An Exclusive Small Group Tour for Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Rice University
Featuring Professor Joseph Manca, Department of Art History
Discovering Eastern Europe
August 24-September 8, 2021
16 days for $5,297 total price from Houston($4,795 air & land inclusive plus $502 airline taxes and fees)
This tour is provided by Odysseys Unlimited,
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Dear Rice alumni, parents, and friends,
Travel with us on an exclusive 16-day small group tour throughout Eastern Europe. Your odyssey spans four countries and weaves together the area’s deep history with the monumental events of the 20th century. We are pleased to have Joseph Manca, Professor of Art History and Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History at Rice University, lead this journey.
Discover the charm of Budapest, Vienna, Warsaw, Krakow, and Prague, and explore significant cultural, historical, and scenic sites along the way. Highlights of this tour include touring Vienna’s majestic Schönbrunn Palace and seeing Josefov, Prague’s historic Jewish ghetto. Explore the unique Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow, and bear witness to history at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Conclude your journey in Prague, with ample free time to explore the city on your own. For those interested in exploring the cosmopolitan German capital, an optional 4-day/3-night Berlin post-tour extension is available.
With space for only 24 Rice-affiliated guests in total, we expect this tour to fill quickly. Your deposit is fully refundable up until 95 days prior to departure. Book risk-free today!
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Rice Alumni Traveling Owls
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Day 1: Depart U.S. for Warsaw, Poland
Day 2: Arrive Warsaw After arriving in the Polish capital late this morning, we have free time before we gather for tonight’s welcome dinner at our hotel. D
Day 3: Warsaw Virtually destroyed during World War II, Warsaw was rebuilt in the decades that followed. With the fall of Communism, the city has become more dynamic and progressive while retaining much of its distinct character. We tour this phoenix city today, visiting the faithfully rebuilt Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site; and the Royal Castle, whose origins date to the late 13th century. We also tour the area of the former Jewish Ghetto and the Jewish Cemetery. This afternoon is free for independent exploration; before dinner on our own tonight we enjoy a private classical piano recital. B
Day 4: Warsaw/Krakow Today we journey south to Krakow, Poland’s third-largest city and a major center of Polish culture and education. Krakow survived World War II intact, leaving it with more historic buildings and monuments than anywhere else in the country. Its authentic Old Town is a UNESCO cultural site, and the Main Market Square ranks as the largest medieval square in Europe. Upon arrival late this morning, we have time for lunch on our own before we embark on a tour of the city’s historic area, featuring St. Mary’s Church; the Royal Chambers of Wawel Castle, seat of royalty for more than 500 years; and Wawel Cathedral, the national church. We dine together tonight at our hotel. B,D
Day 5: Auschwitz We travel this morning to the industrial city of Oswiecim – Auschwitz in German – and the concentration camp that is now a museum chronicling the horrors of the Nazis’ Final Solution. We tour Auschwitz I, used mainly to hold prisoners, as well as the vast camp at Birkenau (and Auschwitz II), where more than one million people died during the Holocaust. After this somber visit, we return to Krakow where the remainder of the day is free for independent exploration. B,L
Whether you’re seeking to recapture your ancestral heritage or simply wish to discover a beautiful and poignant part of the world, this small group tour offers ample opportunity for enrichment, enlightenment, and enjoyment. With both comprehensive touring and time for independent exploration, it provides a generous overview of four distinctly different – and fascinating – nations.
Tour membership limited to 24 Rice alumni and friends
Cover photo: Budapest’s imposing Hungarian Parliament Building stretches along the Danube.
Small Group Tour HighlightsWarsaw sightseeing • Guided visits to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps • Wieliczka Salt Mine, Krakow • Comprehensive Budapest touring • Scenic Danube Bend • Vienna sightseeing and classical music performance • Tour of elegant Prague, including Old Town Square, Prague Castle, Charles Bridge
Day Itinerary Hotel Rating1 Depart U.S. for Warsaw
2-3 Warsaw Polonia Palace Sup. First Class
4-6 Krakow Hotel Pod Roza Not rated
7-9 Budapest Hilton Budapest Deluxe
10-12 Vienna Hilton Vienna Deluxe Plaza
13-15 Prague Grand Bohemia Sup. First Class Praha
16 Depart Prague for U.S.
Ratings are based on the Hotel & Travel Index, the travel industry standard reference. Unrated hotels may be too small, too new, or too remote to be listed.
Discovering Eastern Europe16 days for $5,297 total price from Houston($4,795 air & land inclusive plus $502 airline taxes and fees)
Avg. High (°F) Aug SepWarsaw 73 66Budapest 81 74Vienna 75 68
Prague
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Budapest
Krakow
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DestinationMotorcoachExtension (train)Entry/Departure
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Berlin
Day 6: Krakow This morning we tour the Wieliczka Salt Mine, a UNESCO World Heritage site that is a virtual underground city, with galleries, lakes, chapels, and murals – all carved from salt. The mine’s centerpiece is the Chapel of Saint Kinga, with its chandelier and mural of The Last Supper, carved by three miners over a period of 68 years. Then we return to Krakow, where the remainder of the day is free for independent exploration, with lunch and dinner on our own in this historic capital. B
Day 7: Krakow/Slovakia/Budapest Heading south today we travel through the snowcapped Tatra Mountains into the country of Slovakia, where we stop for lunch. Continuing our journey, we reach our hotel in Buda’s elegant Castle District early this evening and dine there together tonight. B,L,D
Day 8: Budapest Today’s half-day tour of the Hungarian capital begins adjacent to our hotel with a visit to Matthias Church, the symbol of Buda’s Castle District, and a stroll around Fisherman’s Bastion for outstanding views of the Pest side of the city across the Danube. Then we cross the Chain Bridge into Pest where we tour Dohany Synagogue, Europe’s largest. Following an afternoon at leisure, tonight we enjoy a typical Hungarian dinner at a local restaurant. B,D
Day 9: Budapest We’re free to discover the “Paris of the East” on our own today. With splendid architecture, a lively café culture, museums, and a royal castle, this city on the Danube offers endless opportunities for exploration and enjoyment. B
Day 10: Budapest/Danube Bend/Vienna Today we pass through the countryside of Western Trans-danubia as we travel by coach to Vienna. En route we visit Szentendre, a small town packed with artisans’
We visit Vienna’s majestic Schönbrunn Palace on Day 11.
shops and a museum showcasing the work of acclaimed ceramicist Margit Kovacs. We continue on to the village of Neszmely where we stop for lunch; we reach the Austrian capital late this afternoon. Dinner tonight is on our own, an opportunity, perhaps, to try Vienna’s famed Wiener Schnitzel. B,L
Day 11: Vienna A half-day tour of this jewel of the Habsburg Empire includes a visit to the ornate Vienna Opera House, one of Europe’s grandest; and an inside visit to majestic Schönbrunn Palace. The afternoon is at leisure. Following dinner at a local restaurant, we attend a concert of classical music in this most musical of all cities. B,D
Day 12: Vienna Woods This morning we enjoy a tour of the Vienna Woods, which gained renown
September 8-11, 2021
Berlin – On Your Own4 days/3 nights for $995 total price
Single Supplement: $395
Explore the cosmopolitan German capital – a city of art, culture, and
history – as you wish.
Your Tour Price Includes
• Rail transportation Prague/Berlin• 3 nights’ accommodations at Hotel am Steinplatz
(Superior First Class)• 3 meals: 3 breakfasts• Transfer from rail station and to airport
Post-Tour Extension
during the heyday of the Austrian Empire. We visit the medieval abbey of Heiligenkreuz and the health spa town of Baden-Baden before returning to Vienna, where the remainder of the day is free to explore as we wish. B
Day 13: Vienna/Prague Mid-morning we depart for Prague, proud capital of the Czech Republic, filled with art, medieval architecture, historic churches, and cobblestone streets. We stop for lunch en route and arrive in Prague late afternoon, where we join our tour director for an informal walk through Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. B,L
Day 14: Prague We spend the morning exploring the Hradcany (castle) district, home of the distinctive castle towering above the Vltava River. Dating to the 9th century, the castle today is the seat of the president of the Czech Republic. Among the highlights of our tour: a visit to Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral and a stroll along Golden Lane, with its picturesque artisans’ cot-tages. The remainder of the day is free to continue
exploring this enchanting city as we wish. B
Day 15: Prague This morning’s visit to Josefov, Prague’s historic Jewish ghetto, includes the Old Jewish Cemetery with its centuries-old headstones and generations buried atop one another, as well as several of the once-thriving syna-gogues now part of
the Jewish Museum of Prague. Then the remainder of the day is at leisure. Tonight we enjoy a farewell dinner at a local restaurant. B,D
Day 16: Depart for U.S. We transfer to the airport early today for our connecting flights to the U.S. B
Your Tour Price Includes• Round-trip air transportation from listed cities• 14 nights’ accommodations in Deluxe, Superior
First Class, and unrated hotels • 24 meals: 14 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 6 dinners• Extensive sightseeing as described, including all
entrance fees• Services of an Odysseys Unlimited Tour Director• Private motorcoach transportation throughout
your trip• Luggage handling for one bag per person• Gratuities for local guides, dining room servers,
airport and hotel porters, and all drivers
Tour Departs: August 24, 2021Prices include int’l airfare and all taxes, surcharges, and fees.
Boston, New York $4,897
Philadelphia, Washington, DC $5,097
Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati,
$5,197
Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Orlando, Tampa
Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis,
$5,297 Phoenix, Portland (OR), San Francisco, Seattle
Land Only (transfers not included) $4,195
Please call if your city is not listed. Prices are per person based on double occupancy and include airline taxes, surcharges, and fees of $502, which are subject to change until final payment is made.
Single travelers please add $1,395. Your $500 deposit is fully refundable up to 95 days before departure. All prices above (excluding airline taxes, surcharges, and fees) are guaranteed.
Airline upgrades on round-trip Trans-Atlantic flight: Business Class – $3,595 per person; Premium Economy – $1,595 per person (upgrades are subject to availability and pricing is subject to change). Upgrade costs are in addition to the costs above.
Please note: This trip involves considerable walking up hills or stairs, and on uneven or cobblestone streets. You should be in good physical condition to enjoy this tour to the fullest.
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To laugh is To live profoundly.”
– Milan Kundera
Prague’s Charles Bridge dates to 1357.
Rice Faculty HostDr. Joseph Manca is Professor of Art History and Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History at Rice University, where he has taught since 1989. He received his PhD from Columbia University, and carried out research at the
National Gallery of Art in Washington before com-ing to Rice. He teaches European and American art and architectural history from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Prof. Manca has written seven books and sixty or so articles, and recent projects include a study of Dutch seventeenth-century painting and an overview of European gardening from Renaissance Italy and later.
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c. is
una
ble
to
guar
ante
e an
y se
at a
ssig
nmen
ts.
Due
to th
e na
ture
of t
our o
pera
tor t
icke
ts, o
ther
rest
rictio
ns a
pply,
incl
udin
g, b
ut n
ot li
mite
d to
, fre
quen
t flye
r mile
age
accr
ual,
stop
over
s, a
ltern
ate
trave
l dat
es, u
pgra
des,
and
airl
ine
taxe
s an
d fe
es.
If yo
u pr
efer
to m
ake
your
ow
n tra
vel a
rran
gem
ents
, Lan
d On
ly is
ava
ilabl
e on
mos
t tou
rs.
Sin
ce i
nter
nati
onal
and
dom
esti
c ai
r sc
hedu
les
are
subj
ect
to c
hang
e at
any
tim
e, w
e re
com
men
d th
at i
f yo
u ch
oose
to
mak
e yo
ur o
wn
airlin
e re
serv
atio
ns,
you
do n
ot p
urch
ase
nonr
efun
dabl
e ti
cket
s or
tho
se w
ith
high
pen
alti
es f
or c
hang
es.
If
you
choo
se t
o m
ake
your
ow
n ai
r ar
rang
emen
ts,
the
Offi
ce o
f A
lum
ni R
elat
ions
, R
ice
Uni
vers
ity,
and
Ody
ssey
s U
nlim
ited
, In
c. s
hall
not
have
any
lia
bilit
y fo
r an
y lo
ss r
esul
ting
fr
om c
ance
llati
on o
f th
is t
our
or c
hang
es in
this
tou
r.
CO
VID
-19 H
ealt
h an
d Saf
ety
Pro
toco
ls:
The
wel
l-bei
ng o
f our
gue
sts
and
staf
f mem
bers
on
tour
will
con
tinue
to b
e ou
r hig
hest
pr
iorit
ies.
To
mai
ntai
n a
heal
thy
envi
ronm
ent f
or tr
avel
, we
will
be
esta
blis
hing
and
adh
erin
g to
a d
etai
led
set o
f hea
lth a
nd s
afet
y pr
otoc
ols
for a
ll fa
cets
of y
our t
our.
We
are
com
mitt
ed to
follo
win
g th
e gu
idel
ines
of t
he S
tate
Dep
artm
ent,
CDC,
WH
O, a
nd a
utho
ri-tie
s of
resp
ectiv
e co
untr
ies
rega
rdin
g tr
avel
to a
par
ticul
ar d
estin
atio
n. D
etai
led
prot
ocol
s fo
r thi
s to
ur, b
ased
on
cond
ition
s at
the
time,
will
be
prov
ided
app
roxi
mat
ely
90 d
ays
prio
r to
depa
rtur
e.
Offi
ce o
f Alu
mni
Rel
atio
ns –
MS
520
Rice
Uni
vers
ityP.
O. B
ox 18
92H
oust
on, T
X 77
251-1
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