Prestige Holidays launch special interest tours

Independent luxury tour operator, Prestige Holidays, is offering 18 special interest Holidays for 2008 through tours specialist, The Travellers’ Club. New for next year are a tour to ancient and modern Libya, a trip to Jordan and Syria and an Indonesian tour taking in Bali, Central Java and Lombok.

The 18 tours range from a long weekend to one nearly a month in length and include three tours to India, one to Iran, painting holidays in France and Greece, an art and history tour of Eastern Germany and trips to Ravenna and Venice, St Petersburg and Morocco.

Packages start from £895 per person for the week’s History and Art in Eastern Germany Tour (3-10 May) including return scheduled flights, BB accommodation and guides.

The Travellers’ Club offers imaginative and comfortable holidays taken at a leisurely pace which appeal to the elderly as well as younger people. Also as travellers tend to meet before departure, single travellers have the option of sharing rooms, avoiding the cost of single supplements.

A full list of the 2008 tours:

The Heart of Central India, 4 – 31 January 2008, cost £3285 per person.
This tour takes in Mumbai, Ellora and Ajanta, Maheshwar, Mandu, Bhopal, Sanchi, Gwalior, Orcha, Khajuraho, Varanasi, Lucknow and Delhi.

Rajasthan and Moghul Indian Off the Beaten Track, 31 January – 27 February 2008, cost £2785 per person.
Dramatic forts and palaces, tombs, temples, superb scenery, wild life and a taste of the ‘real’ India

Ravenna and Venice: Byzantine & Renaissance Art, 9 – 16 March 2008, cost £985 per person.
2 nights in Ravenna, 3 in Venice, exploring Byzantine & Renaissance art and architecture.

Iran: A Persian Spring, 11 – 25 April 2008, cost £1985 per person.
Ancient Persia – modern Iran: palaces, mosques, gardens, bazaars, mountains, deserts: Shiraz, Persepolis, Kerman, Yazd, Isafahan and Teheran.

A Long Weekend in Provence, 10 – 15 April 2008, cost £975 per person.
Based in Arles, visiting Avignon, Les Beaux de Provence, the Camarge & Aigues Mortes, Nimes & Pont du Gard.

History and Art in Eastern Germany, 3 – 10 May 2008, cost £895 per person.
Staying in Berlin, Wittenberg, Erfurt and other towns and cities linked with Luther and artists of the northern Renaissance and Reformation.

Painting Holidays In France, 12 – 19 and 22 – 29 June 2008, from £1095 per person.
Stay in a medieval chateau, painting tuition plus visits to abbeys and chateaux, boating and more.

St Petersburg: Music, History, Art and Architecture, a week in June to be confirmed, cost £1045 per person.
A tour in association with the Rossica Choir of St Petersburg who will arrange special concerts, gallery and museum visits.

Aix-en-Provence Music Festival, 9-13 July 2008, cost £1295 per person.
Including opera and concert tickets, excursions.

The Peloponnese: Ancient and Byzantine Greece, 14-21 October, cost £1495 per person.
Ancient Corinth, Epidavros, Nafplio, Mystras, Kardamyli, Olympia, Stemnitsa, Mycenae.

Painting in Greece (Mani), May and September dates to be confirmed, cost £945 per person.
Stay on the Mani peninsula, painting tuition, excursions and much more.

Libya Ancient and Modern, 3 – 18 October 2008, cost £1995 per person.
Highlights include: Leptis Magna, Sabratha and Cyrene, Ptolomais, Apollonia, Tobruk, Benghazi, National Museum and old medina of Tripoli.

Ottoman Capitals: Constantinople, Bursa, Edirne, 4 – 15 October 2008, cost £1385 per person.
Much of Ancient Byzantium remains: the layout of cities, churches, cisterns. The Moslems added their magnificent mosques, palaces and fortresses.

Morocco: A Grand Tour of the South, 11 - 30 October 2008, cost £1895 per person.
Marrakech, Atlas Mountains, deserts, Kasbahs, gorges, souks; visiting Skoura, Erfoud, Zagora, Taroudant, Tafraout, Essouira.

Jordan and Syria, 24 October – 4 November 2008, cost £1685 per person.
Amman, Red Sea, Petra (the rose red city), Jarash, Bosra, Damascus, Palmyra, Krak des Chevaliers (might Crusader castle), Aleppo.

South India: Kerala and Karntaka, 14 – 30 November 2008, cost £2495 per person.
Kerala’s backwaters and hills; Cochin, Nilgiri Hills, Wildlife, Mysore’s palaces and temples, Chikmagalur hills, Hampi ancient ruins and Goa to relax.

Indonesia: Bali, Central Java and Lombok, 8 – 30 November 2008, cost £2895 per person.
Takes in Bali: beaches and hills, java: Jogyakarta, Borobudur, Prambanam, Lombok and ends in Ubud on Bali for relaxation.

For further information consult Thetravellersclub.com.