Day 1 Depart USA

Departure for Poland, from your gateway city, meals served on the board of the plane.

Day 2 Arrival Warsaw, Poland

Group will arrive to Poland and its capital city Warsaw, meet with your guide and continue for panoramic city tour and opening holy mass. After mass transfer to hotel, dinner and overnight in Warsaw.

Day 3 Warsaw - Excursion Niepokolanow, St. Kolbe

Today we are on guided city tour of Warsaw - Old Town, the Cathedral, and the Warsaw Ghetto. Early afternoon leave for Niepokolanow, home to St. Maximillian Kolbe who was brutally murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp. We will visit the Franciscan monastery where he lived and worked. St. Maximilian Kolbe was canonized saint by Pope John Paul II. Return to Warsaw, dinner and overnight.

Day 4 Warsaw – Czestochowa

Today group will leave for Czestochowa, first stop is Glogowiec, here we will visit the birthplace of Sister Faustina Kowalska and Swinice Warckie where she was baptized. Late in the afternoon we are in Czestochowa, Jasna Gora - dinner served at your hotel.

Day 5 Czestochowa – Auswitz – Krakow

Jasna Gora is the most important pilgrimage centre in Poland. In the morning sightseeing of the majestic complex of the Sanctuary - Basilica, Treasure House and the Chapel of the Black Madonna with the Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Same day we will leave for Krakow and on the way stop in Auschwitz for visit to this former Nazi concentration camp, now preserved as a museum. Here we will have a chnce to see the cell in which Maximillian Kolbe spent his last days of his life.
Dinner and overnight will be at our hotel in Krakow.

Day 6 Krakow Royal Town – Shrine of Divine Mercy

Morning city tour of Krakow and its Royal town - Wawel visit includes Main Market Square, St. Mary’s Church and Wawel Cathedral with Royal tombs. It is here that Karol Wojtila celebrated his first mass - later became Pope John Paul II. In the afternoon we will leave to the Congregation of Sisters of the Divine Mother of Mercy with the tomb of St. Faustina, she worked and died here. After private holy mass in one of the chapels we will return to the city, to our hotel for dinner and overnight.

Day 7 Krakow – Vienna

After breakfast group will depart for Austria via Czech Republic. Lunch en route. Our arrival to Vienna will be in the afternoon, meeting with our guide for city tour of capital of Austria. Sightseeing tour of Vienna, once the Imperial capital of the Habsburgs will include Winter Imperial Palace, St. Stephen’s cathedral, drive along the “Ringstrasse” with all its monuments such as the Opera House, Votive Church and Parliament Building. Same afternoon you will have a short walk around the magnificent Schonbrunn palace. Dinner will be on our own in the shopping area of “Kertner Strasse”. Overnight will be in our hotel in Vienna.

Day 8 Vienna – Salzburg

After breakfast some free time in the center of Vienna before departure to Salzburg. On the way to Salzburg stop in famous and still active Benedictine Monastery, Melk Abbey. After guided visit group will continue to Salzburg. Late in afternoon some free time at the hotel before dinner and overnight in the city of Mozart.

Day 9 Salzburg – Bavaria, Germany

In the morning city tour of Salzburg, where we will meet and learn more about musical genius Mozart we’ll see his birthplace, walk down the Schwarzstrasse pass by the castles Mirabell, Hellbrunn and Frohnburg. In the afternoon we will leave Austria and set towards the Bavaria – region in the south of Germany. Check in to hotel, dinner and overnight in one of towns on the slopes of the German Alps.

Day 10 Oberammergau, Germany

After breakfast we will leave for Oberammergau. After arrival some free time before lunch and in the afternoon finally enter the Passion Play hall. The Passion of Jesus Christ has been played in this village every 10 years ever since 1634, this year 2010 this will be 41st time!. Same evening we are here for second part of the show and then to our hotel for overnight.
Tonight we are in Oberammergau, one night in this picturesque Bavarian town to remember it for entire life!.

Day 11 Oberammergau - Munich

Castles and palaces are our main target today. We will leave Oberammergau and drive towards the Alps for the visit to Neuschwanstein, King Ludwig's medieval dream castle and view Hohenschwangau and also visit to Wies Church, church of The Scourged Savoiur as one of the most beautiful late baroque, rococo churches in Germany. Pilgrims from all over Europe visit site ever since in 1738 statue of Scourged Jesus wept tears. In the evening we are in Munich, dinner and overnight at our hotel.

Day 12 Munich city tour - farewell dinner

Our first morning in the Munich we will start with the city tour of the capital of Bavaria. We will enter city through one of the city gates (Carl's gate) and on our walking tour meet with the "Marienplatz" dominated by New Town Hall and famous "Glockenspiel", one of the landmarks of Munich. Our morning walk will end with Old Town hall and short prayer and visit to "Frauenkirche" or Church of Our Lady. In the afternoon some free time on your own for shopping, or visits on your own.
Tonight our farewell diner is in a typical Bavarian "Bierkeller".

Day 13 Departure home to the US

Transfer to Munich international airport, our flight back home to the USA - arrival same day.

RATES & SERVICES:

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INCLUDES

• Round trip air fares - tax included - subject to change
• hotel accommodation in 3 and 4 * hotels, superior tourist and first class hotels
• All entrance fees according the program
• Local guides according the itinerary and program for visits
• Porterage of one piece of luggage in /out hotel
• Modern high class A/C coach
• Escort throughout pilgrimage
• Farewell dinner in typical "bierkeller" in Munich
• Daily Holy Mass celebrated by priest in the group
  

NOT INCLUDED

• Tips for guides and drivers
• Items of a personal nature
• Travel insurance available upon request

OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• 1 overnight stay including breakfast according to chosen category
• Hot Lunch or a lavish brunch and dinner on the day of performance in Oberammergau (dinner will be served during the play interval)
• Programme book of the 2010 Passion Play
• Admission ticket to the Passion Play according to chosen category
• Admission ticket for the Oberammergau Museum
• Local Tax

We will provide the Oberammergau packages in combination with a pre- and/or post-tour
(this can be within Germany or as combination with any other destination)

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