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Discover Sicily: Heart of the Mediterranean LAND TOUR Palermo • Agrigento • Siracusa • Taormina • Rome $ 15 days—Land Tour only—from 2895 16 days—including international airfare $ ITINERARY from Mobile, Alabama—from 4445 Additional departure cities are available April 25, 2015

Improve your value with these optional extensions: PRE-TRIP OPTION: 5 NIGHTS IN AMALFI COAST, ITALY Amalfi Coast, Italy: 5 nights pre-trip from $995 DAY DESTINATION/HOTEL Malta: 6 nights post-trip from $995 1 Fly U.S. • Palermo, Sicily (To Rome) Italy 2-4 Palermo Grand Hotel Wagner Tyrrhenian Sea (Superior First Class) or similar Monreale Palermo Reggio INCLUDED TOUR: Monreale & Palermo Cefalu Taormina OPTIONAL TOUR: Cefalu Corleone Mt. Etna 5-6 Agrigento Sicily Dioscuri Bay Palace or similar Catania Agrigento INCLUDED TOUR: Valley of the Temples 7-9 Siracusa Siracusa OPTIONAL EXTENSION Grand Hotel Ortigia (First Class) or similar Rome Italy Modica Amalfi Coast Arrival/ INCLUDED TOUR: Siracusa (Pre-trip Departure OPTIONAL TOUR: Baroque Heritage extension) MediterraneanM Overnight Stay Included Tour/Stop of Sicily Sea Optional Tour/ Palermo Extension Motor Route 10-13 Taormina Sicily Air Route Mediterranean Sea Malta Mazzaro Sea Palace or similar (Post-trip extension) INCLUDED TOURS: Catania, Taormina, Mount Etna IT’S INCLUDED OPTIONAL TOUR: Reggio • Choose to purchase Grand Circle’s • Personal headset on all included and 14-15 Rome airfare, and your airport transfers, optional tours Hotel Albani or similar government taxes, fees, and airline fuel • Exclusive services of a resident Grand INCLUDED TOUR: Rome surcharges are included. Or, make your Circle Program Director (assigned to no own air arrangements more than 42 travelers) 16 Rome • Return to U.S. • Accommodations for 14 nights in • 5% Frequent Traveler Credit toward POST-TRIP OPTION: 6 NIGHTS IN MALTA comfortable rooms with private baths your next Grand Circle trip—an average • 25 meals: 14 breakfasts, 4 lunches, and of $226 7 dinners • Private motorcoach land travel • 7 included tours • Baggage handling for 1 piece of luggage • Exclusive Discovery Series events: Italian per person, including tips With & Without Words discussion • Corleone’s Past & Present discussion with Now included for 2015 lunch • Agriturismo farmhouse lunch • World War II lecture • Italian Volcanoes Gratuities on your main trip are now Please mention this code when booking: discussion • Home-Hosted Lunch included for local guides and motor- G5-24246 coach drivers

Reservations & Information: Call Toll-Free: 1-800-597-2452 • Press 2 Travel on this exciting Mediterranean before a Welcome Dinner in a EXCLUSIVE DISCOVERY SERIES EVENT vacation and discover the rich heritage local restaurant. Learn about Corleone’s Past & Present D—Grand Hotel Wagner or similar during an informative discussion headed that makes Sicily distinct from mainland by some of the region’s younger residents. Day 3 Palermo • Monreale & Palermo Italy. Our tour explores some of Sicily’s Then enjoy a lecture on Mafia history at tour. After breakfast you’ll travel to most enticing regions. In Palermo, the local anti-mafia center, followed by Monreale, where you’ll witness the lunch at a local restaurant. Later, you’ll you’ll uncover a rich tapestry of Arab-Norman splendor of the Monreale transfer to Agrigento to check into your Cathedral. You’ll then return to Palermo, Mediterranean cultures. You’ll also hotel where you will enjoy dinner. getting acquainted with Sicily’s capital B,L,D—Dioscuri Bay Palace or similar enjoy two nights in Agrigento, where on a stroll through the Capo Market—a you’ll witness the Valley of the Temples lively Arab-style open market offering the Day 6 Agrigento • Valley of the colorful sights and smells of local cuisine, Temples. After breakfast, you’ll visit the on an included tour. Next, the ancient produce, and spices. This afternoon, enjoy extraordinary Valley of the Temples, city of Siracusa, known for its rich an included lunch at a local restaurant, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on history of ancient civilizations. You'll and continue your discoveries of Palermo an included tour. These are among the on a panoramic driving tour. greatest Greek ruins in the world, rivaling marvel at sweeping ocean and mountain those in Athens. You’ll see the dramatic EXCLUSIVE DISCOVERY SERIES EVENT views in the cliffside resort town of Temple of Juno, with its excellent views Enjoy a language lesson with your of the entire valley, and the beautifully Taormina. Your vacation concludes Program Director to best understand preserved Temple of Concordia. Savor Italian With & Without Words. In the with two nights in Rome, including a dinner that evening in a local restaurant. evening, dinner will be on your own. tour of the city's highlights. B,D—Dioscuri Bay Palace or similar B,L—Grand Hotel Wagner or similar Day 7 Agrigento • Siracusa. This morning, Day 4 Palermo • Optional Cefalu tour. you’ll enjoy a very special experience—the YOUR ITINERARY You might join our optional tour to chance to meet Sicilian schoolchildren at Cefalu today, a medieval seaside town, the Istituto Comprensivo M.L. King in Day 1 Depart U.S. where you will visit its Norman cathedral, Caltanissetta, part of Grand Circle see regional art in the Mandralisca Day 2 Arrive Palermo, Sicily. Arrival Foundation’s World Classroom Museum, and have free time in its fisher- times in Palermo vary throughout the project. man’s quarter. Enjoy lunch in a local day, depending on your city of departure. restaurant before returning to Palermo. Or EXCLUSIVE DISCOVERY SERIES EVENT You’ll be met at the airport and assisted spend the day exploring on your own. En route to Siracusa, you’ll enjoy a to your hotel, where you’ll be joined by homemade lunch at a Sicilian agriturismo fellow travelers who took our optional B—Grand Hotel Wagner or similar farmhouse in the countryside nearby pre-trip extension, Amalfi Coast, Italy. Day 5 Palermo • Agrigento. You’ll set Caltanissetta.Arrive at your hotel in Later, join your Program Director for a out this morning for hilltop Corleone, Siracusa in the late afternoon. You’ll have Welcome Drink and orientation walk a historic town made famous by The time to relax and reflect on your day’s Godfather novel and films.

Reservations & Information: Call Toll-Free: 1-800-597-2452 • Press 2 discoveries before an orientation walk, enjoy an included lunch at a traditional WHAT TO EXPECT and dinner on your own. restaurant in Scilla, an old fishing village. B,L—Grand Hotel Ortigia or similar This afternoon, enjoy some free time Pacing Day 8 Siracusa • City tour. This morning to explore. • 5 locations in 15 days you’ll enjoy a guided tour of Ortygia, the EXCLUSIVE DISCOVERY SERIES EVENT Physical Requirements historical gem of Siracusa. We will admire Early this evening, enjoy a fascinating dis- • Not accessible for travelers using the architectural splendor of ancient cussion about Italian Volcanoes, including wheelchairs or scooters medieval streets, Baroque structures, and stories about famed Mount Etna. Dinner • Travelers using walkers, crutches, or the cathedral—which was fashioned out is on your own tonight. of an ancient Greek temple. After lunch other mobility aids must travel with B—Mazzaro Sea Palace or similar on your own, the rest of the afternoon is a companion who can assist them at leisure to make your own discoveries. Day 13 Taormina • Mount Etna • throughout the trip Dinner is at a local restaurant this evening. Home-Hosted Lunch. After breakfast, visit • You must be able to walk 2-3 miles B,D—Grand Hotel Ortigia or similar magnificent Mount Etna, Europe’s largest unassisted and participate in 3-5 hours active volcano. Arriving at about 6,000 of physical activities each day, including Day 9 Siracusa • Optional Baroque feet of elevation, you’ll see Silvestri Crater. stairs Heritage of Sicily tour. Enjoy the day Climate exploring Siracusa on your own. At one EXCLUSIVE DISCOVERY SERIES EVENT time, its wealth and size were unmatched In Mitogio, you’ll be welcomed by a • Daytime temperatures range from by any other city in the ancient world, Sicilian family for a traditional Home- 50-92°F during touring season and today it is one of the richest historical Hosted Lunch.Tonight, dinner is on • Temperatures on excursion to Mount sites in Europe. Or discover the Baroque your own. Etna (altitude: 11,000 feet) range from Heritage of Sicily on a full-day optional B,L—Mazzaro Sea Palace or similar 32-85°F excursion. Day 14 Taormina • Catania • Rome. • June-August are the warmest months B—Grand Hotel Ortigia or similar After breakfast, you’ll travel to Rome, • March and December weather can Day 10 Siracusa • Savoca • Taormina. stopping in the town of Catania. You’ll be unpredictable and change quickly After breakfast, travel to Savoca, where visit a history museum depicting the land- within a short period of time many scenes of The Godfather were shot. ing of Allied troops on the southern coast Terrain Enjoy lunch on your own and some free of Sicily in July of 1943. Then, experience • Travel over uneven walking surfaces, time here before you travel to Taormina, a slice of local life when you visit a unpaved paths, steep hills, stairs, and where you’ll check into your hotel, and fish market before lunch on your own. cobblestone then enjoy dinner in a local restaurant. Arriving in Rome in the late afternoon, B,D—Mazzaro Sea Palace or similar enjoy an orientation walk of your neigh- Transportation borhood and dinner on your own. • Travel by 45-seat coach Day 11 Taormina • City tour. This B—Hotel Albani or similar morning, you’ll explore Taormina more Cuisine in depth during an included walking tour. Day 15 Rome • City tour. After breakfast, • Meals will be based on the local cuisine You’ll visit the city’s greatest landmark, enjoy a panoramic tour of Rome. You’ll the Greco-Roman amphitheater, built in see and view the landmarks and monu- the third century BC and expanded by the ments that are the signature attractions of Romans in the second century AD. Enjoy this beautiful city. an afternoon to explore on your own. Following lunch on your own, enjoy the EXCLUSIVE DISCOVERY SERIES EVENT afternoon at leisure. This evening, join Early this evening, hear a lecture about your fellow travelers this evening for a Tailor your vacation the World War II Allied landing in Sicily Farewell Dinner at a local restaurant. with our optional tours during the 1943 “Husky” mission. You’ll B,D—Hotel Albani or similar learn about what it meant to the people Day 16 Rome • Return to U.S. Fly home Cefalu of Sicily, as well as how the local mafia or extend your discoveries in Malta. (Day 4, $95 per person) became involved. Tonight, dinner is at a B local restaurant. Baroque Heritage of Sicily B,D—Mazzaro Sea Palace or similar Please note: We reserve the right for our Program (Day 9, $105 per person) Directors to modify participation, or in some Day 12 Taormina • Optional Reggio tour. circumstances send travelers home if their limitations Reggio are impacting the group’s experience. You have a day on your own. (Day 12, $110 per person) Or, you can join our optional excursion to Reggio. We will visit the Palazzo della Optional tour prices listed are U.S. dollar Regione, home to a renowned pair of estimates determined at the time of publication and are subject to change. ancient Greek bronze statues, and then Optional tours may vary.

Reservations & Information: Call Toll-Free: 1-800-597-2452 • Press 2 DISCOVER SICILY: SAVE up to 10% HEART OF THE MEDITERRANEAN and lock in your price! PAY IN FULL prior to YOUR SAVINGS off your your departure date total trip price* 2015 Land Tour Only 12 months or more prior 10% off to departure APRIL 25, 2015 11 months prior to departure 7% off Land Tour only $2895 10 months prior to departure 6% off ➤SIC2014 9 months prior to departure 5% off 8 months prior to departure 4% off Air Add-On 7 months prior to departure 3% off Mobile, Alabama $1550 6 months prior to departure 2% off 5 months prior to departure 1.5% off Additional departure cities are available. Call for details. Make your final payment by $50 off check within the last 120 days Deposit: $350 per person. Single Supplement: Single accommodations are limited. If single rooms EXAMPLE: Based on a $5000 trip price Paid in full by check 12 are full, ask about our Roommate Matching Service. months prior to your departure date, you save $500 (10% of your trip price) Paid in full by check 8 months prior to your departure date, Guaranteed Travel Protection Plan: Please visit www.gct.com/tpp for you save $200 (4% of your trip price) Paid in full by check 6 months details on this optional program. Standard Terms & Conditions apply when prior to your departure date, you save $100 (2% of your trip price) purchasing this program. Visit our website at www.gct.com/tc for details. * You will save a minimum of $50 when you pay in full by check. Every effort has been made to produce this information accurately. We reserve the right to correct errors. After you reserve your trip, toll-free Customer Service and our Air Department are available Monday–Friday 9 am to 8 pm ET, Saturday Frequent Traveler Credits & Sunday 9 am to 7 pm ET at 1-800-321-2835. Every time you travel with Grand Circle and OAT, you’ll receive a Frequent Traveler Credit worth 5% of the advertised cost of your trip (less any discounts), applicable toward your next Grand Circle or GOVERNMENT TAXES AND FEES The following government taxes and fees are now OAT trip you take within one year. After one year, your credit value included in your airfare price. Government and other authority taxes and fees: is adjusted to 3% of your advertised trip cost and remains valid for September 11th Security Fee of up to $2.50 USD applies per passenger, per flight segment (maximum charge per trip—$5.00 USD one-way, $10.00 USD round trip). one more year. (Frequent Traveler Credits expire after two years.) A flight segment is defined as one takeoff and one landing. Passenger Facility If you are currently booked on a Grand Circle or OAT trip, you can Charge (PFC) of up to $18 per passenger. Federal Domestic Flight Segment Fee of now apply the Travel Credits you’ve earned towards subsequent up to $3.70 USD applies per passenger, per flight segment (defined as a takeoff departures—even if you have not yet departed on your trip. Some and a landing). U.S. or International Departure and Arrival Charges of up to $200 USD may apply depending on itinerary. On select itineraries that include the restrictions apply. purchase of a pre- and/or post-trip extension, U.S. or international departure and arrival charges of up to $300 USD may apply. Call for details. Standard Terms & Conditions can be found on the web at www.gct.com/tc.

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Trip name/code: Discover Sicily: Heart of the Please be ready to give Mediterranean/SIC the reservations agent Departure date: April 25, 2015 the following information Please mention this  code when booking: G5-24246

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