GREECE AND ITALY WITH CRUISE

SCHEDULED DEPARTURE DATE:  Wednesday, MARCH 27, 2002

TOUR COMPANY: EFT Tours (Call 1-800-665-5364 or visit on-line at    )

THE TRIP: 5 Days in Italy; 3 on the mainland of Greece; and a 3-day cruise of the Greek and Turkish islands of the Aegean Sea

 

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

Round-Trip airfare

Overnight stays in hotels with private bathrooms; plus 1 night cabin accommodation

Contintental breakfast and dinner daily

Full-time bilingual EF Tour Director

6 sightseeing tours

9 visits to special atttractions

3-day Cruise extension, including 3 meals daily and overnight accommodation

 

THE TOUR ITINERARY

 

DAY 1-2:  ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME

Arrive in Rome after an overnight flight.  Accompanied by an EFT Tour Director, we will visit the Spanish Steps, the Pantheon, and the Piazza Navona.

DAY 3:  FROM CREATION TO FALL

We will visit the Vatican, home to the Pope and to some of the world's most famous art (remember not to wear shorts or to leave your arms uncovered if you expect to see the inside of St. Peter's Basilica, however!).  Then, it's off to explore the heart of ancient Rome, highlighted by a visit to the Colosseum and a walk through the Forum, where Romulus and the Vestal Virgins were worshipped and Julius Caesar was assassinated.

 

DAY 4:  UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN

We will take a day trip to Florence, center of the Italian Renaissance.  Although the Florentines of the sixteenth-century could be Machiavellian, the city is better known today as the home to the Uffizi, Michelangelo's "David," and Botticelli's "Venus de Milo." 

 

 

DAY 5:  LET'S GO SPELUNKING

We will cross the Bay of Naples to the Isle of Capri and its famed Blue Grotto.

 

DAY 6:  A GHOST TOWN ROMAN STYLE

Hopefully, Mt. Vesuvius will not erupt.  In that case,  we'll just have to make a very quick visit to POMPEII, a lively Roman resort town until its own encounter with that volcano in AD 79.

 

DAY 7-8:  KNOW THYSELF!

After an overnight ferry across the Adriatic, we will arrive on Mainland Greece.  We will travel to Delphi, the site of the Temple of Apollo, a place that was, according to the ancients, the center of the universe, and the home for the omphalos, the sacred stone swallowed by Cronus in place of the infant Zeus.

 

 

DAY 9:  THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE

We visit Athens, the birthplace of Western democracy.  We will scale the heights of the Acropolis, and see the Parthenon and the Temple of Athena Nike. 

 

DAY 10-12: SAILING THE CYCLADES

Cruise the Aegean aboard a Royal Olympic liner. Ports of call include Kusadasi, Turkey; Patmos, the place on which St. John the Evangelist wrote the Book of Revelation; Rhodes, a bastion for medieval crusaders and once home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World;  and Mykonos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                PATMOS                                                                                    RHODES

 

ADDENDUM:  A WORD FROM THE ORACLE

Are you feeling just a little tied down?    Perhaps a little self-conscious in your nakedness?    Eager to connect up your learning with the world outside the classroom?    Keep the faith.  You'll soon be able to  break free.

      . . . And you will fly.

 

 

HinmanSmith and then m for EC