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Preparing
For Your PhotoHavana Tour
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There can be a thousand and one things to do to prepare for a tour to another country, especially one as unknown to Americans as Cuba. – Find your passport and make sure it is valid for more than 8 weeks after your intended departure from Cuba – Check to see that there are at least TWO blank pages in your passport – Create a jpeg of your passport photo page and put in on your home computer. You may need it for your air ticket and Cuba visa – Get and bring two (2) visa/passport-style/size photos – Read the PhotoHavana website thoroughly! – Make your domestic flight reservations – Make your flight reservations for Florida to Cuba – Go online and apply for your Cuban Tourist Visa well ahead of your commercial flight (for charters this is taken care of) – Read the Preparing for Cuba chapter in your trip CD that you receive from us – Read the Havana chapter in your trip CD that you receive from us – Read anything else you can find on Cuba and Havana – Re-familiarize yourself with the camera you will be taking to Cuba. Read the manual! – Buy a secure container for your unused SD or CF cards. – Buy a secure container for your used SD or CF cards. – If you carry lots of camera batteries, buy a case for them. The Fuji X cams EAT up batteries quickly so you need at least two per day. 3 is better! – Think carefully what your flight carry-on will be. It ought to hold critical medicines, papers, and camera gear – Need a mobile phone while in Cuba? Think about buying a cheap flip-phone (loading all important numbers in it). – A smart phone might be key if it will be your main way to connect to the Internet – Make sure any mobile phone you take is "unlocked" for use outside the USA – Read all relevant photography material in the Tour CD – If you take a laptop remove any sensitive information you would not want distributed around the world! – – – more info on the way! – Make sure you will have a several week supply of any medications you will be taking while in Cuba – Have the original, labelled containers those prescriptions come in – Give a great deal of thought to what clothing you will be packing. Actually pack and weigh it well before the trip – When you know what, if any, gifts you are taking, weigh them also – If you are buying new shoes or sandals for the trip, break them in! – Pack a comfortable pillow you can leave behind? – Bring any snacks you cannot live without – Pack ear plugs & eye-shades for sleep, a bandana for perspiration – Take any leisure reading you want for Cuba unless you read Spanish language material – – – more info on the way! – Bring enough! Don't count on being able to replenish your kitty while in Cuba. – Check to see if your credit card bank(s) has set up service on the island. Call the bank twice, speaking to a different person/office to verify – |
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