Faith-Based Tasteful Journeys

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Budapest, Prague, & Berlin

A Deluxe Jewish Interest Tour 2011

*$3956 Per Person
May 13-22, 2011; June 13-22, 2011; September 9-18, 2011

*$3746 Per Person
July 15-24, 2011; August 12-21, 2011

Travel to these three majestic and historic cities. This exclusive program includes a special focus on the Jewish experience, including visits to important sites, memorials and museums.
Tour Includes:

Deluxe Hotels:

3 nights Budapest, Corvinus Kempinski Hotel
3 nights Prague, Intercontinental Hotel
3 nights Berlin, Palace Hotel

Buffet breakfast daily
3 Dinners including one dinner at the world famous
Gundel Restaurant in Budapest
Private Car Transfers
Flight between Budapest and Prague
Motorcoach via Dresden to Berlin
Comprehensive Sightseeing Tours including these highlights:

Prague: Charles Bridge, Wenceslas Square,
15th Century Jewish Cemetery, Alt-Neu Synagogue
Budapest: Heroes' Square, Castle District, Dohany
Street Synagogue, Raoul Wallenberg Memorial
Dresden: City Sightseeing
Berlin: The Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie,
The Jewish Museum, New Synagogue

Hotel taxes and service charges

Price is land only, per person, based on double occupancy.
Subject to availability. Restrictions apply. Single price is $5053 May, Jun, Sep; $4589 Jul, Aug. Call for special airfares from various U.S. cities. Based on a minimum of 15 participants

FRIDAY BUDAPEST

Arrive in Budapest, the sophisticated capital of Hungary; private transfer to your hotel. Time to explore this beautiful city on your own. In the evening, meet your guide to attend evening services at the impressive Dohaney Street Synagogue.

SATURDAY BUDAPEST

Morning optional Shabbat services at the Dohaney Street Synagogue. Afternoon walking tour with your guide of lively Budapest. Evening: Dinner at the world-famous Gundel Restaurant which has entertained kings and queens with its incredible cuisine and lively gypsy music. (B,D)

SUNDAY BUDAPEST

With your private driver and guide, explore Buda and Pest with their wealth of historic monuments, linked by eight graceful bridges. Pass the impressive House of Parliament, the medieval Castle District, Fishermen's Bastion, Matthias Church, Heroes' Square, and Gellert Hill, which boasts magnificent panoramic views of the city.

Continue to the old Jewish section of the city: the Jewish Museum with its wealth of artifacts; the Weeping Willow Memorial; the beautifully restored Dohany Street Synagogue; and the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial, honoring the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.

Tonight enjoy a boat cruise on the Danube River; see Budapest’s most beautiful sights all aglow at night! (B)

MONDAY BUDAPEST-PRAGUE

Transfer to the airport for a short flight to Prague.
Meeting and transfer to your hotel. Time to rest before a tour of all the historical districts of the city with their famous monuments, including Prague Castle, St. Vitus Cathedral, and the enchanting Charles Bridge. Your impressions will be enhanced by a walk through the Old Town Square where you can admire the Astronomical Clock and the Old Town Hall. (B)

TUESDAY PRAGUE

Morning Jewish interest walking tour features the old Jewish town, including the former Ghetto area; the Jewish Town Hall; the old Jewish cemetery; and the Jewish State Museum, a vast network of buildings and synagogues and the Alt-Neu Schul, built in 1270. Remainder of the day at leisure to enjoy this charming city on your own. (B)

WEDNESDAY PRAGUE

Day at leisure. Or participate in the optional pilgrimage to Terezin, the former Nazi concentration camp. The Small Fortress, used from the beginning as a prison, became the largest concentration camp in Bohemia during WWII. It was a place of big contrast between two absolutely different worlds: prisoners, surviving in a terrible situation in crowded cells; against Gestapo guards, living in luxury, just behind a wall. The big Fortress, the original garrison town, was converted into a Jewish Ghetto through which more than 150,000 Jews passed; 35,000 of them died from inhuman living conditions and racial persecution. Part of your tour includes a visit to the Jewish Museum with a permanent exhibition on the history of the Ghetto. Further you will visit the National Cemetery of the victims of fascism and the crematorium with the Jewish Cemetery. After your visit, return to Prague for the remainder of the day at leisure until your special evening dinner. (B,D)

THURSDAY PRAGUE - DRESDEN - BERLIN

Transfer by private motorcoach to Berlin with a stop in Dresden to see this beautiful baroque city. Arrive in Berlin; transfer to your hotel. Remainder of the day to explore this amazing city on your own. (B)

FRIDAY BERLIN

“The Jewish Life in Berlin” half-day tour covers all the major sites and buildings associated with the community in its heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries. View the New Synagogue, the New Jewish Museum, the memorial “Murdered Jews of Europe,” former site of the Old Synagogue, and much more…

The remainder of the day is at leisure. (B)

SATURDAY BERLIN

Morning half-day tour includes views of the Memorial Church, the KaDeWe department store, former Checkpoint Charlie, the Brandenburg Gate, remains of the Berlin Wall and the Reichstag (Parliament). See the House of the Wannsee Conference. The conference concerned itself with the implementation of the “Final Solution”, the decision to deport the Jewish population of Eastern Europe to the East and murder them. Also see the Grunewald Memorial, erected by the train station which was one of the major sites of deportation of the Jewish population to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Terezin. Afternoon at leisure.

This evening enjoy a Farewell Dinner to share memories of your wonderful trip with your newfound friends. (B,D)

SUNDAY EN ROUTE

Transfer to the airport for return flight. (B)

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