Enjoying the Hershey train ride

The town of Hershey once supplied the US chocolate giant with sugar for its bars – and Easter eggs – and the railway line built for it is an original way to get around an area, Havana beaches and beauty

In 1917, chocolate pioneer Milton Hershey came to Cuba for sugar to supply his US chocolate company, and opened a factory. He bought several sugar mills, established a town of 180 homes on this spot 40 miles east of Havana, and built a golf course, a sports field and an electric railway that ran from the Bay of Havana at Casablanca to the port of Matanzas 52 miles to the east. His Cuban sugar supplied his chocolate empire, sent molasses to the rum factory up the road, and sold sugar to Coca-Cola

The train’s speed is 40 mph max, so it was a leisurely crunch, rocking through farmland, bushland, sugar cane, sugar mill smokestacks, and rural homes.

Visit this “ghost” town with its peculiar landscapes, its old Sugar Mill and the Hershey Gardens on foot.

Full Itinerary

Pick up in your Hotel

Arrival in town and reception by a musical group with dancers and a refreshing natural juice

Next in our tour, we will board an original wagon of the time and we will travel a section of this historical route enjoying a unique Cuban party with an open bar, music and dancers.

Back in town we will walk through its streets and stop in front of a typical house in the workers’ housing area.

Its owner will make us a delicious guarapo (sugar cane juice) in a mill as a reminder of the golden age of sugar in Cuba.

Then we will go to the old upper-class residential area where the directors and managers of the mill and the company lived in Cuba. There at Milton Hershey’s visiting house, we will have a typical Cuban lunch

Later return to Havana stopping at the same pick up points

Included:

Tour Guide in full command of English and/or other foreign language
All the tours as indicated with the Entrances pointed out in the Program, with explanation of Specialist when mention.
Bus transportation
Lunch as indicated.
24 hours phone emergency num
Staff assistance during the whole staying for the implementation of the Program
Local Taxes

Not included: