Czech and Slovak Heritage Tours
Celebrating our 18th Year
In affiliation with "Forest Lake Travel, Inc."
Serving your travel needs for 30 years with a complete range of plans and tours.Use our toll free phone number 1-888-4CS-TOUR ( 1-888-427-8687)
We now offer individual and small group travel arrangements. This can be to any places you wish at any time of the year. . This are offered for those of you who can not fit our normal tours into your schedule. They will NOT include the many unique stops and places on my normal tours - as many artists, musicians and people do this as a favor to me - I can not ask too much. They do these things for the love of their culture and not for a living - they have real jobs just like us. However they will be a wonderful experience - all done by natives,
who know their part of Europe very well. If this will be a better option for you please contact Mark by email or call Forest Lake Travel - Deb at 1-888-427-8687
Call Forest Lake travel and put the $300 deposit (per-person) on your credit card !
With a number of options :
a 6 day, a 8 day, or 12 day tour.
May 2 – 13, 2009
Prices start at only $ 1695 pp
June 25 to July 7 or 9.
12 or 14 days.
Price starting at $ 2649 pp
With 3 different options :
Sept. 11 - 26
Priced from $ 1795 pp
First tour starts by attending the Liberation Festival in Plzeň. Honoring the liberators of this area in WW II . ( the USA ! ) A Bohemian village experience – learn to make koláč, Jiternice = sausage, sing and folk dance. See Českỳ Krumlov, charming Ceský Budĕjovice plus striking Pisek. Medieval Castles, and Chateaus.
Ending in glorious Prague, with a wonderful evening dinner cruise on the river.
Second tour Starts in Prague, and attends hops festival. East Bohemia - Kutna Horá, Nové Mĕsto, and Náchod, many unique Heritage tours sites & places. Or combine BOTH tours together !
First event the largest folk festival in Central Europe, Strážnice ! .
Thousands of people in folk costumes, lots of live music all day long, wonderful folk programs - a spectacular travel experience !
Wine cellar visit, Lednice chateau,
a hat museum, distillery, Rožnov-
a wonderful open air-museum.
Then to the spectacular Vỳchodná Slovak folk festival, what a setting for this festival in the mountains.
Also gothic churches, and castles, meet a number of folk artists too. Ending in glorious Prague, with a
optional 2 day Prague excursion. Walking tours of all the major sites , and places. Including a evening boat ride under historic Charles bridge a super experience.
First tour: From Prague off to Moravia and a exciting wine and harvest festival.
5,000 + people in folk costumes ! Dancing, food, crafts, folk pottery. Lots of great music, no other tourists. Brewery tour and visit medieval Buchlov castle. Off to Slovakia – Trenčin & Bratislava. Then POLAND - Krakow, and Auschwitz. Back in Moravia to Rožnov open air museum, car museum, folk artists. Then on to splendid Prague.
Second tour: to South Bohemia, a real village experience – learn to make koláč, Jiternice = sausage, sing and folk dance. Hluboka chateau, Pisek, České Budĕjovice, folk artists… Českỳ Krumlov, crystal factory, Třeboň. OR do BOTH tours !
Our detailed itineraries are a little vague on purpose.
This is done for variety of very good reasons:
1 ) We try VERY hard to keep you away from hoards of tourists, and try to show you a real European experience. Once our secret places or things are found by general travelers at large, they will over time become more touristy and cease to be un-trampled and untouched old world experience your looking for.
2 ) Places change hands, the best restaurant chef leaves, things happen to people and places. We plan these tours a year or more in advance, it's impossible for everything to remain exactly the same as when we first planned it. SO we keep our itinerary rather open to see what local things come up or are organized closer to our departure date. ( Don't worry we always have too much to see and do, you will NOT be sitting in a hotel room someplace twitting your fingers ! - you can do that at home. )
3 ) We must be very good at what we do, as we have found our tours copied completely a number of times by other agency's and tour operators. Why go on a pale copy, when we offer you the unique original! We have a number of people who return with us many times, because no two tours are the same, we are constantly adding new places, and unknown finds. Our number one fan is a lady from Southern California who has been on 7 tours.The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland did join the EU = European Union on May 1st 2004.They do NOT use the EURO= European money system yet. ( it will be a few years yet until they qualify). BUT they do qualify for the new EU taxes which in most cases is 19%. Yes that is correct and not a typo. Starting on Jan. 1, 2005 hotels, restaurants, and many things will have an additional 19% tax added. So again the longer you wait to visit the best parts of Europe, the more it will cost you.
***** Update = the US dollar has dropped in value to a all time low against both the Czech Crown and the Euro = The Czech Crown has even gained in value against the Euro. So everything has gotten much more expensive in the Czech Republic. Not knowing what you are doing, and to make a few mistakes, will now be a very expensive lesson. Save yourself the trouble, expense and stress = take a Heritage Tour and let us take care of you !
Don't delay your dreams............Happy travels !
In affiliation with "Forest Lake Travel, Inc."
Serving your travel needs for 30 years with a complete range of plans and tours.For our May 2007 tour, Forest Lake Travel got airfare prices almost $ 400 less per-person than other people paid using the Internet.
( almost the same flights and times, just some people paid a whole lot more)
It always pays to go with travel experts.
Heritage Tours , designed for People Accustomed to Independent Travel
Enjoy a typical Czech breakfast in a Prague home. Visit a country cottage, where we are treated to home made apple strudel
Learn to decorate hand blown eggs
Dancing and singing lesions with local folk dancers
Learn hands on how to stuff Jiternice (traditional sausages)
Folk weddings
Small gauge train rides in the countryside
Music concert in a gothic castle
Folk artists – some internationally known
Two restored 15 century medieval houses, only 8 guest rooms in each building Mountain top hotel, overlooking a beautiful wooded valley
Quaint small hotel with hand carved wooden ceilings
15th century monastery, a wonderfully restored water mill
Hops folk festival Embroidered ribbon factory and Family ceramic workshops
Church decorated for the harvest festival – very unique
Eat at unique gothic style restaurants serving medieval style food
Tour military bunkers from WW II
Visit the only hand-made paper workshop in Central Europe
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