Crossroads of Four Cultures

Austria - Slovenia - Croatia Bosnia-Herzegovina

Vienna - Klagenfurt - Ljubljana - Lake Bled Plitvice Lakes - Zagreb - Mostar - - Dubrovnik August 17-29, 2018

Vienna pre-extension August 15-17, 2018

Traveling Scholar Fred Rosenbaum, Founding Director Emeritus of Lehrhaus Judaica, is the award-winning author of eight books. He has led 24 study tours, half of them in Europe.

VIENNA Pre -Extension

Tuesday August 14 (In Flight) Depart US

Wednesday August 15 (D) Arrive in Vienna Welcome dinner in a local restaurant walking distance from the hotel. Overnight: Hotel Steigenberger Herrenhof

Thursday August 16 (B) Tour Vienna: City Tour, Historic that survived Kristallnacht, Holocaust memorial, and the Baroque Belvedere Palace and its Gustav Klimt collection. At the end of the day visit the Jewish Museum.

Overnight: Hotel Steigenberger Herrenhof

Schoenbrunn Palace, Vienna

Friday August 17 (B, D) Visit the educational center Centropa, guided by its founding director, photographer and filmmaker Edward Serrota. Attend a presentation about the . Continue to the Schoenbrunn Palace from where the Habsburg dynasty dominated Central Europe and much of the for centuries. The main tour starts in Vienna on Friday, August 17 with a Shabbat service at the Stadttempel follow by Shabbat dinner at the hotel. Overnight: Hotel Steigenberger Herrenhof

Saturday August 18 (B, L, D) Depart Vienna for Bled, Slovenia, stop for lunch and a brief city tour of Klagenfurt, capital of the Austrian federal state of Carinthia. Visit the spacious Neue Platz, home to the city's most famous landmark, the massive Dragon Fountain, and continue for a walking tour in a city founded in 1161. Overnight: Golf Hotel, Bled

Lake Bled, Slovenia Sunday August 19 (B, D) Tour scenic Lake Bled, in northwestern Slovenia, where it adjoins the town of Bled. Visit Tito’s former villa. Overnight: Golf Hotel Bled

Monday August 20 (B) Depart Bled for Zagreb, Croatia, stopping in charming Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital, for a city tour and lunch. Arrive in Zagreb and tour that medieval city’s Old Town Overnight: Hotel Esplanade

Tuesday August 21 (B) Zagreb: Panel Discussion with Jewish leaders including VP of local community and a professor of Holocaust studies at Zagreb University, visit the fascinating Jewish section of the municipal cemetery, and the Museum of the City of Zagreb Overnight: Hotel Esplanade

Wednesday August 22 (B, L) Day trip to Jasenovac concentration camp with a talk on the bus by Fred Rosenbaum about in . Stop for group lunch on the way back in traditional Croatian restaurant in the village of Cigoc. Free time in Zagreb in late afternoon Overnight: Hotel Esplanade

Thursday August 23 (B, D) Depart for Plitvice Lakes (2 hours) Tour of the exquisite lakes, waterfalls, and gorges in this UNESCO World Heritage national park. Overnight: Hotel Markola

Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

Friday August 24 (B, L, D) Depart for Sarajevo, stopping for lunch in Slavanski-Brod, the setting of Murder on the Orient Express, then on to Sarajevo. Shabbat dinner with members of the Jewish community in a traditional Bosnian restaurant. Overnight: Hotel Europe

Saturday August 25 (B) Tour Sarajevo including city tour, main mosque, and tour of the siege (1992-95), Visit Ottoman-style Svrzo’s House. Overnight: Hotel Europe

Sarajevo synagogue, Bosnia

Sunday August 26 (B) Tour Sarajevo: synagogue-museum and unusual Jewish cemetery; view the Sarajevo Haggadah at the National Museum if possible (It is normally not on public display). Free afternoon and evening Overnight: Hotel Europe

Monday August 27 (B, D) Depart for Mostar, stopping at historic and natural sites along the

way, guided tour of Mostar then on to Dubrovnik. Dinner at the hotel. Overnight: Hotel Sheraton in Mlini

Tuesday August 28 (B, D) Tour Dubrovnik: medieval synagogue, city walls with panoramic views. Farewell dinner at a local restaurant in Dubrovnik. Overnight: Hotel Sheraton in Mlini

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Wednesday August 29 (B) After breakfast, check out from the hotel

ACTIVITY LEVEL:

You need to be able to keep up with the group at all times. This includes walking up to two to three miles per day; sometimes on uneven terrain and cobblestones. While the average elevated temperature in this region in the second half of August is in the high 70s, it could rise considerably.

Tour Leader: Ariel Goldstein

Ariel Goldstein is the CEO of TIYUL. Studied tourism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has led tours throughout Israel, Europe, the Persian Gulf, Latin America, Africa, India, China and US for fifteen years. He speaks Spanish, English, Hebrew and Portuguese.

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