FRANKLIN’S PHILADELPHIA . . . Historic Philadelphia, Gettysburg & Valley Forge
Monday - Thursday June 21 - 24, 2010
$634 per person ($154 single supplement)
Thanks to founder William Penn’s smart and simple grid street design, the
second-largest city on the East Coast is a relatively easy city to navigate.
Philadelphia is proud that it is the birthplace of America, built on
Independence and innovation . . . much of which you’ll be seeing with your Great
Day! Tours Tour Director.
Our Colonial-attired Philadelphian guide will be showing us, among a number of
areas, “ . . . the most historic square mile in the United States”, including
the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Congress Hall, Franklin Court, the Betsy
Ross house, Christ Church and Elfreth’s Alley. We’ll be seeing many more sites
during our driving tour, including those along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
(the Champs Elysees of Philadelphia), the Rodin Museum and the Philadelphia
Museum of Art with its “Rocky” steps. We’ll be stopping at lunch time at the
Bourse Building in the heart of Philadelphia.
During this four-day adventure we’ll also be visiting Gettysburg, where history
lives. We’ll be stopping at the new Visitors Center and experiencing a narrated
tour through the 6,000-acre Gettysburg National Military Park. As we tour the
battlefield, there are close to 1,400 monuments and markers dotting the
landscape, linking the present with the past on the very soil where the conflict
occurred. We’ll be dining right in Gettysburg at the oldest and most historic
house, built in 1776, in candlelit elegance.
This tour includes a total of seven meals, and Boyd’s Bear Country, which boasts
that it has “the world’s most humungous Teddy Bear”. For those interested, you
can even adopt a baby bear cub at their Teddy Bear Nursery. Even if you are not
into these cuddly creatures, you will be able to partake in their “buffet-style
eatery” or visit the General Store. We’ll also be touring Valley Forge, the site
where General George Washington and his beleaguered Continental Army endured the
winter of 1777 - 1778. This includes such sites as the farmhouse that Washington
used as his headquarters, soldier huts, parade grounds, the Memorial Chapel and
the Memorial Arch. This tour, as you can see, is steeped in interesting history.
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