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September 07 2010

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August 24, 2010

New tour - West Africa’s Hidden Gems
Departing on 27th December 2011 this new 40-day tour travels through Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde islands, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau
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The first two weeks of West Africa’s Hidden Gems are spent travelling through Nigeria - and for people with limited time at their disposal we offer the opportunity to take this as a short-duration 17-day tour.
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The Horn of Africa - Omo Option
Our pioneering tour to this remote region departing on 22 January is proving to be very popular and we already have sufficient passengers to justify its operation.
As several of our regular clients who are taking this tour have already visited Ethiopia’s Historic Route (Lalibela, Gondar and Lake Tana) on a previous tour, we have arranged for their benefit an alternative tour to the country’s south - the fascinating Omo Valley, a remote area inhabited by more than twenty distinctive tribes.

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Via Appia

Benevento - Arch of Trajan

Apollonia - The Bouleuterion

Berat Citadel

Lake Ohrid - Hotel Inex Gorica

Bitola - Ruins of Heraclea

Pella - Mosaics

Spring Flowers at Phillippi

Edirne - Mosque of Selimiye

Istanbul - Ciragan Palace Hotel overlooking the Bosphoris

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Via Egnatia 2011
March 31, 2011 - 22 Days

VISITING

ITALY - Rome (2 nights) - Via Appia - Benevento (1night) - Brindisi - Ferry to Vlora (1 night)

ALBANIA - Vlora - Apollonia - Berat (1 night) - Durres - Tirana (2 nights) - Kruja - Elbasani

MACEDONIA - Lake Ohrid (3 nights) - St Naum Ohridski - Bitola (1 night) - Heraclea

GREECE - Nymfaio - Edessa (1 nights) - Pella - Thessalonika (2 nights) - Vergina - Kavala (2 nights) - Philippi - Alexandroupolis (1 night)

TURKEY - Edirne - Istanbul (2 nights)

ITINERARY

Day 1 Thursday: By air to Rome - Afternoon departure by Malaysia Airlines from Sydney, Melbourne, Perth or Adelaide via Kuala Lumpur to Rome

Day 2 Friday: In Rome - Morning arrival in Rome. Afternoon at leisure. Stay two nights at Hotel Regina Baglioni

Day 3 Saturday: In Rome - Morning and afternoon sightseeing.

Day 4 Sunday: By road to Benevento - Morning drive along the Via Appia via Capua and Caserta to Benevento. Afternoon visit the Arch of Trajan and the Roman Theatre. Overnight at Hotel Villa Traiano

Day 5 Monday: By road to Brindisi, then by overnight ferry to Vlora - Morning drive to Brindisi to see the column which marked the end of the Via Appia. Overnight ferry to Vlora (Albania) with de-luxe cabins

Day 6 Tuesday: By road to Berat - Morning arrival in Vlora for the drive to Apollonia to see the Bouleuterion. Afternoon drive to Berat for sightseeing. Overnight Hotel Tomori

Day 7 Wednesday: By road to Tirana - Morning drive to Durres for sightseeing. Afternoon drive to Tirana. Stay for two nights at Tirana Sheraton Hotel

Day 8 Thursday: In Tirana - Morning sightseeing tour. Afternoon excursion to Kruja to visit Skanderbeg’s Castle and the medieval bazaar

Day 9 Friday: By road to Lake Ohrid - Morning drive to Elbasani to visit the ancient fortress and Roman bridge. Afternoon drive via Struga [Macedonia] (visit) to Ohrid . Stay three nights at Hotel Inex Gorica

Day 10 Saturday: At Lake Ohrid - Morning boat ride to St Naum monastery, returning by road via St Naum Spring and the Museum on the water. Afternoon visit the Old City, Church of Sveti Sofia and the National Museum.

Day 11 Sunday: At Ohrid - Further sightseeing in Ohrid including the church of Sveti Jovan Kaneo, Tsar Samoik's Fortress, the Roman amphitheatre and the Church of Sveti Kliment

Day 12 Monday: By road to Bitola - Morning drive to Bitola. Afternoon visit the old bazaar, the 16th century mosques and the ruins of Heraclea. Overnight at Millenium Hotel

Day 13 Tuesday: By road to Edessa - Morning drive to Nymfaio (Greece) to visit the Arcturos Bear Sanctuary. Afternoon drive to Edessa to visit the waterfall, open-air water museum and the Hemp Factory. Overnight at Hotel Aigai

Day 14 Wednesday: By road to Thessaloniki - Morning drive to Pella, birthplace of Alexander the Great to visit the museum and the 4th century BC mosaics. Afternoon drive to Thessaloniki. Stay two nights at Hotel Capsis Bristol

Day 15 Thursday: In Thessaloniki - Morning sightseeing visiting the Turkish Quarter, Archaeological Museum, Arch of Galerius and ther White Tower, Afternoon excursion to Vergina and the Royal tombs of Macedon

Day 16 Friday: By road to Kavala - Morning drive to Kavala. Afternoon at leisure. Stay two nights at Imaret Hotel

Day 17 Saturday: In Kavala - Morning excursion to the ancient site of Philippi. Afternoon sightseeing visiting the Byzantine Fortress and museum

Day 18 Sunday: By road to Alexandroupolis - Morning drive to Alexandroupolis. Afternoon visit the Ethnological Museum of Thrace and the old caravanserai. Overnight at Egnatia Grand Hotel

Day 19 Monday: By road to Istanbul - Morning drive to Edirne (Turkey) to visit the Mosque of Selimiye. Afternoon drive to Istanbul. Stay two nights at the Ciragan Palace Kempinski Hotel

Day 20 Tuesday: In Istanbul - Full day sightseeing including the Hippodrome, Blue Mosque, St. Sophia Museum, Topkapi Palace and the bazaar

Day 21 Wednesay: By air to Kuala Lumpur - Morning boat ride on the Bosphorus to Atakoy. Afternoon Malaysia Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur. Overnight in flight

Day 22 Thursday 21 April: By air to Australia - Morning arrival in Kuala Lumpur with connecting Malaysia Airlines flights to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth (with onward connecting flight to Adelaide)

Tariffs per person [share twin]

from Sydney, Melbourne or Perth - $17,950
from Sydney back to Brisbane* - $17,950
from Adelaide back to Perth# - $17,950

Supplements:

Single room - $2,184
Business class air travel on International flights - $4,600

*Passengers from Brisbane will be offered a connecting flight to Sydney on Day 1 with Qantas or Virgin Blue at the best prevailing one-way fare

#Passengers for Adelaide will be offered a connecting flight from Perth with Qantas or Virgin Blue on Day 22 at the best prevailing one-way fare