RIVER / SMALL SHIP CRUISING
Traveling Well Includes… • Gratuities to ship staff, drivers, local guides, Tauck Directors and Tauck Cruise Director
• All private Tauck shore excursions – $985 Value! • Reception and dinner at Fouquet’s, followed by a city lights tour of Paris at night • Travel aboard the high-speed TGV from Paris to Lyon • Private wine tastings at the source – Beaujolais and Châteaneuf-du-Pape • Cooking demonstration and a wine and cheese tasting at an award-winning cooking school • Provençal dinner overlooking Avignon’s Pont du Gard • Airport transfers upon arrival and departure as noted • 23 meals, beer & wine with lunch & dinner on the riverboat, service charges, taxes & porterage
4. SAMPLING THE MANY PLEASURES OF LYON You’ll see why Lyon is a place for eating well during today’s tour that includes a tasting lunch at the famous Les Halles de Lyon, attracting the best of Lyonnaise chefs. With your fellow travelers you’ll enjoy samplings of culinary delights perfectly paired with wine. But Lyon’s treasures do not consist of “bread alone,” so today’s sightseeing includes a visit to Vieux Lyon – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – and the 19th-century Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière. Later, travel to the Beaujolais region for a wine tasting, then cruise south on the Rhône. Meals BLD
5. MEDIEVAL VIVIERS – A GAME OF PÉTANQUE Enjoy a morning’s cruise to Viviers, a walled city with origins in the 5th century on the right bank of the Rhône. Explore its narrow streets with a local guide; see the 12th-century Cathedral of Notre Dame de Rhône and the richly detailed façade of the Maison des Chevaliers. Try your hand at an outdoor game of pétanque with the locals, perhaps with a glass of anise-flavored pastis in hand. Meals BLD
6. ARLES, A ROMAN HERITAGE STILL AT PLAY In Roman times, Arles was a key port along the Rhône, a major political capital and an ardent center of religion with its own triumphal arch, circus, baths, and a 1st-century BC arena built for 10,000 spectators. In contrast, the Arles that Vincent van Gogh found when he relocated from Paris in 1888 was a quiet and tranquil Provençal town. Its landscapes of yellow rocks, red soil and lilac mountains inspired a newfound creativity and led to one his most productive periods. Upon arrival in Arles, you’ll take a guided walking tour of the town that is today a blend of ancient and new – where bullfights take place in the arena once the scene of Roman games. Meals BLD
7. FIT FOR A PROVENÇAL POPE IN AVIGNON Since the 1870s French schoolchildren have sung about dancing on the bridge over the Rhône in this walled city that served as a papal headquarters in the 1300s. On a walking
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tour, you’ll explore the fortress-like home that the pontiffs built for themselves, the Palais des Papes. The popes who reigned from Avignon enjoyed not only their formidable lodgings but also the fruit of the vine; they are credited with cultivating the local wine industry widely recognized today by the nomenclature, Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Along with the 14th-century bridge mentioned in the song, schedule permitting, this evening you’ll visit another – the Pont du Gard, a Roman aqueduct standing 160 feet high with three sets of arches that span the River Gardon. Join us for a festive Provençal-style reception and dinner, featuring Provençal wine and entertainment set against the backdrop of this impressive work of engineering. Meals BLD
Paris Maximum Elevation: 925 ft.
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