SOUTHERN SIGHTS & SOUNDS...
Bourbon & Bluegrass at The Mansion Enjoy a Tauck Exclusive special event featuring dinner, a bourbon tasting, and a live bluegrass band at The Mansion at Griffin Gate; the property, rising on a picturesque grassy knoll in Lexington, Kentucky, is graciously furnished with crystal chandeliers, rare antiques and paintings.
The Shakers of Pleasant Hill Shakers considered work as a form of worship, and their legendary craftsmanship and architectural ingenuity are among the many wonders you’ll discover at the preserved Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Experience 11,000 years of Cherokee history and culture at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina; this state-of-the-art museum features interactive exhibits, holograms, imagery,
sound, and special effects relating the story of the Cherokee people’s inventiveness and resilience from the ancient past to the present. Your visit includes a privately guided tour and an exclusive private vault viewing.
Tour the backstretch at Churchill Downs, meet a professional jockey, and have lunch aboard a paddle wheeler – the General Jackson Showboat
French-inspired château; he employed architect Richard Morris Hunt for the castle design and Frederick Law Olmsted (the designer of Central Park) to lay out the woodlands and formal gardens. You’ll have an opportunity to learn more about this magnificent estate on tours of both the estate grounds and through the mansion itself. See Antler Hill Village, a town built to house the employees who worked on the estate and tended its crops and livestock. After lunch on the estate, take a short drive to the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway, a museum of Appalachian arts and crafts, for a private presentation about Appalachian music. Return to Asheville for an evening spent as you please. Meals BL
6. GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Today you’ll experience one of the most beautiful, and one of the oldest, places on earth – Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the US. Historically, it is known as a place of refuge; the fascinating story of its creation includes the heroic efforts of Horace Kephart, George Masa and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Ecologically, the park is one of the world’s best examples of a deciduous hardwood forest – a UNESCO World Heritage Site with one of the most diverse ecosystems on earth, it is dedicated as an international biosphere reserve. Scenically, the grandeur
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