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greece, madedonia & bulgaria

 

In the footsteps of Alexander the Great.

23 inspiring days

Escorted Tours

Tour dates:

2 - 24 October, 2010

Tour leader:

Escorted from New Zealand by

 

Ian Dunwoodie

Tour price:

$11,800 (est.) per person, share twin

Single supplement:

$1,800 (est.)

Tour price includes

  • All airfares and taxes
  • 1 night in Singapore on the way to Greece
  • Dayroom in Singapore on the way home
  • Accommodation in 3-star, 4-star & 5-star hotels
  • All breakfasts and dinners in Greece, Macedonia and Bulgaria
  • Touring by deluxe air-conditioned coach
  • Group tipping
  • Services of an experienced Tour Director
  • Assistance of your kiwi tour leader, Ian Dunwoodie


Highlights

  • Stand inside the tomb of Alexander the Great’s father.
  • Indulge your envy as you take in the treasures of the Macedonian kings.
  • Soak up the sun on the white beach of an Aegean island.
  • Visit dramatic Rila monastery in Bulgaria’s beautiful mountains.
  • Discover the city of Sofia, capital of Bulgaria.
  • Get to know the tiny Republic of Macedonia, one of our newest nations.
  • Sail on ancient Lake Ohrid.
  • Enter one of the mountaintop monasteries of Greece’s Meteora.
  • Stand at Thermopylae where the 300 Spartans stood, delaying a vast army.
  • And where New Zealanders did the same thing, two-and-half millennia later!
  • Walk over the Navel of the World, stunning mountain home of the Oracle of Delphi.
  • Run (jog? walk?) in the first and most famous Olympic stadium.
  • Walk through the Lion Gate into the great citadel of
    "Mycenae rich in gold", palace of Agamemnon who
    generalled the Greeks for 10 years before the walls of Troy.
  • And look on the golden death mask, “the face of Agamemnon”!
  • Stand where Socrates stood. And Plato. And Aristotle and Sophocles and Euripides…!
  • And above all, drink in the glories of the Athenian Acropolis and stand before the timeless Parthenon.
 







 
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