TOTAL COST:
• $1365 for students under 25
• $1610 for students 25 or older
(plus
approx. $60 tuition for HUM296 course)
PROGRAM FEE INCLUDES:
• Round-trip airfare
• 9 overnight stays in hotels with
private bathrooms
• Continental breakfast and dinner daily
• Full-time bilingual EF Tour Director
• 4 sightseeing tours led by licensed guides
• 12 visits to special attractions
• 1 walking tour and 2 sightseeing
briefings
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Day 1-2: Arrive in France – Paris
Fly overnight to France
and meet your EF Tour Director on Day 2. Stroll through the Tuileries on our
EF walking tour and pass through Place de la Concorde, where the guillotine
once stood. Next, you'll pay a visit to the Louvre, home to da Vinci's Mona
Lisa.
Day 3: Paris --Versailles
On your guided tour of
Paris, see the massive Arc de Triomphe and visit Notre Dame. Snap a photo
of France's national symbol, the Eiffel Tower. Across the Champ de Mars,
you can see the École Militaire, where Napoleon received his military
training. Journey this afternoon to Versailles, Louis XIV's showplace of
palatial luxury. Versailles served as the capital of the French monarchy
until the Revolution, when Parisians demanded that their king and queen
live among the masses.
Day 4 - 5: Loire Valley
Visit the 13th-century
cathedral at Chartres en route to the Loire Valley and pass by Chambord,
the area's largest château. On Day 5, tour the Château de Chenonceau-nicknamed
the Palace of Romance-and Amboise, where Leonardo da Vinci is buried. Attend
a wine cellar presentation and then take in a Sound and Light Show at Azay-le-Rideau,
an elegant Renaissance castle set on an island in the Indre River.
Day 6-7: St. Malo – Caen
Continue on to Brittany's
Atlantic coast. Visit the islet monastery of Mont-St-Michel, and stop in St.
Malo, once a pirate outpost. On Day 7, pay tribute to WWII soldiers at Caen's
Mémorial and see the Normandy beaches where the Allied invasion took
place.
Day 8: Rouen – Paris
A local guide relates
the history of Rouen, where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake during the
Hundred Years' War. Return to Paris for one last night.
Day 9: Depart for home.
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