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Day
1
- Fly to
Nashville
- Holiday
Inn-Express
Today, we will fly to
Music City USA, Nashville, Tennessee
Day
2
- Continental
Breakfast, Dinner
- City Tour of
Nashville
- Grand Ole
Opry
This morning, we will tour
Nashville, the home of Country Music. Our tour of this famous city
will take us past the homes of some of Country Music's most
famous names, like Larry Gatlin, Dolly Parton, Ronnie, Milsap, Marty
Robins, Minnie Pearl, Tammy Wynette, Hank Williams, Sr., and the
late Waylon Jennings.
A highlight of our tour will be Music
Row where Country Music Hall of Fame, the Country Music Wax Museum,
the Barbara Mandrell Country Museum and many other Music City
attractions are all located. The Parthenon, State Capitol, Fort
Nashboro, Ryman Auditorium, and the Governor's Mansion are a few of
the other interesting spots that we will view as we tour this lovely
city.
Later, we'll tour the Hermitage, Andrew
jackson's stately historic mansion.
This evening, we will take in the show
at the legendary Grand Ole Opry.
Day
3
- Continental
Breakfast
- Tour to Pigeon
Forge
- Visit
Dollywood
- Dixie Stampede
Dinner Show
- Holiday
Inn-Express
Today, we'll tour through
central Tennessee as we pass through Knoxville enroute to Pigeon
Forge. Once in Pigeon Forge, we'll visit Dollywood, Dolly Parton's
showcase park dedicated to the music and crafts of the Great Smoky
Mountains.
Tonight, get ready to "hoot and holler"
at the Dixie Stampede Show, a fun-filled evening of singing,
country-style dining, rodeo and wild-west style competition between
Yankee and Confederate teams!
Day
4
- Continental
Breakfast, Dinner
- Tour Great Smoky
Mountain Park
- Visit Cherokee,
North Carolina & gatlinberg, Tennessee
- Country Tonight
Show
Today, we'll travel the
gorgeous Great Smoky Mountain Parkway through America's most visited
National Park. We'll visit cherokee, North Carolina which gets its
name from the Indian in the area. In Gatlinberg, we'll see one of
America's favorite resorts, complete with its numerous galleries,
restaurants, and stores set against the backdrop of the
Great
Smoky Mountains.
Tonight, we'll complete our Great Smoky
Mountain Music Tour as we enjoy the Country Tonight
Show.
Day
5
- Continental
Breakfast
- Tour to
Lexington, Kentucky
- Lunch at Daniel
Boone Tavern
- Churchill
Weavers, Berea, Kentucky
- Holiday
Inn-Express
We will travl through the
Cumblerland Gap, this morning, enroute to Kentucky and Lexington, in
the heart of the Bluegrass horse country. Lunch will be at the
historic Daniel Boone Tavern in Berea, Kentucky. Later, we will take
a most interesting tour of the Churchill Weavers
Mill in
Berea.
Day
6
- Continental
Breakfast, Dinner
- City Tour of
Lexington and Frankfort
- Kentucky Horse
Farm
- Rebecca Ruth
Candy Factory
Today will be a
horse-lover's delight as we viist the Kentucky Horse Farm with its
exhibits and shows. You'll see numerous breeds put through their
paces as you tour this famous museum dedicated to the story of all
horses dating back to those that powered chariots in ancient Rome.
We will then visit Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, where we will
see the old and new state Capitols, the Governor's Mansion, and see
how bourbon candy is made at the Rebecca Candy Factory ans Store.
How about a free sample?
Then we'll sightsee the elegant
Thoroughbred Horse Farms along Versailles Road.
Day
7
- Continental
Breakfast, Dinner
- Tour to
Bardstown and Louisville
- Holiday
Inn-Express
This morning we will
travel to historic Bardstown, sight of Stephen Foster's "My Old
Kentucky Home" an dnumerous Bourbon distilleries. We will visit the
Museum of Bourbon History, which has a display of the history of
distilling. Theold bottle collection includes that of distiller E.C.
Booz. After lunch, we will visit the JimBeam Bourbon Distillery,
where you can see all of the famous Jim Beam
decanters.
We will then tour to Louisville, home of
Churchill Downs, the sight of the Kentucky Derby, before we head
south to Elizabethtown, Kentucky for the
evening.
Day
8
- Continental
Breakfast
- Tour to
Nashville
- Fly
Home
We wil tour to Nashville,
today, for our flights home. We return home with many fond memories
of Autumn in Kentucky and Tennessee!
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