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14 Day Discover Sicily & Malta 2018 Itinerary
Overview
Highlights (Bullets)
- Visit the Palatine Chapel in the Norman Palace with its interior of glittering 12th century Byzantine mosaics
- Tour the old city of Palermo, featuring an incredible mix of architectural styles
- Discover Phoenician Motya with its famous Charioteer by boat
- Visit Mazara del Vallo, with its Arabian style quarters and famous dancing Satyr
- Make your own classic pizza from fresh ingredients!
- Discover Agrigento's Valley of the Temples, the best preserved remains outside of Greece
- View the Roman Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Visit the trendy resort town of Taormina
- Ascend the lava-crusted slopes of Mt. Etna – one of the most active volcanoes in Europe!
- Discover the island of Ortigia, the historical center of the city of Siracusa
- Visit the Greek Theater and the Ear of Dionysus in the Siracusa Archaeological Park
- See the baroque jewels of Noto, Ragusa, and Scicli
- Discover the rich history of Valletta, the European Capital of Culture for 2018
- Explore the “Three Cities” Vittoriosa, Cospicua, and Senglea areas of Malta
- Marvel at the awe-inspiring megalithic Temples of Ggantija in Gozo
- Experience Maltese cuisine & hospitality during lunch in a private home
Short Description
2 Palermo, 2 Marsala Area, 1 Agrigento, 2 Ragusa, 2 Catania, 3 Sliema
Itinerary
DAY 1, Saturday - Depart for Italy DAY 2, Sunday - Arrive in Palermo DAY 3, Monday - Palatine Chapel and Palermo City Tour DAY 4, Tuesday - Segesta, Farm Lunch, Erice DAY 5, Wednesday - Mazara Kasbah Maze & Dancing Satyr, Salt Mines, and Motya Charioteer DAY 6, Thursday - Valley of Temples DAY 7, Friday - Make your own Pizza and Piazza Armerina DAY 8, Saturday - Ragusa-Ibla, Modica, Aromatic Herb & Plant Gardens, Scicli DAY 9, Sunday - Noto, Siracusa with its Neapolis & Ortigia DAY 10, Monday - Mt. Etna Summit & Taormina DAY 11, Tuesday - Arrival in Malta, Valetta Sightseeing DAY 12, Wednesday - Explore Gozo DAY 13, Thursday - Mdina & Rabat, Home-Hosted Lunch DAY 14, Friday - Depart Malta *For the Sep 15 departure, the overnight stay will be in St. Julian’s instead of Sliema. |
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14 Day Discover Sicily & Malta 2018 Itinerary
Company Reviews
GATE1 customer service is TERRIBLE.
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Great experience and value
We have been on 14 Gate1 tours to…
Best Tour Manager
If God designs tour managers, Beatrice Jakubowski is His masterpiece. Or one of His elites.
She weaves her organized, efficient, on-top-of-things, profound historicity & current statistics knowledge skills into her great sense of natural charm & humor. Translates history and current events with some hilarity that kills travel fatigue. Skilled in calming stressed tourists w/ perma-pressed smile. Amazing polyglot, she excites long rides with a new language teach-in daily with appropriate accents! Daily acknowledges driver as part of tour team. Patient, genuinely kind, beautiful mind, character, beautiful person. Gate 1 is very blessed to have Beatrice put a 5 star on travel. Love our Christmas Markets Switzerland - France Dec 4-11 tour. Too short!
Wonderful trip! No complaints at all!
In Venice and a gate 1 representative met us at the airport to get us to our water taxi to take us to our hotel.
Our tour guide, Ana, was waiting at our hotel for us as we arrived. She was amazing, well organized, and gave very good instructions, and tips as we traveled with our group! She is very knowledgeable about her country and you can really tell that she loves Italy and is proud to share it with her groups!
We had a great group and by the time our trip was over, we had all become friends. Every one of the local guides we had in Venice, Florence, Rome, Pompeii, Assisi and Almafi was fabulous as well.
The hotels were all very nice for a “value” trip. We were not expecting them to be so nice, but they were nicer than any hotels we have ever stayed in.
Having the bus, the driver, being dropped off at the front door of your hotel and at all our tours/excursions, Ana pre-checking us in and handing our our keys when we arrived at a new location, your luggage magically showing up at your hotel room— it was a dream.
They thought of everything, down to a box breakfast on our last day, to take in the car on our trip to the Naples airport because we had to leave before breakfast was served at our Sorrento hotel! Ana was in the lobby waiting for every person in our group on our last day to see us off to the airport regardless of how early we needed to leave. She made sure we had our boxed breakfast and explained where we needed to go to get to the check in area for our airline at the airport.
She was a blast! Many of the people in our group had taken SEVERAL gate 1 tours and were pleased with every experience.
The prices are very reasonable and you get to see a ton of stuff, but yet still had some free time to yourself to explore on your own.
This was an amazing experience and I still don’t know how they manage to do it so well without missing the tiniest detail.
We are already looking for our next trip to book with them!
Don and Dianna
Our experience with Gate 1 Travel was frustrating and ended up costing a lot more than the "published" price!
I talked to Customer Service several times. You could tell they were reading from a script and were of absolutely no help. I would NOT book another trip through Gate 1.
Details
Optional Activities
Flight & Transport Inclusions
All internal ground transport
Group Size
Small Group - 24 max
Additional Information
Additional Information:
Land only price does not include arrival/departure transfers, but does include flight Catania to Luqa.
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