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Bianco Tours Flier YOUR BIANCO TOUR INCLUDES: Presented by: Round Trip Transportation Via deluxe highway motorcoach. Equipped with reclining seats, Bianco Tours overhead storage, & restroom for your comfort and convenience. Accommodations Tour date: • 1 Night in Lewisburg, PA • 4 Nights at the Red Jacket Beach Resort in Yarmouth, MA 2021 Date TBA • 1 Night in Auburn, NY Meals Included jkwm n • 5 Breakfasts & 5 Dinners PACE OF TOUR: Featuring • Guided tour of Cape Cod and Provincetown 7 Days / 6 Nights • Provincetown Museum • Atwood House Museum • Guided tour of Hyannis, Sandwich & Plymouth • Plymouth Plantation per p$ersoTn/doBuble oA ccupancy • Plymouth Rock • Pilgrim Hall Museum • Lobster Tales Cruise For reservations and information please contact: Tour price includes gratuities for above trip inclusions. Bianco Sales Dept. BIANCO TOUR DIRECTOR & DRIVER GRATUITIES ARE NOT INCLUDED. Escorted by a professional Bianco Tour Director Coffee & snacks served on the first morning (734) 946-7021 Alcoholic & non-alcoholic drinks & snacks served on return trip Bianco Tours does not own or operate any of the suppliers of services or accommodations for your trip. (734) 946-7021 As a result, it is not responsible for any negligent or willful act or failure to act of any such supplier or of any www.biancotours.com third party over whom Bianco Tours has no control. Day 1 to sail south but the treacherous waters along the Cape’s outer coast Our journey to New England begins with a snack and cup of hot coffee forced them to return to the tips safe harbor. We check into the Red served by a professional Bianco Tour Director. Massachusetts is poised for a Jacket Beach Resort in Yarmouth, MA this afternoon, our home for the year of national and international significance; the 400th anniversary of the next four nights. Perched on the waters of Nantucket Sound, a sweeping Mayflower voyage and the founding of the Plymouth Colony. The breath of private oceanfront beach awaits us. Dinner is included at the Provincetown and Plymouth 400th anniversaries will highlight the cultural resort this evening after some time to relax. contributions and American traditions that began with the interaction of the Day 3 Wampanoag and English peoples, a story that shaped the building of Breakfast is included this morning at the resort before departing for our America. A scenic drive will bing us to our home for the first night in first tour. A local guide will meet us at the resort. We will travel historic Lewisburg, PA. Upon arrival at our quaint hotel, we will have an included Route 6A, the Old King’s Highway , a scenic byway winding through dinner. Be sure to get some rest as we are making our way to Cape Cod centuries of Cape Cod history. It winds past hundreds of historic tomorrow. structures which characterize its dearly development. View a windmill Day 2 and a Cape Cod Lighthouse. Visit the Cape Cod National Seashore After an included breakfast this morning, we continue our journey to Visitor’s Center . Hear the Pilgrim’s stories of Corn Hill, First Encounter Yarmouth, MA; making rest and lunch stops en route for our comfort and Beach, Pilgrim Spring and Pond and their First Landing site. Sand dunes convenience. Welcome to Massachusetts, the “Bay State” and the sandy and the ocean surround us as we approach “Land’s End” - shores of Cape Cod. In early November 1620, after two grueling months at Pronvincetown . We are now at the extreme tip of Cape Cod. Formerly sea, the Mayflower approached the tip of Cape Cod. For two days they tried known as the “Province Lands” the Pilgrims landed here first before they P continued on back decided to settle across the Bay in Plymouth. The story started here in 1620 free time for lunch on our own on the waterfront. On our coach, the where the Pilgrims spent their first five weeks exploring Cape Cod. It was guide will conduct a tour of the area viewing historical sites like the here that they signed the Mayflower Compact… the catalyst for American Governor William Bradford Statue, Hedge House, Pilgrim Mother democracy. Lunch is on our own today in Provincetown before visiting the Statue, Coles Hill, Massasoit Statue, Immigrant Monument, United Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum . This 255 foot tower that American Indian of New England Plaque, Pilgrim Maiden Statue, donimates the town is the tallest granite structure in the United States. The Howland House, Spooner House, 1820 Courthouse, Pilgrim Provincetown Musuem exhibits highlight the arrival of the Mayflower Sarcophagus and the Mayflower Society. Admission is included to the Pilgrims, the town’s rich maritime history and the building of the monument. Plymoth Plantation , the first permanent European settlement in There is also a re-creation of a 19th century sea captain’s parlor at home and Southern New England, It is the site of a living museum dedicated to his quarters at sea as well as a diorama of the Mayflower Compact being recreating 17th century life ways in the New World with the signed aboard the Mayflower in Provincetown Harbor. This afternoon, we Wampanoag’s. Step back in time as costumed interpreters protray travel to the “south side” of the Cape to the seaside village of Chatham . Here residents of the colony. A traditional turkey dinner with all the fixings is we will view the Chatham Light , which has been a lifesaving beacon for included at the Plantation. During dinner we will enjoy a “Dress A sailors throughout the Cape’s history. Chatham’s location at the Cape’s Pilgrim” demonstration. “elbow” make it very vulnerable to winter storms and our guide will point out Day 5 the Chatham Break and the dramatic changes to the shoreline that have After our included breakfast at the resort, we will once again join a occurred, thanks to Mother Nature. Admission is included to visit the Atwood local guide and travel to Plymouth. Photo stops will be made at House Musuem . Built in the 1750’s by Joseph Atwood, a Chatham Sea Plymouth Rock , the traditional site of dismebarkation of the Pilgrims Captain, the “Old House” was occupied for five generations. The museum is a and the Mayflower II, a reproduction of the ship that brought the vibrant institution showcasing eleven galleries and a working Fresnel lantern Pilgrims to the New World. We’ll visit Pilgrim Hall Museum . Built in from one of the historic Chatham Twin Lights. Dinner is included this 1824, this gallery museum is the nations oldest continuously operating evening at a locally popular restaurant. public museum. Pilgrim Hall houses and unmatched collection of Day 4 Pilgrim possessions. We will have time for lunch on our own here in After another included breakfast this morning, we will again depart with a Plymouth. This afternoon, we board a Lobster Tales Cruise to learn local guide for a full day of touring the first Cape Towns, Hyannis and about the many creatures that live-in Plymouth Harbor. Experience a Sandwich . All Cape Cod towns were founded by people unhappy with the “hands on”approach to see how lobsters are harvested from their natural Boston-area Puritans. The clan of Wampanoag Indians that lived here sold environment. The naturalist will teach us about the food from the the land title. Over the next 20 years settlers spread north and south from oceans as the Wampanoags taught the Pilgrims. We return to our resort Plymouth. The first parts of Cape Cod to be settled were the bay-side this afternoon. Dinner will be on our own at one of the restaurants near sections of Sandwich, Barnstable and Yarmouth (all incorporated in 1639), the hotel. Our guide will offer suggestions for the group. along an old Indian trail that is now Route 6A. Most of the newcomers Day 6 hunted, farmed and fished. Salt hay from the marshes was used to feed the We depart this morning after our included breakfast and begin our cattle and roof houses. Travel through Sandwich - the oldest town in Cape journey toward home overnighting in the Finger Lakes region of New Cod. Hear stories of the Puritans, Quakers, Shawme, Dexter Grist Mill, York, known for its distinctive wines and beautiful scenery. Dinner is Hoxie House and the First Church of Christ. Travel a short distance to included this evening at a lovely restaurant on the edge of Owasco Lake, America’s Hometown - Plymouth . Home of our Pilgrim Fathers and one of one of the most beautiful bodies of water in the Finger Lakes region. the country’s first settlements. A picture stop will be made at the Forefather’s Day 7 Monument, the largest solid granite monument in the United States. She After breakfast on our own this morning, we will complete our journey stands facing the harbor, welcoming those who come by water. There will be home making rest and meal stops en route for comfort and convenience. IT'S EASY TO JOIN A BIANCO TOUR! Reservations for ___ participants. Just complete the form below and include a $20.00 deposit per person to hold your reservations. Full payment is due 45 days prior to departure. A charge may be levied on all cancellations made within 45 days of departure. No refunds within 7 days of departure. Please make checks payable to: Bianco Tours • 12555 Universal Dr. • Taylor, MI 48180. 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