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Permalink Reply by Ricardo J Rivera on April 16, 2012 at 6:31am

I want to do this too!

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Permalink Reply by djm on April 16, 2012 at 7:19am

Is there a legal way for US citizens without Cuban relatives to do this?

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Permalink Reply by Ricardo J Rivera on April 16, 2012 at 7:56am

I have friends that have made it. It mostly involves traveling to a country like Venezuela or Mexico and travel from there. 

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on April 16, 2012 at 8:57am

I just spent a little time researching, because I've been interested in visiting Cuba and was deterred by the post-9/11 crackdown.  I found one tour company that handles legal travel to Cuba under an educational license.  I found a few tour companies (mostly Canadian) that do Cuban bike tours, but they don't touch the issue of legal U.S. access.  

I've known a few people who have done it with one of the bike tour companies and had a great time, but they went via Mexico, Jamaica or other Caribbean country.  These were before the post-9/11 crackdown, and I *have* heard about people getting busted and hit with big fines after entering Cuba through other countries such as Mexico or Jamaica.

Here's the appropriate info page from the State Dept. web site.   Perhaps the way to go would be to ask a U.S. company handling licensed, legal travel to Cuba to work with someone experienced in bike tours and offer a legal bike tour with enough educational content to qualify under the educational license.  

Your $0.02? 

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