Language Immersion: Paris

Lanugage Immersion: Paris| Explorica Educational Travel
Parlez-vous français? What better way to improve your French than with an immersion program in Paris? New themes each day and opportunities to practice what you've learned with the locals will take your French to a whole new level in no time.
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Day 1 Overnight flight to France (Paris)
Day 2 Bonjour Paris (must depart North America on a Saturday)
Montmartre tour director-led sightseeing
Sacré CoeurPlace du TertreMoulin Rouge
Dinner in Montmartre
Details: Meet your tour director and check into hotel
Your 24-hour Tour Director will meet you at the airport and remain with your group until your final airport departure. You’ll also have a private coach and driver while touring .
Details: Montmartre tour director-led sightseeing
If you’re coming to Paris, you absolutely need to take a walk in Montmartre! This area will wake the artist in you up. Its narrow alleys, windmills, little details, and soul are some of the things that make Montmartre so unique. As you walk in Montmartre, you will quickly understand how it has inspired so many artists such as Picasso and Van Gogh. As you walk up the hill make sure to take in all that surrounds you, because in Montmartre you are likely to find surprises around every corner!
Day 3 Parisian History
Dinner in Latin Quarter
Details: Conversational French language class
Prepare for an afternoon of immersive activities with a three-hour conversation class focusing on a new theme each day!
Details: Eiffel Tower ascent
Line up to climb to the top floor of this iconic landmark for a spectacular birds-eye view of the glittering City of Light.
Details: Seine River cruise
See the city from the water on an hour-long cruise along the River Seine. The Seine cuts right through Paris, dividing the city in half. See the Eiffel tower rising up on the Left Bank, the walls of the Louvre on the Right Bank. A guide will point out other monuments and architectural marvels as you pass, many of which are illuminated by clear white light at night.
Details: Île de la Cité treasure hunt
Take interactive learning to another level with a Tour Director-led treasure hunt of the Ile de la Cité, home of Notre-Dame Cathedral! Enjoy an after-dinner adventure, complete exciting activities and solve fun clues. Each clue and every activity is built to maximize on-tour experiential learning.
Day 4 French Culture
Details: Conversational French language class
Prepare for an afternoon of immersive activities with a three-hour conversation class focusing on a new theme each day!
Details: Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte visit and etiquette workshop
Step into French high society for a day with a visit to this Baroque château in Maincy, the largest private estate listed as a Historic Monument in France. Said to be the inspiration for Versailles, the Chateau is known for its ornate 17th century decorations and formal gardens. On your excursion, you'll learn all about French dining etiquette, formal table-setting, and the expectations for behavior at a formal soirée!
Details: Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte visit
Step into French high society for a day with a visit to this Baroque château in Maincy, the largest private estate listed as a Historic Monument in France. Said to be the inspiration for Versailles, the Chateau is known for its ornate 17th century decorations and formal gardens.
Details: Etiquette Workshop at the Chateau
Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte was known in the past for its exceptional feasts. Learn about French gastronomy while formally experiencing how to welcome guests, the art of the table, manners, and dress code.
Day 5 French Art
Louvre scavenger hunt
Details: Conversational French language class
Prepare for an afternoon of immersive activities with a three-hour conversation class focusing on a new theme each day!
Details: Louvre visit
The world's largest art museum, the Louvre is housed in a Medieval fortress-turned-castle so grand it's worth a tour itself. You walk through the 71-foot glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei and added in 1989, and step into another world--one with carved ceilings, deep-set windows, and so many architectural details you could spend a week just admiring the rooms. The Mona Lisa is here, as well as the Venus de Milo and Winged Victory (the headless statue, circa 200 BC, discovered at Samothrace). The Louvre has seven different departments of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and antiquities. Don't miss the Egyptian collection, complete with creepy sarcophagi, or the collection of Greek ceramics, one of the largest in the world. (Please note the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays.)
Day 6 French Gastronomy
Details: Guided neighborhood foodie tour
Get a taste of Parisian gastronomie. Join a local guide for a tour of a neighborhood chocolate or cheese shop, where sampling is a must!
Details: Conversational French language class
Prepare for an afternoon of immersive activities with a three-hour conversation class focusing on a new theme each day!
Details: Cooking class and dinner
Embark on a culinary adventure! In this workshop, you will learn from professionals and end by eating the several French dishes you have just cooked. Bon Appétit!
Day 7 French Theatre
Details: Conversational French language class
Prepare for an afternoon of immersive activities with a three-hour conversation class focusing on a new theme each day!
Details: Workshop and theatre performance en français
Take part in a fun theatre workshop in English that includes oral expression games, icebreakers and improvisation lessons with a professional bilingual actor, your group will quickly start directing and performing small scenes in front of their classmates. After class, enjoy a play or musical performance en français in a prestigious Parisian theatre. Don’t worry, those not quite fluent enough, English surtitles running above stage will allow you to follow the play with ease
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Day 8 Flight home from Paris

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    Day 8 Start extension to London
    Details: Eurostar Chunnel crossing
    You're so close, why not continue to London? Take the Eurostar under the English Channel. Faster than you can say...anything, in French, you'll whiz through a tunnel and arrive in London.
    Details: London city walk
    Step outside your hotel for a stroll through the heart of the English-speaking world. In this city of nearly seven million, you'll see everything from 12th-century fortifications to modern skyscrapers, royal parks to street art. Your Tour Director will lead you to some of the most famous sites. Walk along the Thames River. Cross Trafalgar Square. See bustling Piccadilly Circus. Pass trendy shops and cafés in Bohemian Soho on your way to Covent Garden, a 13th-century fruit and vegetable garden transformed into a maze of narrow streets and pedestrian walkways burgeoning with street performers, open-air markets and boutiques.
    Details: Trafalgar Square
    See Trafalgar Square, often used for community gatherings and political demonstrations.
    Details: National Gallery visit
    Visit the National Gallery, which contains an unrivaled collection of Western art spanning seven centuries, from the late 13th to the early 20th. The largest portion of the collection is devoted to the Italians, including works by da Vinci, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto and Botticelli; but the collection also features works by the Spanish giants El Greco, Goya and Velázquez. The Flemish-Dutch school is represented by Brueghel, Jan van Eyck, Vermeer, Rubens and Rembrandt; and there is also an immense French impressionist and post-impressionist collection that includes works by Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir and Cézanne.
    Details: Piccadilly Circus
    Visit Piccadilly Circus, a shopping and entertainment area brightly lit with video displays and neon signs.
    Details: Covent Garden
    Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, which itself may be referred to as "Covent Garden". The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centered on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the historical buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the London Transport Museum and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
    Details: Leicester Square
    Leicester Square is perfectly situated in the heart of London's West End, with Trafalgar Square to the south, Piccadilly Circus to the west, Covent Garden to the east, and China Town to the north.
    Details: Classic fish & chips dinner
    Nothing’s more British than fish and chips—there are eight fish and chip shops (“chippies”) for every McDonald’s in the country. Head to an authentic pub with your Tour Director for a taste of this national food, generally served with malt vinegar.
    Day 9 London landmarks
    London guided sightseeing tour
    Buckingham PalaceBig BenHouses of ParliamentWestminster AbbeyTower BridgeHyde ParkSt. Paul’s Cathedral
    Details: London guided sightseeing tour
    Join a licensed local guide for an in-depth look at London, from the royal haunt of Buckingham Palace (the official London residence of King Charles III) to the slightly more democratic Speakers’ Corner of Hyde Park, where anyone can pull up a soapbox and orate to his heart’s content. You’ll see the changing of the guard (season permitting), the clock tower of Big Ben with its 14-ton bell, and Westminster Abbey, where almost every English king and queen since William the Conqueror has been crowned. After a stop at the Houses of Parliament, continue on to the magnificent St. Paul’s Cathedral, the masterpiece of London architect Christopher Wren.
    Day 10 Flight home from London
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    Tour Includes:
    • Round-trip airfare
    • 6 overnight stays (8 with extension) in hotels with private bathrooms
    • Full European breakfast daily
    • Dinner daily
    • Full-time services of a professional tour director
    • Guided sightseeing tours and city walks as per itinerary
    • Visits to select attractions as per itinerary
    • Guided sightseeing tours with high-tech headset as per itinerary
    • Seine Cruise
    • Eiffel Tower ascent
    • Language classes (15 hours)
    • High-Speed Eurostar Chunnel crossing on extension
    • Tour Diary™
    • Local Guide and Local Bus Driver tips; see note regarding other important tips
    • Note: On arrival day only dinner is provided; on departure day, only breakfast is provided
    • Note: Tour cost does not include airline-imposed baggage fees, or fees for any required passport or visa. Optional excursions, optional pre-paid Tour Director and multi-day bus driver tipping, among other individual and group customizations will be listed as separate line items in the total trip cost, if included.
    We are better able to assist you with a quote for your selected departure date and city over the phone. Please call 1.888.310.7120 to price this tour with your requested options.
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    3940.00 total fee
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