Your Trip Includes:
Round-trip air from Phoenix
All Airlines Fuel Surcharges & Airport Taxes
9 nights at First Class hotels or similar (1 night at Kalwaria Monastery)
           ~ 3 Nights Warsaw, Novotel Centrum
           ~ 1 Night Czestowchowa, Mercure Patria
           ~ 1 Night Zakopane, Mercure Kasprowy
           ~ 1 Night Kalwaria Monastery
           ~ 3 Nights Krakow, Hotel Royal
Breakfast and Dinner daily, with meals inclusive of coffee, tea and
mineral water
Welcome dinner in Warsaw, 3 Dinners in Krakow in local restaurants,
2 dinners inclusive of wine or beer
Professional Tour Escort
Transportation by air-conditioned motor coach
Assistance of professional local Catholic guides: Full Day in
Warsaw, Half Day in Krakow, Czestochowa, Wieliczka, Auschwitz
Sightseeing and admissions fees: St. Mary church (Mariacki Church), Wawel Cathedral, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Cable Car Gubalowka, Auschwitz listening devices / PJPII house exhibition in Wadowice, Franciscan Church in Krakow
Mass daily, Including Mass of Thanksgiving for John Paull II Beatification, with Papal Indulgence
Luggage handling (1 piece per person)

Flight bag & portfolio of all travel documents

Not Included:
3.5% Credit card processing fee. Lunches. Beverages not mentioned. Travel Insurance optional at $169 (www.206tours.com/insurance). Extended Cancellation Protection Plan at additional cost of $199 per person (www.206tours.com/cancellationprotection). Tips to your guide & driver ($7-9 per day). Items of a personal nature.

Day 1, May 7, Departure from Phoenix
Departure for our overnight flights to Poland.


Day 2, May 8, Arrive Warsaw
Your tour director is at the airport to greet you and soon you're comfortably settled at your hotel. Upon arrival and time permitting Mass at St. James Church, the church St. Faustina went when she arrived in Warsaw. Relax for the balance of the day. This evening enjoy dinner and a restful overnight.


Day 3, May 9, Warsaw
After breakfast we visit all the landmarks of Warsaw: Old Town, Market Square, the Barbican, the Warsaw Ghetto monument, Lazeinki Park, the Chopin statue, and the magnificently restored Royal Castle (Exterior visit). Visit and Mass at Visit 3-9 Zytnia Street where Faustina entered the convent. Welcome Dinner at Local restaurant, Chopskie Jadlo or similar. Overnight in Warsaw.


Day 4, May 10, Warsaw - Plock - Niepokolanow - Warsaw
Breakfast at your hotel. Depart hotel for visit of Plock. It was in this city, in the convent in Stary Rynek that an event of historic importance to the Divine Mercy worship took place: the first revelation of the Merciful Jesus, which started Sister Faustina's public mission. She wrote about this in her 'Diary': 'In the evening, when I was in my cell, I saw the Lord Jesus clothed in a white garment. One hand [was] raised in the gesture of blessing, the other was touching the garment at the breast. From beneath the garment, slightly drawn aside at the breast, there were emanating two large rays, one red, the other pale. In silence I kept my gaze fixed on the Lord; my soul was struck with awe, but also with great joy. After a while, Jesus said to me: "Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You. I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and [then] throughout the world. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over [its] enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory"' (Diary 47-48) We visit the Convent of Divine Mercy "Guardian Angel Institute" where St Faustina had her first revelation, we will also visit the museum dedicated to St Faustina. Mass at the Shrine. Lunch on your own with some free time at the town - perhaps to buy some baked cookies at local bakery, recalling St Faustina's working at the convent bakery shop selling some of these goodies. On our return to Warsaw stop at the Immaculate city of Niepokolanow built by Fr Maximilian Kolbe . Guided tour of the complex. Dinner and overnight in Warsaw.


Day 5, May 11, Warsaw - Swinice Warckie - Czestochowa
After breakfast, we travel to Czestochowa, with a stop at Swinice Warckie to visit the parish church St. Casimir where St. Faustina was baptized Helen Kowalska. Continue to our next stop is the site of Poland's greatest pilgrimage shrine, Our Lady of Czestochowa. Mass and Visit Jasna Gora Monastery with the Black Madonna picture. One of the most important places of religious worship in the Christian world, with tradition of pilgrimages that goes back to the 14th century. Our Holy Father has frequently visited Jasna Gorna Monastery, known as the Shrine of the Black Madonna. We will tour the Solidarity Museum and then celebrate Mass at the Pauline Monastery and venerate the priceless treasures contained within, including the Miraculous Icon. Dinner and overnight in Czestochowa.


Day 6, May 12, Czestochowa - Auschwitz - Zakopane
Breakfast at your hotel prior to departing for Auschwitz-Birkenau the notorious Nazi Extermination Camp. We will see the cell that imprisoned St. Maximillian Kolbe and the Martyrdom Museum recalling the horrors of the Holocaust. Mass at the Franciscan Monastery dedicated to St Maximilian Kolbe in the village of Harmeze near Auschwitz. Lunch on your own. Afterward we will depart for Zakopane, and upon arrival take a tour of Zakopane, and a Gondola to Mt Gulbalowka for a magnificent view of the city and the Tatras. Dinner at Czarki Jar restaurant (or similar) with highlander dance. Overnight Zakopane.


Day 7, May 13, Zakopane - Wadowice - Kalwaria
Breakfast at your hotel. Mass at Fatima Church built by the Mountaineers in gratitude to the Blessed Mother for saving the life of PJPII from assassination attempt. We'll depart for Wadowice, the home town and birth place of Pope John Paul II. We'll visit the town and see the local church and the Pope's birthplace. Lunch and some free time on your own prior to our departure for Kalwaria Zerbrzydowska, known as Poland’s Jerusalem is a 25 mile aquare place of Pilgrimage since 1602, when Muslims occupied Holy Land. It includes Basilica, Pilgrims Houses, Restaurants, Franciscan Monastery and Seminary and a Miraculous Image of Mary. Also features “Avenues” a total of 54 stations representing the Way of the Cross, Mary’s Life and Souls in Purgatory. These Stations and the Basilica were built by the family of Michal Zebrzydowska, over three generations, and donated to the Church. Some stations serve as Parish churches for nearby residents. English speaking Brother leads us on a tour of grounds and a short walk of part of the “Avenues”. Kremowka Papieski (Pope’s Cream Cake) available. Dinner and overnight at the Pilgrim’s House. Kalwaria Zebrzydowska was very dear to Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed him as venerable here in 2006 opening his ‘Cause’. Unique venue very popular with Polish Catholics, rarely discovered by American Pilgrims.


Day 8, May 14, Kalwaria - Wieliczka - Krakow
After breakfast, we will depart from the Pilgrimage House and attend Mass at Kalwaria. Afterward we will depart for Wieliczka and upon arrival have a guided tour of Wieliczka Salt Mines. Lunch on your own prior to departing for Krakow. We'll enjoy a tour of Krakow to incude St Peter and Paul Church into the Jagellonian University Courtyard (exterior visit), then through the Planty gardens and the gate of the stately Bishops Palace at 3 Franciszkanska street, whose ample first floor rooms were home to His Eminence Cardinal Karol Wojtyla between 163 and 1978. Previously he had lived in the palace as a seminarist through 1945 and was ordained in its chapel on All Saints Day AD 1946. In October 1978 Cardinal Wojtyla left for Rome to participate in the conclave, which elected him the Pope. In the ensuing year he visited his native Krakow for the first time as John Paul II, staying again briefly in the Bishop's Palace. In the palatial courtyeard one can see his statue. We'll continue on to visit the Franciscan church and glass windows. We'll continue on to the Market square visiting Mariacki Church with its famous Wit Stwosz wooden altar, attend the opening of the Altar followed by the call from the Hejnal. Lunch on your own with some free time at the square, visiting the Bazaar at Skuienice Gothic Structure. Free time at the Market Square prior to hotel check in. Dinner & overnight in Krakow.


Day 9, May 15, Krakow - Pm Divine Mercy Shrine - PJPII Center - Krakow
Breakfast at your hotel. We'll enjoy a tour of Krakow to include the Royal city of Krakow and a visit to the Dominican Trinity Church. This Cathedral to include the crypts of St Leonard's where PJPII celebrated his first mass, then walk along the splendid Kanonicza street where PJPII resided at the "Deanery house" from 1951 - 1958, (your visit will include the Archdiocese Museum). We'll proceed to visit the centre at the "white sands" where we will have the opportunity to pray before the relic of Pope John Paul II. We'll continue to the Divine Mercy Centre, and enjoy a guided tour of the Shrine. Free time for Meditation, prayer and personal activities before returning to Krakow for dinner and overnight.


Day 10, May 16, Krakow - Free Day
Enjoy a free day on your own in Krakow. Your guide will suggest independent or group activities for you.


Day 11, May 17, Return to Phoenix
We leave Krakow for the return flights home or continue on to our next destination city.

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Tatra Mountains Zakopane, Poland		Main Square Krakow, Poland
Wieliczka Salt Mines Krakow, Poland		Pope John Paul II Statue Shrine of Divine Mercy Lagiewniki, Poland

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