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• 11 Nights of Hotel Accommodation
• All Ground Transportation (including transportation pass)
• Daily Full English Breakfast
• Farewell Group Dinner
• Meeting Room
• Historical & Cultural Walking Tours
• Full Time Local Guide
• Full Time On Site Program Director (Available 24/7 in case of Emergencies)
• Travelers Health Insurance & Liability Insurance
• Tips & Gratuities
• Down House
• Westminster Abbey
• British Museum
• Linnean Society
• National Gallery
• Sedgwick Museum
• Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Airport Transfer
Check-in, Relax & Refresh
Orientation Walking Tour - The group will become oriented with their neighborhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. Additionally, an in-depth safety briefing will be provided for what to do in case of an emergency.
Train from Victoria Station to Bromley South
Down House Guided Visit - Down House is the former home of the English naturalist Charles Darwin and his family. It was in this house and garden that Darwin worked on his theories of evolution by natural selection which he had conceived in London before moving to Down.
Lunch Break
Train from Bromley South to Victoria Station
Westminster Abbey - A royal church offering daily services for all and a World Heritage Site with over a thousand years of history.
Lunch Break
National Gallery - The collection comprises some 2,000 works, but it is regarded by many as the most representative sampling of European painting in the world.
Free Day in London
Natural History Museum - Exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural History, within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Paleontology, and Zoology.
Lunch Break
British Museum - The British Museum is a public institution dedicated to human history, art, and culture. Its permanent collection of some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence, having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire.
Linnean Society - The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history.
Lunch Break
Free Time & Cultural Immersion
Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre
Free Day in London
Train from London St. Pancras to Cambridge
Luggage Storage
Lunch Break
Historical & Cultural Walking Tour of Cambridge - The tour includes famous colleges such as King’s, Trinity, St. John’s, Gonville, and Caius and Corpus Christi. We will also visit notable town sights such as Great St. Mary's church, the 11th century St Bene’t’s Church, and the historic Eagle pub. You will see the Senate House, where students put a car on the roof in 1958. And no tour is complete without seeing the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory, where 29 Nobel prizes were earned.
Check-in & Refresh
Sedgwick Museum Guided Tour - The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge.
Lunch Break
Cambridge University Archives King’s College Chapel Evensong
Orchard Tea Garden, Grantchester
Lunch Break
Free Time & Cultural Immersion
Cambridge University Botanic Garden Guided Tour - The Cambridge University Botanic Garden is a botanical garden associated with the university's Department of Plant Sciences. The garden covers an area of 16 hectares.
Lunch Break
Free Time & Cultural Immersion
Train from Cambridge to London St. Pancras
Check-in & Refresh
Farewell Dinner & Program Closing - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets.
Airport Transfer - Private Bus
Depart London, England for Home