Day
1 New York - Warsaw
Board your transatlantic flight bound for Warsaw, Poland. Dinner
served on board.
Day 2
Warsaw
After meeting our guide, we transfer to our hotel. In the evening a
welcome dinner and show at a local restaurant. Overnight.
Day 3
Warsaw
After breakfast, we visit all the landmarks of Warsaw: Old Town,
Market Square, the Barbican, the Warsaw Ghetto Monument, Lazienki
Park, the Chopin statue, and the beautifully restored Royal Castle.
We celebrate Mass at St Stanislaw Kostka Church before dinner and
overnight.
Day 4
Warsaw - Czestochowa
After breakfast, we travel to Poland's greatest pilgrimage shrine,
Our Lady of Czestochowa. Our Holy Father has frequently visited
Jasna Gorna Monastery, known as the Shrine of the Black Madonna. We
celebrate Mass at the Pauline Monastery and venerate its priceless
treasures, including the Miraculous Icon. Dinner and
overnight.
Day 5
Czestochowa - Wadowice - Zakopane
Breakfast, then continue to our first stop: Wadowice, the birthplace
of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II. Then we travel to Zakopane,
the resort village nestled in the splendor of the Tatras region. We
will take a cable car ride to the nearby mountain-top for an
incredible panoramic vista. Dinner and overnight.
Day 6
Zakopane - Krakow
We leave beautiful Zakopane for the great city of Krakow. Time
permitting, we visit the Wieliczka Salt Mines. Once settled in, time
for a stroll in the old city. Dinner and overnight.
Day
7 Krakow
After breakfast, we explore Market Square and hear the silver
trumpet of the bugler from St Mary's Tower. Within the Cathedral you
may pray before the extraordinary Wit Stwosz altar. We will see
Wawel Hill, the Cathedral, Coronation Chapel, and the Royal Chambers
where a superb collection of Arras tapestries is on display. In the
afternoon we go to Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi concentration camp.
We will see the cell of St Maximillian Kolbe and the Martyrdom
Museum. Return to Krakow for dinner and overnight.
Day 8
Krakow - Warsaw
After breakfast we return to Warsaw. Ample free time will be
provided for relaxation or further touring to the Shrine of Sister
Faustina who began the devotion to the Divine Mercy and to the
burial site of St Stanislaw. Dinner and overnight.
Day 9
Warsaw - USA
We leave Warsaw for the return flight to the US.
Your
Trip Includes:
Round-trip flight, New York / Warsaw
7 nights at 4-star hotels:
3 nights Warsaw
1 night Czestochowa
1 night Zakopane
2 nights Krakow
Breakfast and dinner daily
All transfers by private motorcoach
Sightseeing tours and entrance fees
Local guides and tour escorts
Luggage handling and hotel taxes
Mass daily
Flight bag and portfolio of travel documents
Not
Included: Airport tax of $85. Travel insurance at $99. Lunch. Tips
to guides & drivers ($5 per day). Items of a personal nature.
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