Gap Year Programs in Cuba

Improve your Spanish and history skills through a gap year in Cuba. Experience this great country with its unique mix of modern and historical traces. Volunteer in Cuba through a humanitarian or educational programs, or study in the lively city of Havana. Explore the exotic life of Cuba and swim in waterfalls, dance and sing in the streets, play the sacred drums on an Afro-Cuban rhythm and trek Cuba’s highest mountain. And if you’re on a cultural gap year, Cuba is the perfect place to witness real-life effects of communism. Don’t miss your chance at a memorable gap year in Cuba!

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GoEco - Top Rated & Award Winning Volunteer Programs Abroad

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Looking to apply your talent and expertise to a good cause? Find a program that matches your interests and skills through Volunteer World! We are the largest volunteer abroad comparison platform around the globe, enabling you to seek and compare offers from major travel agencies as well as smaller g

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Corazon Cuba

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Learn Spanish, Dance & Culture in Cuba

Are you interested in learning Spanish? Study at our school/hostel in the heart of Old Havana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and take morning language lessons from Monday to Friday. In the afternoons, enjoy dance classes and cultural excursions. We also have weekend trips to the beach and a two-nigh

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University Expeditions - Tanzania

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A Guide to Gap Year in Cuba

Popular Locations

Here are some of the most popular locations that are guaranteed to give you your dream gap year in Cuba!

Havana. There is no other place in the world that looks or feels like Havana. This enchanting and seductive city, and the capital of this great country, is most popular location, with a wide range of volunteer placements in community development, health care, or education. You can immerse yourself in the Cuban culture through a study program or by living with a host family. Havana is a fast-developing city, slowly catching up with the rest of the world. Let yourself be seduced by the vivacious nightlife, visit the UNESCO World Heritage sites, or travel outside the city and explore the fishing village that inspired Hemingway to write The Old Man and the Sea.

Santiago de Cuba. Cuba is not just Havana. Although a poor town where the faces of revolution still seem to mean something and look kind of grim, Santiago de Cuba is anything but grim. Spend your gap year with a host family, finally master Spanish, relax on the beach, drink the best rum in Cuba, swim, spend time with your new family and friends, hit the streets of Santiago and dance with the locals, and immerse yourself in the incredible Cuban culture.