9 or 11 days ENGLAND, IRELAND & WALES FACULTY-LED INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ABOUT THIS TOUR Start your panoramic tour of England, Ireland and Wales in the Emerald Isle, where you’ll enjoy an excursion to the Ring of Kerry and experience the charm of Dublin. Continue exploring as you tour North Wales, Stratford and Oxford. Finish your adventure by discovering the best of London, from Trafalgar Square to St. Paul’s Cathedral. Through it all, you’ll return home prepared for whatever path lies ahead of you. Beyond photos and stories, new perspectives and glowing confidence, you’ll have something to carry with you for the rest of your life. It could be an inscription you read on the walls of a famous monument, or perhaps a joke you shared with another student from around the world. The fact is, there’s just something transformative about an EF College Study Tour, and it’s different for every traveler. Once you’ve traveled with us, you’ll know exactly what it is for you. DAY 3: Ring of Kerry DAY 4: Blarney Castle DAY 5: Dublin DAY 5: St. Patrick’s Cathedral DAY 8: Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament ENGLAND, IRELAND & WALES 9 or 11 days DDublinDuubblininn INCLUDED ON TOUR: OPTIONAL EXCURSION: HolyheHoHHolyhHolyHolyheaolyheaoolllyyyhheadhheead Round-trip airfare Windsor Castle SnoSnowdonianowwddodonianiiaa Land transportation Shannononn Optional excursions let you incorporate additional CCasheshhele NNorthNoorrtrth WalesWaWa es Hotel accommodations Killarneyeyey sites and attractions into your itinerary and make the BlarneBBllaarneaararneyrneyr eyy StratfordSSttrraaatttfffoord Light breakfast daily and select meals most of your time abroad. OxOxfordOxfxfofordfoorrdrd LondLLoondonondonond RinggofK of Kerry KerrKeKerKe Full-time tour director WindsorWWindsiinnddsssooror Sightseeing tours and visits to special attractions Free time to study and explore EXTENSION: Paris (2 days) Extend your tour and enjoy extra time exploring your FOR MORE INFORMATION: destination or seeing a new place at a great value. PaParisParisaarrriisis efcollegestudytours.com/EIWA DAY 7: Anne Hathaway’s Cottage DAY 8: Houses of Parliament DAY 8: Piccadilly Circus DAY 10: Louvre DAY 1 FLY TO IRELAND Rock of Cashel—the former seat of the Kings birthplace. Continue to Anne Hathaway’s Fish and chips dinner • Reminisce about Meet your group and travel on an overnight of Munster—is home to an incredible array of Cottage, a picturesque farmhouse where the the past week over a traditional fi sh and fl ight to Shannon. medieval architecture. Be sure to check out Bard’s wife spent her childhood. The Cottage chips dinner this evening. the ruins of Cormac’s Chapel and the Round grounds include a classic English garden that DAY 2 SHANNON • KILLARNEY Tower. boasts a variety of colorful fl owers. DAY 9 DEPART FOR HOME Arrive in Shannon • Welcome to the Travel to Dublin • Head to Dublin, the largest Oxford • Explore the world’s oldest university Transfer to the airport and check in for your Emerald Isle! city in Ireland. Once your group arrives, refuel town and take in the spired city that return fl ight home. Travel to Killarney • Make your way to the with a hearty Guinness stew dinner before generations of great thinkers called home. beautiful town of Killarney (literally, “church turning in for the night. Centuries-old Oxford is the alma mater for 2-DAY TOUR EXTENSION of sloes”), where you’ll spend the night. many notable fi gures, including British prime DAYS 9-10 PARIS Depending on your arrival time, you may have DAY 5 DUBLIN ministers Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. Travel to Paris • Board a Eurostar train and free time to explore the town on your own. Sightseeing tour of Dublin • Experience Travel to London • Make your way to travel to the City of Light. Ireland’s capital, scenically situated between cosmopolitan London, where you’ll spend Sightseeing tour of Paris • Ride down DAY 3 KILLARNEY Dun Laoghaire and Howth Head’s rocky the night. the famous Champs-Élysées, an elegant Ring of Kerry • Traverse the Ring of Kerry peaks. On your sightseeing tour, you’ll pass boulevard packed with high-fashion and encounter Ireland’s famed mystical by Phoenix Park and the presidential DAY 8 LONDON boutiques. Pass the Place de la Concorde beauty. This stunning coastal route wraps residence before continuing to bustling Sightseeing tour of London • From Big Ben and the Arc de Triomphe and strike a pose around the Iveragh Peninsula. Here you O’Connell Street. When you ride through to the Houses of Parliament, Great Britain’s in front of the Eiffel Tower. Your guide shares can experience everything from the Old Dublin’s elegant Georgian squares, ask royal tradition and rich history greet you at insight into Parisian culture and stories of the Monastery to unspoilt beaches to Killarney about the colorful doors lining these streets. every turn. Admire the city’s architectural city’s military history when you continue past National Park. On your visit, take in Visit Trinity College • Playwright Samuel marvels, like the Baroque domes and spires Les Invalides. magnifi cent views of the Atlantic Ocean and Beckett and satirist Jonathan Swift studied of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the 17th-century Louvre • Enter by I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid, the placid Lakes of Killarney. You’ll also at Trinity College, your next stop. In the Old church designed by Sir Christopher Wren. and discover the Greek, Roman and Asian pass by the misty peaks of Macgillycuddy’s Library you’ll view the Book of Kells. Irish Check out the lively fi ve-way intersection antiquities, as well as precious objects from Reeks. This range reaches its zenith at monks created this calligraphic manuscript at Piccadilly Circus as well as the urban the Middle Ages, that await inside. The Carrauntoohil, Ireland’s tallest mountain. more than 1,000 years ago. greenery of Hyde Park. You may even get a Louvre’s massive halls are home to more than Visit the Bog Village • Check out the Bog Visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral • Explore the chance to witness the ceremonial Changing 35,000 objects; among them is Leonardo da Village, a winner of the prestigious National Gothic arches and spires of St. Patrick’s of the Guard. Cap off your tour beside the Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa. Get an Heritage Award. Wander through a recreation Cathedral, whose presence honors the patron River Thames and snap photos of the Tower up-close look at her beguiling smile. of an Irish village from the early 1800s as saint of Ireland. of London. Explore Paris • Check out Paris on foot. costumed guides demonstrate the way of life Optional: Windsor Castle • On your trip to Head to the Latin Quarter, so named because that prevailed in 19th-century rural Ireland. DAY 6 DUBLIN • NORTH WALES this former fortress, see priceless objects the language was once commonly spoken Visit a Welsh castle • Take a ferry ride to in the State Apartments, like paintings by by the Sorbonne students that populated the DAY 4 KILLARNEY • DUBLIN Holyhead, where you will visit a Welsh castle. Rubens and Holbein. Encounter the Gothic area. Travel to Cork • Continue to Cork, Ireland’s Continue through Snowdonia • Tonight, splendor of St. George’s Chapel, fi nal resting Notre Dame Cathedral • Admire Notre thriving cultural center, full of art, live music travel across the lush greenery and icy blue place of many monarchs including Henry VIII Dame’s sculptured façade, stained-glass rose and a growing restaurant scene. lakes of Snowdonia National Park. and Charles I. Take a look into the miniature windows and seemingly weightless vaulted Visit Blarney Castle • At this medieval world of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, where ceilings. fortifi cation, join the Castle’s visitors in kissing DAY 7 STRATFORD • OXFORD • castle items are replicated in 1/12th scale— the Blarney Stone, which is said to grant the LONDON including a working lighting system and DAY 11 DEPART FOR HOME gift of eloquence. Stratford-upon-Avon • Tour the half- functional plumbing! Those who do not join Rock of Cashel • Set on rolling Irish hills, the timbered house that is Shakespeare’s the excursion will enjoy free time in London. WEB EFCOLLEGESTUDYTOURS.COM/EIWA PHONE 877.485.4184 WHAT OUR TRAVELERS SAY BARBARA L. ERIN H. CHELSEA S. VIRGINA M. Concordia University Itasca Community College Northern Oklahoma College Palo Alto College Portland, OR Grand Rapids, MN Stillwater, OK San Antonio, TX “The overall experience of the trip was “I had such an amazing time, and I “I can’t believe we had the opportunity “Every student should go. I enjoyed amazing, unforgettable. I went on the learned so much. We saw so many to see and do so many things for what flying to a foreign country, getting tour not knowing many of the students different sights. My experiences we paid. I traveled on my own soon completely out of my comfort zone and in my group, and came back with really enriched my understanding of another after my trip, and the flight alone cost truly seeing what this world has to of- good friends and amazing memories. culture, and created a realistic concept more than the entire tour—which fer. We tried new food, spoke different With the guidance of the tour director, of an entirely foreign culture I would included meals, shows, tourist sites. languages, and saw so many of the I got to experience new culture without never have been exposed to I will never ever forget this experience. best sights on our walking tours. I love feeling completely lost. I now know that otherwise.” You’d be crazy not to take a tour with history, and being able to experience I can succeed and survive in a foreign EF—they take great care of you.” what I’ve studied for years was so mov- country.” ing it left me speechless.