FRANCE

PARIS, NORMANDY & LOIRE VALLEY 

8 days/7 nights

Self-drive or if budget allows, with private car and English speaking driver-guide. This can also be done by train with some slight modifications.

DAY 1 : ARRIVAL IN PARIS

Pick up at the airport and transfer to your hotel in Paris. Time to explore the city on a Hop on Hop off tour or with a private driver-guide.

DAY 2 : PARIS – GIVERNY – DEAUVILLE

Pick up at your hotel and transfer to Giverny for a visit of Monet's house and gardens. Claude Monet lived for forty-three years, from 1883 to 1926, in his house in Giverny. With a passion for gardening as well as for colors, he conceived both his flower garden and water garden as true works of art. Walking through his house and gardens, visitors can still feel the atmosphere which reigned at the home of the Master of Impressionnism and marvel at the floral compositions and nymphéas, his greatest sources of inspiration.

Travel to Deauville. Overnight in Deauville.

DAY 3 : FULL DAY TOUR NORMANDY

Breakfast at your hotel.

Pick up at your hotel. Today, you will discover the places where the main events and battles of

the Battle of Normandy took place.

Our guide will take you to the landing beaches themselves, the inland battlefields, the cemeteries and you will discover the history behind each of them. You will visit the D-Day museum, Juno Beach Centre, cemeteries, and beaches.

Transfer to Bayeux. Overnight in Bayeux.

DAY 4 : BAYEUX – LE MONT ST MICHEL – BAYEUX

Pick up at your hotel and transfer to Le Mont Saint-Michel.

Le Mont Saint-Michel, perched on a rocky islet in the midst of vast sandbanks exposed to powerful tides between Normandy and Brittany stands the 'Wonder of the West'. Visit this exceptional site formed by a granite island with its village houses huddled close together and encircled by walls and on top, a Gothic-style Benedictine abbey dedicated to the archangel St Michael.

Transfer back to Bayeux for a visit of the Bayeux Tapestry which is an embroidery, 70 metres long, made in the 11th century. It is listed as a “Memory of the World” by UNESCO.

Overnight in Bayeux.

DAY 5 : BAYEUX – AMBOISE

Breakfast at your hotel.

Pick up at your hotel and transfer to Amboise.

This afternoon, you will visit the Royal Château d'Amboise. This emblematic monument and its landscaped gardens offer one of the most remarkable panoramas of the Loire Valley, and are registered as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.

Overnight in Amboise.

DAY 6 : AMBOISE – CHAMBORD – VERSAILLES – PARIS

Breakfast at your hotel.

Pick up at your hotel. In the morning, you will visit the Château of Chambord. The largest Renaissance castle born from the dreams of a young king, Francis the 1st, and from the greatest genius of all times, Leonardo Da Vinci. The most fascinating Loire Valley castle.

Then on to Paris. Stop for a visit of Versailles Palace, residence of the Sun King, Louis XIV. You will discover the “Grand Apartments”, the famous “Galerie des Glaces” (Mirror Gallery), the Queen’s bedroom & the famous "A la Francaise" gardens.

Transfer to Paris. Overnight in Paris. 

DAY 7 : PARIS

Breakfast at your hotel.

Pick up at your hotel. This morning you will enjoy a panoramic tour of Paris where we will discover the main monuments : Invalides, Orsay Museum, Notre-Dame and Ste Chapelle, Hôtel de Sully, Bastille, Hôtel de Ville, Louvre, Louvre pyramid, Opera, Madeleine, Tuileries Garden, Concorde Place, Champs-Elysées Avenue, Arc of Triomph, Trocadéro, Eiffel Tower.

This afternoon, you will visit the Louvre Museum. The Louvre Museum, the former residence of the kings of France, has for two centuries been one of the biggest museums in the world. Its collections are spread over 8 departments : Near Eastern Antiquities, Islamic Art, Egyptian, Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Paintings, Sculptures, Decorative Arts, and Prints and Drawings dating from the Middle Ages to 1848.

Overnight in Paris.

DAY 8 : DEPART PARIS

Pick up at your hotel for private transfer to the airport.

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