Cultural Landscapes of Southern : The Côte D’Azur, Provence & the Cévennes

2 JUN – 17 JUN 2015 Code: 21514

Tour Leaders Kenneth W. Park

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Explore the sparkling Côte d'Azur, historic Provence and the little-known mountainous Cévennes - visiting picturesque ports & villages, villas, castles and numerous artists' houses & art galleries.

Overview Tour Highlights

Led by Kenneth W. Park, this tour offers a feast of splendid art galleries, great monuments and natural landscapes of Southern France. Journey from the sparkling Côte d'Azur, through Provence, the Luberon Ranges and to the mountainous area of the Cévennes, and explore one of the world's most important examples of interactions between magnificent landscapes and the human creative spirit. Enjoy a range of museums devoted to major modernist artists including Matisse, Picasso, Léger, Miró, Marc Chagall and Cocteau. Visit Cézanne's Atelier, Renoir's home and studio, and Château Grimaldi which served as Picasso's studio in 1946. Visit the beautiful chapels painted by Matisse in Vence and in Villefranche-sur-Mer. See the paintings, sculpture and furniture of the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, a mansion set in extensive gardens; and the nearby Villa Grecque Kérylos, a luxurious re-creation of an ancient Grecian dwelling, complete with wall decorations and furniture. By special appointment visit Villa Santo Sospir decorated with frescoes by Jean Cocteau in 1950. Enjoy an evening of classical music under the shade of Frances' oldest magnolia tree at the Château de Brantes. In the foothills of the Luberon tour the 12th-century Abbey Notre-Dame de Sénanque and view the settlement of stone huts in the Village des Bories. Explore Roman , the Pont du Gard and the huge medieval Papal Palace, Avignon. Observe colourful wildflowers in the UNESCO listed Cévennes National Park Cruise through the precipitous Tarn Gorges - a limestone canyon carved by the Tarn River and dotted with medieval castles. Savour haute cuisine at establishments such as Mauro Colagreco's Restaurant Mirazur, perched above the Mediterranean at , and La Petite Maison de Cucuron with Michelin-star chef Eric Sapet in the Luberon Ranges. Stay in carefully chosen hotels including the lovely family hotel, Hotel des Gorges du Tarn in the mountain village of Florac.

16 DAYS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE

Overnight Nice (6 nights) • Aix-en-Provence (3 nights) • Avignon (3 nights) • Florac (3 nights)

Overview

Explore the sparkling Côte d'Azur, historic Provence and the Luberon Ranges, to the little-known mountainous Cévennes, visiting picturesque cities, ports and villages, great villas, castles and numerous artists' houses and art galleries. We'll examine interactions between artists, writers, architects and gardeners with the area's stunning urban, coastal, rural and mountain landscapes. From the late 18th century British and Russian aristocrats, French and American middle classes, were drawn to this warm healing climate, creating lush villas and gardens for an experience of 'eternal' France, far from busy, industrial Northern Europe. Artists followed, attracted by its brilliant sunlight: Monet, Renoir, Seurat, Matisse, Picasso, Dufy, Bonnard, Miró, Léger, Chagall and Jean Cocteau are a few whose studios, houses, and museums we'll explore. Highlights include Jean Cocteau's frescoes in the privately owned Villa Santo Sospir and small Saint-Pierre chapel of Villefranche-sur-Mer, Matisse's stunning Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence, and the studios of Renoir and Cézanne in Cagnes-sur-Mer and Aix-en-Provence. We'll explore great villas like Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Villa Grecque Kérylos, and Château de Brantes - where we'll enjoy a classical music concert under France's oldest magnolia tree. We'll dine at cafés where famous painters, literati and film stars met, and view the landscapes that inspired Paul Cézanne. In the scenic landscapes of the Luberon Range we visit the medieval Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame de Sénanque, famous for its lavender; and the Village des Bories consisting of over 20 dry-stone huts whose design dates from the Bronze Age. We'll experience Provence's rich Roman and medieval architectural heritage at Arles, Avignon and the Pont du Gard, and spend two days in the UNESCO listed Cévennes National Park, France's least developed wilderness. Here we follow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose Travels with a Donkey celebrated its awesome landscapes and distinctive local culture and take a boat through the dramatic Gorges du Tarn. Taste the flavours of Provençal France. The tour features 13 meals including two Michelin-star restaurants, Mirazur and La Petite de Maison de Cucuron; several Tables Distinguées and a selection of traditional local brasseries.

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Leaders Kenneth W. Park

Art consultant, curator, presenter, fund-raiser, writer, inveterate traveler & popular public lecturer across Australia, Kenneth has led over 40 ASA tours to Europe, the USA & Canada since 2003.

Kenneth W. Park is Curator of Collections, Wesley College Melbourne and is a consultant art curator, presenter, fund-raiser, tour leader and writer. Over the years Kenneth has been involved with many arts/cultural organizations and professional associations including the National Gallery of Victoria, National Trust, International Council of Museums, Museums Australia, American Association of Museums and many more. As a lecturer/tour leader, Kenneth makes well over 140 presentations annually for universities, museums, conferences and cultural organizations in Australia and abroad. During his career, he has lectured at every state art gallery in Australia. Kenneth's strong professional and personal interest and clear love of culture, art and architectural history is reflected through longstanding and regular lecturing and tour leading commitments with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), the City Club of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and the National Gallery of Victoria. An inveterate traveller who has visited well over one hundred countries, Kenneth enjoys the journey as much as the destination. Making at least ten overseas trips a year, he lives by the motto that 'life is a grand tour, make the most of it'. With tertiary studies in fine arts, museum studies, history and international relations and interests in travel, food, wine, arts, architecture and history, Kenneth is undeniably an expert on 'the good life'.

Kenneth joined ASA in 2004 and has led numerous ASA tours. He has great admiration for the passion and commitment of ASA Directors, Chris Wood and Kristen Hellstrom, and the ASA team, in developing and delivering inspiring programs that offer the very best in cultural travel. Kenneth thrives on exploring new destinations, however, he equally enjoys revisiting old familiar places, as with each new group he discovers different ways of looking and appreciating much loved cultural landmarks and treasures.

Combine this tour with

Islands Apart: Jersey, Guernsey, Herm, Alderney & Sark 21 MAY – 1 JUN 2015

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Itinerary The following itinerary describes a range of museums, gardens, restaurants, villas and châteaux which we plan to visit. Many are accessible to the public, but others require special permission which may only be confirmed closer to the tour's departure in 2015. The daily activities described in this itinerary may change or be rotated and/or modified in order to accommodate alterations in opening hours, flight schedules and confirmation of private visits. Participants will receive a final itinerary together with their tour documents prior to departure. Meals included in the tour price and are indicated in the itinerary where: B=breakfast, L=Lunch and D=evening meal.

Nice - 6 nights Day 1: Tuesday 2 June, Arrive Nice Welcome Apéritif in ‘La Rotonde’ & private tour, Hotel Negresco

Travelers taking the ASA ‘designated’ flights are scheduled to arrive at Nice airport in the early afternoon. Here you will be met by your private coach and transferred to the Westminster Hôtel. Note: if you are not arriving on the ASA ‘designated’ flight you will be required to make your own way to the hotel, or you may wish to contact ASA to arrange a private transfer.

Nice became an important English resort in the nineteenth century, not only because of its brilliant sunshine and sparkling landscapes, but because warm climates were believed to cure tuberculosis. The great seaside boulevard, the Promenade des Anglais, reflects this popularity. You will pass the impressive nineteenth-century architecture of the waterfront and its verdant parks filled with exotic vegetation on your journey from the airport.

In the late afternoon, we shall walk along the Promenade des Anglais to the Hotel Negresco, a famous Belle Époque hotel, which sets the theme of this tour, the interaction of luminaries of European twentieth-century culture with the extraordinary Côte d’Azur. This hotel has a ground-floor grande salle with a ceiling designed by Gustave Eiffel, builder of Paris’ tower. We will enjoy a short tour of the hotel’s wild, eclectic collection of art and exotica; tapestries, paintings, silk curtains and sparkling chandeliers, which hang from every wall and ceiling above rugs, porcelain, sculpture and antique furniture that lines each wall, kept shimmering and shiny by a large team of full-time restorers. Celebrities as diverse as Picasso, Salvador Dalî, Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve and Gina Lollobrigida frequented this incredible ‘watering hole’. After our visit, we shall enjoy an apéritif in the extraordinary La Rotonde restaurant which features brightly painted cabins of an eighteenth-century merry-go-round. (Overnight Nice)

Day 2: Wednesday 3 June, Nice – Menton – Cap Ferrat – Nice

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Salle des Mariages, Menton Jean Cocteau Museum, Menton Welcome Lunch at Restaurant Mirazur Villa Santo Sospir, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (exclusive private visit)

This morning we drive east along an awesome coastline where the pre- plunge almost sheer into the sea. Menton occupies a natural amphitheatre dominated by Mount Agel and the Gorbio and St. Agnes Heights. Ruined fortresses clinging to its surrounding cliffs testify to the town’s deep, turbulent history. Here we shall study the work of one of the coast’s greatest creators, the famous artist and film-maker Jean Cocteau.

Cocteau first came upon Menton in 1955 while vacationing at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. He fell in love with its high-cliffed coastal charms and began the next year, at the request of the mayor, to redecorate the town hall’s Salle des mariages with frescoes and furnishings all with a theme of ‘Love’.

Nearby we also visit the new Jean Cocteau Museum which includes 990 works by Cocteau. All of the artist’s key periods are represented, from the first self-portraits of the 1910s up to the “Mediterranean” period towards the end of his life. There are drawings, prints, paintings, ceramics, tapestries, jewellery, books and manuscripts and 172 photographs relating to Cocteau. There are also works by fellow artists Picasso, Modigliani, Di Chirico and others.

A welcome lunch will be served at the Restaurant Mirazur, which enjoys spectacular views of Menton’s old town and harbour. Michelin- star chef Mauro Colagreco excels in original Mediterranean-style dishes, using wild herbs, edible flowers and the freshest vegetables obtained from the restaurant’s garden.

In the afternoon we return to Nice via St Jean Cap Ferrat to visit the private Villa Santo Sospir, a charming home decorated by Jean Cocteau during his stay in 1950. The villa was at that time owned by Cocteau’s friend, Francine Weisweiller, who had asked him to stay in the Côte d’Azur. Cocteau made a lasting impression of the villa in 1950, taking his paintbrush to various walls around Ms Weisweiller’s home. Cocteau returned frequently to the villa to make films, paint and write up until his death in 1963. We will be able to tour both the house and the gardens. (Overnight Nice) BL

Day 3: Thursday 4 June, Nice – Biot – Cimiez – Nice Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot Worshop baking bread to local recipe in Biot Matisse Museum, Cimiez National Marc Chagall Biblical Message Museum, Cimiez

In Biot, we visit the magnificent Musée National Fernand Léger. When Fernand Léger died, his atelier at Gif-sur-Yvette was found to contain many works, some only partially finished and others with which the artist obviously did not wish to part. When his wife, Nadia Léger, decided to build a museum at Biot, she gathered works from the Gif-sur-Yvette atelier and presented them to the museum. In 1967 she donated this collection, which includes 348 works documenting every period and facet of the artists’ oeuvre, to the French Nation. The assembly of paintings, drawings, ceramics, tapestries and bronzes has been augmented by other, more recent acquisitions.

We then participate in a fascinating workshop in the village of Biot, where at the communal oven we shall learn to make local bread. You will create fougassoun (dessert) and pissaladière (special pizza). From the creation of the dough to baking it in the oven, we follow each step under the guidance of the baker, and then enjoy eating our masterpiece over lunch!

In the afternoon we drive to Cimiez, site of a small Roman city. It is more famous, however, for its museum devoted to France’s greatest modern painter, Henri Matisse, who lived in Nice from 1917 to his death in 1954. Paintings in the museum span his career, from the very early Still Life with Books (1890) to his Rococo Armchair (1947) and Blue Nude (1952). Another of the visual delights of this fertile region is Cimiez’ National Marc Chagall Biblical Message Museum where we shall explore works by the great Russian painter, born in 1887, who spent his life in France. (Overnight Nice) BL

Day 4: Friday 5 June, Nice – Cap d’Antibes – Antibes – Cagnes-sur-Mer – Nice Tour Cap d’Antibes Provençal Food Market, Cours Masséna, Antibes Château Grimaldi – Musée Picasso, Antibes Domaine des Collettes – Musée Renoir, Cagnes-sur-Mer Château-Musée Grimaldi, Haut-de-Cagnes

This morning we again take the coast road to visit the port town, Antibes, which attracted many writers, such as Graham Greene,

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Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald as well as artists like Picasso. We first tour the Cap d’Antibes, a beautiful peninsula with a winding road that reveals stunning views around every corner.

Our morning in Antibes includes a visit to the Antibes’ Provençal food market on the Cours Masséna and the Château Grimaldi, a pastiche of twelfth and sixteenth-century architecture, which houses the Musée Picasso. Picasso actually used the castle as his studio for a time in 1946. In addition to his paintings, there’s a fine collection of the master’s ceramics.

After lunch in Antibes we travel to Cagnes-sur-Mer, a medieval village and small picturesque fishing port where the house of the great Impressionist Auguste Renoir is situated. Renoir moved there in 1907 hoping to cure his arthritis. Many artists, including Derain, Cross, Modigliani and Soutine visited him here. The fully renovated and recently reopened Renoir museum displays 17 sculptures in plaster, 2 original paintings as well as the house’s original furniture.

Today’s program concludes with a short walking tour through Haut-de-Cagnes, an old town with a fine collection of fifteenth and seventeenth-century houses, where we visit the Château-Musée Grimaldi, a castle with an unusual assemblage of artifacts and collections, including a Museum of the Olive Tree and a museum devoted to the work of twentieth-century Mediterranean painters. (Overnight Nice) B

Day 5: Saturday 6 June, Nice – Saint-Paul de Vence – Vence – Nice The Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul de Vence Matisse Chapel, Vence Time at leisure in Nice

This morning we drive to Saint-Paul de Vence, built on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by ramparts overlooking the coast. Fortified in the sixteenth century, it remained beautifully intact and began to attract artists such as Russian painter Marc Chagall who moved here in 1966. A host of famous artists and writers were drawn to the beauty of the surrounding area and its exceptional light. Later it also became a favorite ‘hang-out’ of film directors and French and international stars such as Yves Montand and Simone Signoret.

Here we visit the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation, which hosts an exceptional collection of twentieth-century works. André Malraux, then Minister of Cultural Affairs, inaugurated the Foundation on July 28th 1964. It is a unique example of a private European art foundation. This architectural ensemble was entirely conceived and financed by the Parisian art dealers Aimé and Marguerite Maeght to display modern and contemporary art in all media. Painters and sculptors collaborated closely in the realization of the complex with Catalan architect Lluis Sert by creating works, many of them monumental, that were integrated into the building and its gardens: the Giacometti courtyard; the Miró labyrinth with sculptures and ceramics; mural mosaics by Chagall and Tal-Coat; a pool and stained glass window by Braque, and a Bury fountain. We shall enjoy its collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphic works by artists such as Bonnard, Braque, Calder, Chagall, Giacometti, Léger, and Miró.

After some time at leisure for lunch and to walk around the narrow and picturesque streets of Saint-Paul de Vence, we travel up into the hills northwest of Nice, across country studded with cypresses, olive trees, and pines to Vence, noted for its Chapelle du Rosaire, conceived and created by Henri Matisse. From 1943 to 1949, an ailing Matisse settled in Vence and employed a young nurse, Monique Bourgeois, who became his confidant and model. In 1946, the young woman entered the Dominicans and was ordained Sister Jacques-Marie and shortly after persuaded Matisse to design the chapel for her community. The result is a unique masterpiece, which Matisse worked on for four years (from 1948-1951). He elaborated the chapel’s general plan and all the details for its decoration, stained glass windows, ceramics, stalls, stoup, cult objects and priestly ornaments. For Matisse this work was “the fruit of [my] whole working life. In spite of all its imperfections [I] consider it as [my] masterpiece.”

We return to Nice where the remainder of the afternoon is at leisure. You may wish to visit one of France’s best provincial collections, the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain. This museum is dedicated to modernism and to contemporary exhibitions, especially those that explore the relationship between European and American modernist visual culture. The building itself was designed by architects Yves Bayard and Henri Vidal. (Overnight Nice) B

Day 6: Sunday 7 June, Nice – Villefranche-sur-Mer – Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat – Beaulieu-sur-Mer – Nice Chapelle Saint-Pierre by Jean Cocteau, Villefranche-sur-Mer Villa Ephrussi, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat Villa Grecque Kérylos, Beaulieu-sur-Mer

This morning we drive out to Cap-Ferrat, a narrow peninsula extending far out to sea. Our first visit is to the Chapelle Saint-Pierre, painted by Jean Cocteau at Villefranche. The ornamentation of the Chapelle Saint-Pierre, a jewel of the modern symbolist art, was a dream cherished for a long time by Cocteau that he finally realized in 1957. He superintended the ceramicists and stonecutters who worked on his project. The chapel evinces a simple, humble fervor reminiscent of small Romanesque churches. It simultaneously represents St. Peter’s life, the village dear to Cocteau’s childhood, and the artist’s friendship for the fishermen to whom the chapel was

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dedicated.

The road to Cap-Ferrat offers wonderful views of the Mediterranean. The Cap itself was one of the most fashionable resorts of the twentieth century and is associated with such luminaries and eccentrics as Somerset Maughan, who lived in the Villa Mauresque, and Léopold II of the Belgians, who established the world’s most important private botanical gardens there. In 1926, Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild chose a site here for her enormous villa and garden – Villa Île de France. The eclecticism of her garden, named after the famous ship and tended during her residence by gardeners in sailors’ uniforms, reflects the syncretic mix of styles that made the Riviera an important avant-garde centre in the early twentieth century. We shall take a guided tour of the villa’s first floor that includes terracotta sculptures by Clodion, a Meissen China Room and a Tapestry Room whose furniture by Jacob is upholstered with Beauvais tapestries. We shall then tour the villa’s seven exquisite gardens which include patios, waterfalls, ponds, floral borders, shady walks and rare species of trees. The garden ensemble comprises Florentine, Spanish, formal French and exotic gardens, as well as rose and rock gardens.

After lunch in the villa’s tearoom, we visit the Grecian Villa Kérylos, one of the most extraordinary sites on the . It was built in the early 1900s, in the Belle Époque era, and is a unique and extremely luxurious re-creation of an ancient Grecian dwelling, complete with wall decorations and furniture. It was built as the tribute to Greek civilization by two great Hellenophiles, Théodore Reinach, an archaeologist and patron of the arts, and the architect Emmanuel Pontremoli who based the design on the remains of noble houses from the 2nd century BC on the Island of Delos. Everything inside, from the arrangement of rooms to the details of the décor, was designed to recreate the atmosphere of a luxurious Grecian villa. From the garden around the villa there are fine views of the Cap-Ferrat peninsula, dotted with magnificent mansions. The garden contains a pleasing mixture of typically Greek plants: olive trees and vines, pomegranate and carob trees, acanthus and myrtle, oleanders and , pine and cypress trees, palm trees and papyrus which all help create a Grecian look and feel in the bright Mediterranean sunshine. We return to Nice where the evening will be at leisure. (Overnight Nice) BL

Aix-en-Provence - 3 nights Day 7: Monday 8 June, Nice – Saint-Tropez – Aix-en-Provence Walking tour of Saint-Tropez Musée de l’Annonciade, Saint-Tropez Dinner at Brasserie Les Deux Garçons, Aix-en-Provence

This morning we drive along the Mediterranean coast to Saint-Tropez. We begin the day with a walking tour of the historic core of Saint-Tropez, the districts of La Glaye and La Ponche. These two adjacent areas constitute the remains of the original fishing village, which attracted artists, filmmakers and other luminaries. The Tour Portalet and the Tour Vieille, both remnants of the town’s fifteenth- century defenses, flank the Anse de la Glaye, a lovely sheltered cove. Here the Coastal Pathway winds between the azure sea and pastel houses with shuttered windows. La Glaye, one of the oldest areas of Saint-Tropez, was settled by Genoese shipbuilders who dominated this part of the Mediterranean from the later Middle Ages. Its name means ‘church’ in a Genoese dialect; the town hall now occupies the place where Saint-Tropez’s first church once stood. West of the Tour Vieille, La Ponche is a tiny fishing port which was the site of a small fish salting industry. We shall walk the narrow lanes of these districts to gain a vivid feel for shape and style of the old town.

Following time at leisure for lunch, we visit Saint-Tropez’ art museum, the brilliant Musée de l’Annonciade that features renowned French artists who worked between 1890 and 1950. These include: Bonnard; Braque; André Derain; Dufy; Auguste Maillol; Albert Marquet; Henri Matisse; Georges Rouault; Georges Seurat; Paul Signac; Maurice Utrillo; Vlaminck; Vuillard; Maurice Denis; Suzanne Valaton, and the Spanish Surrealist Francis Picabia. Saint-Tropez owes its great collection, and its popularity among painters around 1900, to Paul Signac, the Pointillist who became entranced by the town and its surrounding district in 1892. He established an atelier here called ‘La Hune’ and invited many artists such as Matisse, Marquet and Derain to visit him. Saint-Tropez thereby came a veritable colony for the School of Paris.

Mid-afternoon we depart St Tropez for Aix-en-Provence. Our dinner tonight will be in a restaurant famous for its literary associations, the Brasserie Les Deux Garçons, where Zola, Sartre, Jean Cocteau and even Winston Churchill ate, along with Picasso, actors Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo. (Overnight Aix-en-Provence) BD

Day 8: Tuesday 9 June, Aix-en-Provence – Cucuron – Aix-en-Provence Orientation walk of Aix-en-Provence Musée Granet and the “From Cézanne to Giacometti”, Aix-en-Provence Lunch at Restaurant La Petite Maison de Cucuron Mont Sainte-Victoire Scenic Drive Atelier Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence

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Following a short orientation walk of Aix-en-Provence we visit the Granet Museum which, after a four year renovation, now displays ‘From Cézanne to Giacometti’, an exceptional donation of important paintings, graphical works and sculptures by major artists of the seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Late morning we drive to the well-preserved medieval village of Cucuron in the heart of the Luberon National Park, home to La Petite Maison de Cucuron. We shall eat at this delightful restaurant run by Michelin-star Chef Eric Sapet. Located on the central square in the shade of hundred-year old plane trees, the Petite Maison, one of the finest restaurants in Provence, serves traditional Provençal dishes made with fresh market produce.

After lunch we take a scenic drive round the base of Mont Sainte-Victoire, the high outcrop that fascinated Paul Cézanne and appears in so many of his landscapes. Our journey takes us past several small villages like Le Tholonet, where Cézanne often came to paint.

We end the day with a visit to the Atelier Cézanne, the base from which this most careful and methodical of artists made excursions to paint the countryside. In bad weather he painted his famous still lifes in the atelier. The museum still has many of the objects Cézanne collected and used as subjects for these still lifes: a table, a short ladder, a high easel, a potbellied stove, a sofa, a few chairs. The items seen here were the only furniture present in the artist’s closed world. A few locally decorated vases, a ginger jar and an olive pot, a fruit bowl, a plate, a glass, a bottle of rum, three skulls, and a little plaster cupid by Francois Duquesnoy are among the smaller objects made so famous in his works that are in the atelier’s collection. (Overnight Aix-en-Provence) BL

Day 9: Wednesday 10 June, Aix-en-Provence – Marseilles – L’Estaque – Aix-en-Provence The Old Port area of Marseilles Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles L’Estaque and its painters

This morning we journey south to Marseilles and take a walk through the Old Port area with a local guide. Dominated on one side by the old town, “Le Panier” and on the other by the church of Nôtre Dame de la Garde, our walk reveals the cities’ ancient Greek and Roman origins. Nearby we also visit the recently renovated Musée des Beaux Arts in the 19th-century Palais Longchamp where the highlight is a fine collection of nineteenth century French art including works by Daubigny, Courbet, Corot and Millet.

Mid-afternoon we visit the fishing village of L’Estaque. Now a suburb of Marseille, for over a half-a century the village attracted a stream of great artists including Cézanne, Renoir, Dufy and Braque. Many artists painted village scenes, the road leading to the village, and the view of the bay from the village.

Cézanne first discovered L’Estaque in 1864, returned soon afterwards to avoid being conscripted to fight in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and subsequently went back again and again, always staying at a house (marked today with a plaque) next to the church on the Place Malterre. He painted many views of the water from his room, showing the changing seasons, the shifting light of day, and the changes in the village itself over time

In early 1882 Cézanne received a visit from Renoir. Art historians believe they set up their easels side-by-side to produce respectively, Viaduct at L’Estaque and Rocky Crags at L’Estaque (Cézanne was positioned slightly to the right or Renoir). The results speak volumes about their dramatically contrasting visions.

In the winter of 1906-1907, a couple of months after Cézanne died, Braque went to L’Estaque, and his studies are strongly inspired by his predecessor. In the summer of 1908, he shared a studio there with Dufy. Along with Othon Friesz, who also visited the town, they helped launched the Fauvism movement. (Overnight Aix-en-Provence) B

Avignon - 3 nights Day 10: Thursday 11 June, Aix-en-Provence – Lourmarin – Ménerbes – Gordes – Avignon Lourmarin Lunch at Restaurant La Bastide de Marie, Ménerbes Le Village des Bories, Gordes Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque

This morning we cross the Luberon mountain range to the picturesque village of Lourmarin, one of the most beautiful villages of France. It has a castle, winding streets fine views and, most importantly, was a haunt of famous writers. Nobel Prize winner, Albert Camus, lived and wrote in Lourmarin, as did novelist and biographer Henri Bosco. Both men are buried in the cemetery. We will follow their footsteps through this charming village.

Lunch will be just outside of Ménerbes, a walled village. Peter Mayle (who now lives in Lourmarin) described his time here in A Year in

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Provence, which made the place incredibly popular with the British. The restaurant, La Bastide de Marie, is situated in the vineyards of the Luberon Valley.

We continue our journey through the Petit Luberon (the name given to the western end of the range) and drive to Gordes and visit the Village des Bories – a settlement made from a cluster of primitive dry stone huts (bories) – and the lovely medieval Abbey of Sénanque. Founded in 1148 by Cistercian monks from the nearby Mazan Abbey, Sénanque constitutes a wonderful, well-preserved Romanesque abbey church, cloister, dormitory and chapter house. A refectory was added in the seventeeth century when some minimal rebuilding was undertaken.

A community of Cistercian monks who grow lavender and tend honeybees now occupies the abbey. Lavandula augustifolia (lavender) was also known as Lavandula officinalis, referring to its medicinal properties. Its flowers and leaves are used as herbal medicine, either in the form of lavender oil or as an herbal tea. Its flowers are also used as a culinary herb, most often as part of the French herb blend called herbes de Provence. After touring the abbey we shall continue our journey east to Avignon, arriving in the late afternoon. (Overnight Avignon) BL

Day 11: Friday 12 June, Avignon – Sorgues – Avignon Papal Palace, Avignon Pont Saint-Bénezet, Avignon Afternoon at leisure in Avignon Château de Brantes, Sorgues: Garden tour, Provençal dinner and classical music concert

Avignon, one of Europe’s most interesting and beautiful medieval cities, is sited majestically on the banks of the Rhône. Its historical importance and its great monuments stem from its status as a papal city between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries; it reverted to the French crown in 1761.

This morning we will visit the castle that served as a palace fortress for the seven popes whose sojourn in France between 1309 and 1377 came to be called by opponents ‘the Babylonian Captivity’. For the following 400 years it was the residence of papal legates. This massive complex has some rooms that are masterpieces in their own right, such as the grand hall, the great kitchen, with its single huge chimney spanning the whole interior, and the papal bedroom with its painted walls depicting a great vine set against a blue background.

Near the Papal Palace is the Pont Saint-Bénezet, the famous bridge described in the popular children’s song, Sur le pont d’Avignon. Bridges were vital to medieval pilgrimage and Saint-Bénezet, who built the bridge between 1177 and 1185, founded a company of bridge-builders to serve this purpose. The original 900-metre-long wooden structure was repaired and reconstructed – in stone – many times before half the bridge collapsed into the Rhône in the mid-1600s.

Following an afternoon at leisure we make our way to the Château de Brantes, located just outside the village of Sorgues, for a special evening tour and reception. The garden, which has the oldest magnolia tree in France (1780), was designed by the Danish landscape architect Mogens Tvede in 1956. The château, listed as a historic monument in 1987, is surrounded by an extensive plane-tree wood, and features a series of basins through which flows the river Sorgues. After a guided tour through the park and garden, we enjoy an al fresco Provençal buffet dinner, followed by delightful classical music concert given under the magnolia tree by a professional harpist and flautist. (Overnight Avignon) BD

Day 12: Saturday 13 June, Avignon – Arles – Baux-de-Provence – Saint-Rémy-de-Provence – Avignon Museum of Antiquities (Musée de l’Arles Antique), Arles Saint-Trophime and its cloister, Arles Theatre and Amphitheatre, Arles Scenic tour of the Alpilles Region Monastery Saint-Paul de Mausole, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Today we travel a short distance to visit Arles. The Dutch painter left Paris for this city in 1888. During his stay in Arles and nearby Saint-Rémy-de-Provence he painted some of his most celebrated works, including Starry Night, The Bridge at Arles, Sunflowers, and L’Arlésienne. He lived for a time with Gauguin in a small house which features in a number of his paintings.

We shall explore Arles’ superb Roman and medieval heritage. Provence takes its name from the fact that it was the oldest ‘province’ (provincia) of the Roman Empire outside the Italic peninsula. Arelate (now Arles), a major Roman city, was built to protect the vital estuary of the Rhône. This colonia was given a typical gridded street plan that can still be traced in the centre of the city. It had an important amphitheatre, which in the Middle Ages became a castle but is now used for bullfights, and a theatre, now used for festivals. Arelate was a major centre of early Christianity and produced a number of very important martyrs who were buried in its great cemetery, Alyscamps. Among these was Saint-Trophime, whose Romanesque basilica has one of the finest porticoes in Provence, with

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a porch modeled on a Roman triumphal arch.

We also visit the splendid Musée de l’Arles Antique. Inaugurated in 1995 the museum features a wonderful head of Caesar and a 31m long Roman boat which was discovered beneath the Rhône in 2011.

On our way back to Avignon we make a scenic detour through the Alpilles region past the ruined château and hill-top town of Les Baux-de-Provence, which stands on an arid rocky spur plunging abruptly to steep ravines on either side.

We also make a short visit to the old town of Saint-Rémy to visit St Paul de Mausole Monastery, a Romanesque monastery taking its name from a nearby Roman mausoleum. The monastery became an asylum, in which Van Gogh resided during his periods of madness, including that in which he cut off his ear! The institution still functions as a psychiatric hospital, but also as a museum. From the top of a set of stairs you can see the wheat field that contemplated and painted during his year of confinement in its men’s pavilion. One room has an exhibit telling the history of the Saint Paul Mental Hospital and another explains psychiatry in the nineteenth century. There is also an exact reproduction of the room where Van Gogh was confined. (Overnight Avignon) B

Florac - 3 nights Day 13: Sunday 14 June, Avignon – Pont du Gard – Uzès – Florac Pont du Gard Medieval village of Uzès & time at leisure

We begin today with a visit to the Pont du Gard, one of the best preserved of all Roman aqueducts. Its survival testifies to the building skill of the Romans, for the massive blocks of which it is fabricated have remained in place despite the fact it is a dry stone construction (without mortar or cement).

Our journey continues 15kms north-west of Avignon to the pretty village of Uzès. We shall enjoy a light lunch at Les Terroirs located on Place aux Herbes. The restaurant also functions as a local produce shop specializing in produits du terroirs (regional products and specialties) where you can find creamy goat cheese, garlic olives, fragrant herbs, pots of thyme-flavoured honey, bread and even small jars of snail and shallot spread!

Following some time at leisure to explore this village, we drive to our friendly family hotel in the picturesque village of Florac at the very centre of the Cévennes National Park, where we shall stay for the next three nights. We dine in the hotel restaurant L’Adonis, whose owner and chef Martial Paulet will serve dishes of the best local seasonal produce. The hotel is situated on the escarpments of the Causse Méjean close to the awesome Gorges du Tarn, Mont Lozère et du Mont Aigoual. Robert-Louis Stevenson became enamored of this awesome region and made it the setting for his Travels with a Donkey. (Overnight Florac) BLD

Day 14: Monday 15 June, Florac – Mont Lozère – Finiels – Pont de Montvert - Florac Orientation walk in Florac Mont Lozère scenic drive Pont de Montvert

We spend the next two days exploring the Cévennes National Park in the company of local expert mountain guide Anne Nourry, Vice- President of the Association Sur Le Chemin de Robert Louis Stevenson. The Cévennes, now a UNESCO-listed National Park, was and still is one of the wildest areas of France, with mountains and deep gorges. Ninenteenth-century travellers like Robert Louis Stevenson visited isolated villages that seemed locked in the past, with a tradition-bound, conservative culture. Many peasants of the Cévennes, like much of the population of southern France, had converted to Protestantism in the sixteenth century. When Louis XIV revoked the Henry IV’s Edict of Nantes (1685), which had assured Protestants the right of free worship, the Cévenne Huguenot Camisards revolted (1704-1712); their revolt is called the Camisard Revolt. When Stevenson trekked through the area, Protestantism was again tolerated, but the deeply conservative people of each Cévenne village adhered universally either to the Protestant or Catholic cause. Intermarriage between Catholics and Protestants was strictly forbidden and offenders would be cast out of both villages. Stevenson, a Scot, was himself a Protestant, and both the geography of the Cévennes with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, and the history of religious strife that lay over the land, were familiar to him.

Today’s program will combine coach touring with easy rambles through the countryside and to small, medieval villages. We shall be able to imagine the area as Robert-Louis Stevenson saw it, with its wilderness scenery of rugged escarpments, deep valleys, small streams and a host of pretty wildflowers.

After an orientation walk in Florac, we take a scenic drive to the summit of Mont Lozère which is the highest peak in the Cévennes National Park. It offers some stunning natural scenery and is covered by coniferous plantations and ‘broom’ scrub moorland. A short walk will enable us to view the Pic de Finiels which rises at 1699m.

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The distinct geological zones that make up the Cévennes National Park sustain different types of landscape, which have all been shaped by human activity. Mont Lozère is a granite massif scattered with typical reliefs called felsenmeer (block fields). Water is omnipresent in springs, peat bogs and rivers. The bare crests are summer pastures for great flocks of sheep. Mont Lozère bears the signs of ancient human occupation: menhirs, Gallo-Roman vestiges, etc.

Following our lunch in the small village of Finiels, we drive to the Pont de Montvert (870m altitude), located at the base of the south- facing slopes of Mont Lozère. Le Pont de Montvert is a pretty granite village that is named for its hump-backed bridge (en dos d’âne) that spans in a single arch the swift-flowing Tarn. The bridge is guarded by a defensive tower at the village end, now with a less bellicose function: it holds the village clock. Medieval in aspect, the bridge and tower date to the seventeeth century. The bridge is well known as one of the places that Robert Louis Stevenson stopped during his famous Travels with a Donkey and now forms one of the stopping points along the popular trail that follows his original route. (Overnight Florac) BLD

Day 15: Tuesday 16 June, Florac – Gorges du Tarn – Gorges de la Jonte – Florac Boat excursion, Gorges du Tarn Belvédère des Vautours (Vulture Lookout), Gorges de la Jonte Farewell Evening Meal

This morning we focus on the great Gorges du Tarn, an impressive canyon cut by the Tarn through the harsh limestone plateaux (causses) south of the . We shall drive along the gorges and then take a boat excursion down the Tarn as it winds through the most spectacular section of the valley. Starting from La Malène, we board small flat-bottomed boats and make our way down the river in the crisp morning light through Les Détroits, the most beautiful and narrowest section of the canyon, between towering vertical cliffs of up to 400 metres, and end at the Cirque des Baumes (baume meaning cave), where the gorge widens forming a magnificent amphitheatre.

Following a picnic lunch we travel to the western edge of the park, where the Gorges du Tarn meets the Gorges de la Jonte. Here we visit the Belvédère des Vautours, an interpretive centre and viewing point for the many vultures that nest in the gorge, mostly Griffon Vultures, but now also Black Vulture. With the aid of national park officers, we may view their nests, and watch individuals and groups perched on the dramatic gorge walls. Two decades or so ago these giant airborne scavengers were almost extinct in the Cévennes. Now, thanks to a successful reintroduction program, some 75 pairs breed in the national park. Following a majestic aerial ballet performed by 30 or so vultures we return to our hotel and enjoy a farewell meal together. (Overnight Florac) BLD

Day 16: Wednesday 17 June, Florac – Nîmes TGV Station Dinosaur footprints, St-Laurent-de-Trèves Corniche des Cévennes

This morning we drive out of the Cévennes National Park. Our journey takes us past the little hamlet of St-Laurent-de-Trèves, situated on a rocky outcrop with magnificent views. Dinosaur footprints have been discovered here, dating back 200,000 years when the region was a limestone swamp. A short walk around the site reveals a number of footprints, which are amazingly clear. From here we continue our journey south along the scenic Corniche des Cévennes, past the village of Saint-Jean-du-Gard and on to Nîmes’ TGV station, where you will be able to take a train to your airport or next French destination. B

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Accommodation 16 Days in Southern France

All hotels are rated 3 to 4-star and are comfortable and conveniently situated, all rooms have shower or bath and w.c. Single rooms may be requested – and are subject to availability and payment of the single supplement. Further information on hotels will be provided in the 'Tour Hotel List' given to tour members prior to their departure.

Nice (6 nights): 4-star Westminster Hôtel - in the Belle Epoque architectural style located on the prestigious Promenade des Anglais seafront, just a few steps from the city centre and the historic streets of the old town. Accommodation is provided in rooms with a seaview over the Mediterranean and the bay of Nice. www.westminster-nice.com Aix-en-Provence (3 nights): 4-star Grand Hotel Roi René - located in the heart of the city, a short stroll from the famous Cours Mirabeau and the old town. www.accorhotels.com Avignon (3 nights): 3-star Hotel Mercure Cité des Papes - located on the main square Place de l'Horloge, and adjacent to the Papal Palace. The vibrant centre of the old city with its theatres and numerous cafés are all within easy walking distance. www.mercure.com Florac (3 nights): 3-star Hotel des Gorges du Tarn - is a charming family-run hotel set in the heart of the Cévennes National Park, in the picturesque village of Florac. The hotel restaurant L'Adonis serves creative seasonal menus with locally sourced produce such as duck in cherry liqueur and local cheese with chestnut honey. www.hotel-gorgesdutarn.com Note: due to mountainous terrain, internet service in this area can be intermittent.

Note: hotels are subject to change, in which case a hotel of similar standard will be provided.

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Tour Map

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Tour Price & Inclusions AUD $7920.00 Land Content Only - Early Bird Special: Book before 30 Sept 2014

AUD $8120.00 Land Content Only

AUD $1550.00 Single Supplement

For competitive Economy, Business or First Class airfares and/or group airfares please contact ASA for further information.

Tour Price (Land Content Only) includes:

Accommodation in twin-share rooms with private facilities in 3 and 4-star hotels Breakfast daily, lunches and evening meals indicated in the tour itinerary, where: B=breakfast, L=lunch & D=evening meal Drinks at welcome and farewell meals. Other meals may not have drinks included. Transportation by air-conditioned coach Airport-hotel transfer on arrival if travelling on the ASA 'designated' flight Porterage of one piece of luggage per person at hotels (not at airports) Lecture and site-visit program Tour handbook Entrance fees Use of audio headsets during site visits Tips for the coach driver, local guides and restaurants for included meals.

Tour Price (Land Content Only) does not include

Airfare: Australia - Nice, Nîmes/Paris - Australia Personal spending money Airport-hotel transfers if not travelling on the ASA 'designated' flights Luggage in excess of 20 kg (44 lbs) Travel insurance

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Physical Endurance & Practical Information Physical Ratings

The number of flags is a guide to the degree of difficulty of ASA tours relative to each other (not to those of other tour companies). It is neither absolute nor literal. One flag is given to the least taxing tours, six to the most. Flags are allocated, above all, according to the amount of walking and standing each tour involves. Nevertheless all ASA tours require that participants have a good degree of fitness enabling 2-3 hours walking or 1-1.5 hours standing still on any given site visit or excursion. Many sites are accessed by climbing slopes or steps and have uneven terrain.

This 16-day tour involves:

Moderate walking and standing during site visits; walking tours may include steep slopes, flights of stairs, cobbled streets, visits to hill-top towns and uneven ground Traversing nature trails in the Cévennes National Park (Days 14 & 15) Moderate travel by air-conditioned coach, involving slow winding coastal and mountain roads Boat cruise in the Tarn Gorges, Cévennes National Park. Note: this tour includes the use of audio headsets which amplify the voice of your guide (despite noisy surroundings). This technology also allows you to move freely during site visits without missing any information.

Other considerations:

3 to 4-star hotels with three hotel changes You must be able to carry your own hand-luggage. Hotel porterage includes 1 piece of luggage per person. Assistance with luggage can be slow on occasion

It is important to remember that ASA programs are group tours, and slow walkers affect everyone in the group. As the group must move at the speed of the slowest member, the amount of time spent at a site may be reduced if group members cannot maintain a moderate walking pace. ASA tours should not present any problem for active people who can manage day-to-day walking and stair- climbing. However, if you have any doubts about your ability to manage on a program, please ask your ASA travel consultant whether this is a suitable tour for you.

Please note: it is a condition of travel that all participants agree to accept ASA’s directions in relation to their suitability to participate in activities undertaken on the tour, and that ASA retains the sole discretion to direct a tour participant to refrain from a particular activity on part of the tour. For further information please refer to the ASA Reservation Application Form.

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Practical Information

Prior to departure, tour members will receive practical notes which include information on visa requirements, health, photography, weather, clothing and what to pack, custom regulations, bank hours, currency regulations, electrical appliances and food. The Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade website has advice for travellers see: www.smartraveller.gov.au

Booking Conditions Make A Reservation

ASA RESERVATION APPLICATION FORM

Please complete the ASA RESERVATION APPLICATION and send it to Australians Studying Abroad together with your non-refundable deposit of AUD $500.00 per person payable to Australians Studying Abroad.

Passport Details

All participants must provide no later than 75 days prior to the commencement of the program a photocopy of the front page of their current passport.

Single Supplement

Payment of the single supplement will ensure accommodation in a single room throughout the tour. The number of single rooms available is extremely limited. People wishing to take the Single Supplement are therefore advised to book well in advance.

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Please complete one application, per person in block letters and sign. Parental signature is required for participants under 18 years of age. Please mail this form with the appropriate deposit to: P.O. Box 8285, ARMADALE, VICTORIA, 3143. On receipt of this Reservation Application and deposit, ASA will process your booking and if approved, send you a tour confirmation.

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You may be required to research dietary alternatives, as not all Itinerary when choosing your tour. destinations may be able to offer suitable food substitutes. • If you are not likely to satisfy ASA’s Participation Criteria (see below), YES NO ASA, in its sole discretion, may reject your Reservation Application. 1. Do you have any food allergies or intolerances? • It is a condition of your tour that you agree to accept the directions If yes, please specify of ASA’s Tour Leaders in relation to your suitability to participate in activities planned on tour. • ASA reserves the right to cancel your participation on a tour if your behaviour is in ASA’s opinion causing undue distress or damage to any person or their property. 2. Have you ever had an anaphylactic reaction to anything? If yes, please specify • If your participation is discontinued during a tour, ASA will assist by arranging your onward travel (if required) at your own cost, but you will not be refunded for forfeited parts of the tour. • ASA tour groups are not accompanied by a medical practitioner. ASA recommends that you see your doctor for advice about Do you carry an epipen? your specific needs while overseas. You may also wish to contact a travel and vaccination clinic for advice. www.traveldoctor.com.au 3. Do you have any other allergies or reactions to anything, tel:1300 658 444; www.travelvax.com.au tel: 1300 360 164. including medical drugs? If yes, please specify • Travel insurers require you to declare all existing medical conditions. • Please carry a complete list of medications with you during the ASA tour. Include generic names of each medication (consult your local pharmacy for information). Existing Medical Conditions You alone are responsible for managing any existing medical conditions, your Please mark X in the YES or NO box to every question below and medication and any medical equipment that you may need when on your tour. provide details where necessary: Please plan for contingencies and take extra medication, dietary supplements and/or fully charged batteries for medical equipment if your health and safety Participation Criteria depends on these. You should take into consideration that power sources at To participate in an ASA tour, you must be reasonably fit, in good some destinations may be unavailable, inadequate, inconvenient or unreliable. health and able to participate in all activities without assistance from YES NO 1. Have you any significant medical conditions that may Tour Leaders or other tour members. If you require assistance, a fit impact your capacity to complete this tour? and able travel companion must undertake to accompany and assist If yes, please specify you with all tasks for the duration of the whole tour. The responsibility of the Tour Leader is to ensure that the larger group enjoys a relaxing and informative journey, and he or she cannot be relied upon to If yes, how will you manage this on tour? provide ongoing individual assistance to any one guest. YES NO 1. Can you walk and stand unassisted for at least 2-3 hours 2. Do you require some form of powered medical aid, a day in hot, humid conditions? such as a CPAP machine? 2. Can you walk unassisted on and over uneven surfaces? These machines may not be operable on certain international flights, modes of transport, in remote or other areas with inadequate or unreliable power 3. Can you climb at least 3 flights of stairs and/or walk up and sources without a fully charged independent long life battery or batteries. do wn steep slopes unassisted? 4. Can you walk at a steady pace and no less than 1km every Diabetics: You may be travelling and sightseeing for many hours at a time. 15 - 20 minutes unassisted? Insulin dependent diabetics must carry extra supplies of insulin (as this medication cannot be obtained in some destinations), regulators, 5. Can you organise, manage and carry your own luggage? applicators, storage and refrigeration equipment, as well as any necessary supplements. Accommodation may not provide refrigerators in rooms. 6. Can you follow and remember tour instructions and meet punctually at designated times and places? 3. Are you diabetic?

7. Can you administer your own medication? Are you insulin dependent?

8. Do you have impaired vision or hearing which may impact 4. Do you suffer from travel sickness? your capacity to participate on this tour? Remember to use an appropriate medication while on tour.

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Declaration I declare that: I have read and understood the ASA Tour Itinerary, Reservation Application and Booking Conditions. I am aware of ASA’s terms as relating to refunds, cancellations, responsibility and liability. I understand that ASA relies upon this declaration when considering this Application. I accept that there are inherent dangers and risks that may occur during any tour. I have made full and complete disclosure and have not knowingly withheld any medical information about myself from ASA. I have completed this Reservation Application honestly and accurately. I warrant that l am able to participate independently in all activities described by ASA in the itinerary without assistance from any person. I will advise ASA in writing if any aspect of my fitness and or health conditions change materially at any time before my departure date. I understand and accept that the itinerary, accommodation and lecturers scheduled for this tour may change. I agree and consent that ASA may give my personal information in this Reservation Application to tour service providers and relevant authorities as required by law, but for the purpose of making bookings with and engaging services provided for the tour. I understand that if l do not consent to the use of my personal information for this purpose, ASA will decline my Reservation Application. In consideration of ASA’s acceptance of my Reservation Application, I irrevocably release and indemnify ASA from all claims that I, or any other party, may have against ASA its employees, invitees, agents and contractors, however arising in respect of any loss, damage, injury, death or expense incurred in the course of travelling to, on and from any tour. I understand and acknowledge that this Release and Indemnity applies with respect to: 1. Every general risk to which I or my personal belongings may be exposed in the course of travelling to, on or from any ASA tour 2. Every special risk, in particular medical risks, to which I may be exposed in the course of travelling to, on or from any ASA tour arising from, including, but not limited to: a. intermittent power cycles and/or the temporary or permanent loss of power (beware CPAP or any other medical machine users); b. dietary, food or other allergies (ASA cannot guarantee that traces of items to which you are allergic are not present in food or drink you are served, medication you are administered or other substances with which you may come into contact); c. any event or situation that may compromise the administration of necessary medication or my health, safety and wellbeing generally. 3. All claims arising as a result of my or ASA’s cancellation or termination of my continued participation on a tour for whatever reason (refund conditions in ASA’s Booking Conditions excepted). Limitation of Liability ASA is not a carrier, event or tourist attraction host, accommodation or dining service provider. All bookings made and tickets or coupons issued by ASA for transport, event, accommodation, dining and the like are issued as an agent for various service providers and are subject to the terms and conditions and limitations of liability imposed by each service provider. ASA is not responsible for their products or services. If a service provider does not deliver the product or service for which you have contracted, your remedy lies with the service provider, not ASA. ASA will not be liable for any claim (eg. sickness, injury, death, damage or loss) arising from any change, delay, detention, breakdown, cancellation, failure, accident, act, omission or negligence of any such service provider however caused (contingencies). You must take out adequate travel insurance against such contingencies. ASA’s liability in respect of any tour will be limited to the refund of amounts received from you less all non-refundable costs and charges and the costs of any substituted event or alternate services provided. The terms and conditions of the relevant service provider from time to time comprise the sole agreement between you and that service provider. ASA reserves the sole discretion to cancel any tour or to modify itineraries in any way it considers appropriate. Tour costs may be revised, subject to unexpected price increases or exchange rate fluctuations. Booking Conditions DEPOSITS UNUSED PORTIONS OF THE TOUR A deposit of $500.00 AUD per person is required to reserve a We regret that refunds will not be given for any unused portions of the tour, such as place on an ASA tour. meals, entry fees, accommodation, flights or transfers.

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