explore Mercado de Sa José (the crafts market) or stroll i historic Calle Obispo, Havaa s mai shoppig street. I the late afteroo, participate i a private director s tour ad receptio at the Ceramics Museum. Meet a outstadig classic guitarist after a private recital ad the cotiue to farewell dier. / MIAMI Trasfer to the airport for the morig flight to Miami. Photos by Gerry Zamboii (left) Idra Purmale (right). Ballroom i the Museum of the Revolutio (left) ad a artist workig at the Istituto Superior de Arte (right), Havaa. Please ote that this prelimiary itierary is subject to chage. Additioally, throughout the program we have ivited special guests to joi the group. Architects, museum directors ad studets, as well as performig ad visual artists will be joiig us for visits, at meals ad idividual / group discussios. You are ecouraged to actively egage these idividuals i coversatio. Iterpreters are always available o request.

5 TERMS & CONDITIONS PROGRAM RATE $4,995 per perso, double occupacy SINGLE SUPPLEMENT $495 (limited availability) Rate Icludes Roud-trip airfare via regularly scheduled chartered flights: Miami / Havaa / Miami Seve ights accommodatios, double occupacy, Parque Cetral Hotel i Havaa Buffet breakfast daily, five luches ad five diers. Bottled water, local beer, soft driks ad coffee / tea with meals. Local wie at welcome ad farewell diers Trasportatio via private motorcoach as per itierary, icludig services of biligual atioal guide Airport / hotel group trasfers Taxes, service ad porterage; gratuities to local guides ad drivers Cuba Visa fee (excludig Cuba-bor travelers), Cuba Departure tax ad limited Cuba health isurace policy (for travelers uder age 80) Cuba Departure tax Pre-departure material, icludig readig list Not Icluded i Rate Airfare betwee hometow ad Miami; hotel i Miami; alcoholic beverages other tha local beer ad wie at welcome ad farewell diers; persoal items ad expeses; trip cacellatio isurace; excess baggage ad ay other items ot specifically metioed as icluded. AIRFARE Academic Arragemets Abroad (AAA) will be pleased to assist with air travel arragemets from your home city to Miami, for a processig fee of $40 per perso. Domestic airfare will be quoted o a idividual basis ad is payable by credit card oly. Frequet flyer mileage caot be accepted i cojuctio with this program. PAYMENT A deposit of $1,500 per perso, payable by check to Academic Arragemets Abroad, of which $500 is o-refudable for admiistrative fees, is required with the reservatio applicatio. Balace due by check, 120 days prior to departure. HEALTH This is a active program ad all participats must be i good health. This program ivolves extesive walkig over ueve surfaces, climbig stairs without hadrails at locatios that are ot hadicapped accessible. Ay coditio that may require assistace or special medical attetio must be reported at the time of your reservatio. INSURANCE TRIP CANCELLATION / EMERGENCY MEDICAL EVACUATION / BAGGAGE / ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE PROTECTION IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. CANCELLATION PENALTIES ARE STRICTLY ENFORCED. As a service to its travelers, the Office of the Alumi Associatio of Priceto Uiversity automatically provides all Priceto Jourey participats with basic medical, accidet, ad evacuatio coverage uder a group travel isurace policy. A additioal limited policy, valid i Cuba oly, is exteded to all travelers age 80 ad uder as required by the Cuba govermet ad is icluded i the cost of the program. IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you supplemet this basic protectio with your ow additioal coverage, as well as trip cacellatio / iterruptio or baggage coverage. Iformatio o additioal isurace is available ad will be mailed upo receipt of your reservatio. CHANGES IN ITINERARY & COSTS The itierary is subject to chage at the discretio of AAA ad the Office of the Alumi Associatio of Priceto Uiversity (AAPU). All prices quoted are based o prevailig fuel prices, airfares ad currecy exchage rates i effect at time of brochure pritig ad are subject to chage without otice. Deviatios from the scheduled itierary are ot permitted. RESPONSIBILITY CLAUSE The participatio of AAPU is limited to educatioal sposorship of the program described i this brochure (The Program). AAA acts oly as a aget for the participat with respect to trasportatio, accommodatios ad all other services, relatig to The Program. AAA, AAPU ad/ or their agets assume o resposibility or liability for ay act, error or omissio, or for ay ijury, loss, accidet, delay or irregularity that may be occasioed by reaso of ay defect i ay aircraft, ship, trai, bus or other carrier, or through eglect or default of ay subcotractor or other third party, which may be used wholly or i part i the performace of their duty to the participats of The Program. The passage ticket issued by the carrier is the sole cotract betwee the participat ad the carrier. Nor will AAA or AAPU ad/or their agets be resposible for loss, ijury, damages or expeses to persos or property, due to illess, weather, strikes, local laws, hostilities, wars, terrorist acts, acts of ature or other such causes i coectio with The Program or aythig beyod their reasoable cotrol. AAA is ot resposible for trasportatio or other program delays ad chages, or additioal expeses or loss of time that may be icurred. I the evet it becomes ecessary or advisable for the comfort or well-beig of the participats, or for ay reaso whatsoever, to alter the itierary at ay time, without otice to the participats, such alteratios will be made without pealty to AAA or AAPU. Additioal expeses, if ay, shall be bore by the participats. Baggage ad persoal effects are the sole resposibility of the participat at all times. AAA ad AAPU reserve the right to accept or declie ay perso as a participat at ay time, or to require ay participat to withdraw from The Program at their ow expese whe such a actio is determied by AAA or AAPU to be i the best iterest of the participat s health ad safety, or the geeral welfare of the other participats. CANCELLATION POLICY AAA must strictly adhere to its cacellatio policy to offset costs icurred prior to the commecemet of The Program, which may iclude but are ot limited to: advace paymets to lad operators; commuicatio expeses; developmet ad the loss of time that might have permitted resale of reserved space. All cacellatios must be made i writig to the offices of AAA ad are subject to a $500 o-refudable admiistrative fee. All refuds are limited to amouts actually received by AAA ad are the sole resposibility of AAA; AAPU shall have o liability for refuds. At the time AAA receives writte otificatio of cacellatio, the followig cacellatio charges will apply: o refuds will be give for cacellatios received withi 60 days of departure. No refuds are give for cacellatio o or after the day of departure, or for uused portios of the tour, for ay reaso. Air cacellatio charges, if ay, will be assessed i accordace with airlie regulatios. All group fare tickets must be issued o less tha 30 days prior to departure. NOTE: Neither AAA or AAPU shall be liable for ay airlie cacellatio pealties icurred by the purchase of a o-refudable ticket. I the case of a cacellatio due to shortage of participats, AAA will attempt to otify all participats at least 45 days prior to departure. However, AAA reserves the right to cacel The Program prior to departure for ay reaso ad, i such case, reimbursemet of refudable costs of the trip by AAA shall costitute full settlemet with the participat. I the ulikely evet that a dispute arises betwee a participat ad AAA or AAPU, the followig coditios will apply: (a) the dispute will be settled by bidig arbitratio admiistered by the America Arbitratio Associatio i New York, NY; (b) the dispute will be govered by New York Law; (c) the maximum amout of recovery to which a participat shall be etitled uder ay ad all circumstaces will be the sum of all moies actually received from the participat by AAA. The participat agrees that this is a fair ad reasoable limitatio o the damages, of ay sort whatsoever, that a participat may suffer. Upo paymet of the deposit to AAA, the participat agrees to be boud by the above terms ad coditios. Copyright 2013 Arragemets Abroad, Ic. TSP licese No. CU a Califoria Seller of Travel # Cover photo: Museo de la Revolució by Alexader Boilla.

6 Curret Restrictios o Travel & America Travelers to Cuba There are substatial restrictios o travel to Cuba from the Uited States ad for all Americas citizes ad America residets. These restrictios apply regardless of where you are travelig from o your way to Cuba or where you travel to followig a visit to Cuba. The restrictios iclude persos who are citizes of other coutries as well. Oly those who are authorized by the U.S. Treasury Departmet s Office of Foreig Assets Cotrol, kow as OFAC, may legally travel from the Uited States to Cuba. There are specially licesed air carriers (CSTs) that provide charter services for authorized idividuals betwee Cuba ad the U.S. Further, air arragemets ad arragemets for travel ad stays withi Cuba ca oly be made through a licesed Travel Service Provider (TSP). Academic Arragemets Abroad is a licesed Travel Service Provider ad is authorized to make all travel arragemets to ad from Cuba, as well as travel arragemets withi Cuba for idividuals who possess the followig liceses: Please ote that this summary of OFAC travel restrictios is for iformatioal purposes oly. For the official requiremets please see: For your program, you will be travelig uder a Specific Licese. The Office of the Alumi Associatio of Priceto Uiversity has bee grated a Specific Licese for educatioal exchages ot ivolvig academic study pursuat to a degree program but which promote people-to-people cotact. Priceto Joureys participats travel uder this licese ad must have a copy of the licese i their possessio at all times while travelig to ad from Cuba. Specific Liceses: Applicatios must be submitted to OFAC for a Specific Licese, either by a idividual or istitutio. OFAC will cosider issuig a Specific Licese for the followig: Educatioal exchages ot ivolvig academic study pursuat to a degree program to promote people-to-people cotact. Educatioal: A applicat must be travelig for certai clearly defied educatioal activities, icludig: participatio i a structured educatioal program that icludes at least 10 weeks i Cuba; idepedet research for writig a Master s thesis, doctoral dissertatio or similar documet; participatio i a formal course of study or teachig at a Cuba academic istitutio or sposorig a Cuba scholar i the Uited States. Persos travelig for religious activities. Persos travelig for certai humaitaria projects. Persos travelig for free-lace jouralism. Persos travelig for professioal research or to atted a professioal meetig that do ot meet the requiremets of the relevat geeral licese. Amateur or semi-professioal athletes travelig to participate i a competitio held uder the auspices of a iteratioal sports Federatio or for participatio i certai public performaces or exhibitios. Persos travelig for the purposes related to exportatio, importatio or trasmissio of iformatio or iformatioal material. Persos visitig close relatives who are either Cuba atioal or U.S. govermet employees assiged to the U.S. Iterest Sectio. For complete iformatio, please see the OFAC website: By participatig o this program, you agree to the followig restrictios of the Specific Licese ad OFAC regulatios o travel to Cuba: - To travel to ad from Cuba with the group - To participate fully i all program activities - To abide by the terms of the U.S. Embargo After reservig your place o the program, you will be iformed of exactly what you must brig with you i order to eter Cuba ad re-eter the Uited States accordig to OFAC.

7 To reserve a place, please complete ad retur this form with your deposit of $1,500 per perso (of which $500 is o-refudable for admiistrative fees) payable to Academic Arragemets Abroad. Mail to: Priceto Joureys, Joh Maclea House, P.O. Box 291, Priceto, New Jersey , or fax (609) I/We are travelig to Cuba uder a specific OFAC People-to-People licese umber CT FIRST PARTICIPANT NAME IN FULL AS ON PASSPORT MOTHER S MAIDEN NAME HOME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP TELEPHONE (HOME) (BUSINESS) FAX PASSPORT NUMBER EXPIRATION DATE (must be valid for six moths after etry ito Cuba) CITIZENSHIP OCCUPATION M F DATE OF BIRTH GENDER PLACE OF BIRTH SECOND PARTICIPANT CUBA WITH PRINCETON JOURNEYS RESERVATION APPLICATION 1 MARCH 22 TO 29, 2014 NAME IN FULL AS ON PASSPORT MOTHER S MAIDEN NAME HOME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP TELEPHONE (HOME) (BUSINESS) FAX PASSPORT NUMBER EXPIRATION DATE (must be valid for six moths after etry ito Cuba) CITIZENSHIP OCCUPATION M F DATE OF BIRTH GENDER PLACE OF BIRTH Accommodatios Hotel Room Preferece q Double q Twi (limited availability) q Sigle (at a supplemet of $495 - limited availability) I wish to share a room with Form of Paymet q Eclosed is my check (payable to Academic Arragemets Abroad). q Credit card (for deposit oly; fial paymet must be made by check). NAME AS ON CREDIT CARD 3- OR 4-DIGIT SECURITY CODE CREDIT CARD NUMBER EXPIRATION DATE Each participat must sig below. I/We cofirm that I/we will fully participate i the licesed cultural exchage activities of this People-to-People Program. I/We cofirm that I/we have fully read ad agree to the Terms & Coditios of this program, icludig the page o Cuba Travel Restrictios. I/We agree to full paymet by check 120 days prior to departure. SIGNATURE REQUIRED DATE SIGNATURE REQUIRED DATE For more iformatio, please cotact Priceto Joureys at Telephoe Fax joureys@priceto.edu OR Academic Arragemets Abroad (a OFAC licesed Travel Service Provider) at Telephoe: or Fax: trips@arragemetsabroad.com