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(Rates per person) Includes car rental, daily accommodations, breakfasts, 1 dinner. Schedules, excursions and site visits are just suggestions. $2514.00 (2 traveling) $2405.00 (4 traveling) $2395.00 (6 traveling)
Morning car pick up at Bordeaux
railroad station or airport. On to hotel Etche Ona, next to Grand Theater.
(15 minutes from railroad station and 35 minutes from airport. Park in
underground parking. Drop off your luggage at hotel. Take walking tour
of city (1h30) from tourist office next to Grand Theater. Lunch at leisure.
On with your car along wine route of Medoc region, northwest of the city:
Margaux (35 minutes). Stop for tour (40 minutes). On to Pauillac (15 minutes).
Stop at Producers center and Museum (30minutes). On to Mouton Rothschild
(10 minutes) for tour and wine tasting (1h).
Breakfast
at the hotel. Suggested departure time: 10:00am.On to Chateau Grand
Barrail (1h20) to drop off your luggage. On to Saint Emilion (20 minutes).
Park on the parking on the top of city. Free time for lunch. Take little
excursion train tour of vineyards and city (1h). Visit the underground
church hollowed out of a single rock in the limestone strata. Free time
for wine tasting and shopping. Dinner at leasure and overnight at Chateau
Grand Barrail, a traditional wine chateau hotel (20 minutes
from town). Breakfast at the Château. Suggested departure: 10am.On to Les Eyzies, prehistoric capital city of France. (2h). Lunch at leisure. Tour of Font de Gaume Prehistoric painted cave (1h). Tour of Prehistory Museum (1h). On to Sarlat (30 minutes). Walking tour of this medieval town with guide from tourist office (1h). On to Domaine de Rochebois, Renaissance castle hotel. (15 minutes). Dinner at leasure. Overnight Rochebois.
Breakfast
at the château. Suggested departure time: 9:30am.On to Lascaux
(45 minutes).
Breakfast at the château.
Suggested departure time: 9:30am.On to Rocamadour (1h15). Park at parking
on top of city and take elevator down. Tour of medieval pilgrimage sanctuaries
built off the cliff in a dramatic setting (45 minutes). Lunch at leisure.
. On to Cahors (1h). Stop (1h) to stroll through medieval streets and take
a picture of the six arches famous Valentre Bridge. On to Saint Car la
Potpie (30 minutes). Tour of this medieval town built over a cliff (1h).
On to Figeac (30 minutes). Dinner at leasure. Overnight at exceptional
medieval town mansion Viguier du Roy.
Breakfast at the hotel. Suggested
departure time: 9am.On to Conques medieval town (30 minutes). Tour of city
and exceptional monastery’s cloister and church. (1h). Lunch at leasure.
On to Albi (1h15). Tour of Toulouse Lautrec Museum who was a native from
this town. (1h30) And of fortifies pink stone Basilica (35 minutes). On
to Garrevaques (1h) for dinner with wines and overnight at private Chateau
Garrevaques.
Breakfast at the château.
Suggested departure time: 10am.On through scenic mountain road to Carcassonne
(1h15). Tour of chateau (1h). Lunch at leisure. Free time in this town,
which is the oldest, inhabited medieval walled town in Europe. Dinner at
leasure and Overnight at Medieval Hotel de la
Cite, overlooking the walled town.
Breakfast at the hotel. Suggested departure time: 10am.1 h drive to Toulouse, the pink city. Walking tour of the city including St Sernin’s Basilica. (1h30). Lunch at leasure. On to airport or railroad
station for return of the car.
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Day 1: Bordeaux. (Medoc wine region)
Day 2: Bordeaux, St Emilion.
Day 3: St Emilion, Dordogne. (Les Eyzies, Sarlat)
Day 4: Dordogne. (Lascaux, Domme, Beynac)
Day 5: Dordogne, Midi Pyrenees. (Rocamadour, Cahors, St Cirq la Popie,
Figeac)
Day 6: Midi Pyrenees. (Conques, Albi)
Day 7: Midi Pyrenees. (Carcassonne)
Day 8: Midi Pyrenees. (Toulouse)