Your trip includes
- Airport taxes & fuel surcharges
- Hotel accommodations (or similar) in double occupancy
- - 7 Nights: June 20 - 27: Ivan Dragicevic's family home, Medjugorje
- Breakfast and dinner Daily in Medjugorje
- Wine with dinners
- Transportation by air-conditioned motor coach
- Assistance of local guide throughout
- Transfers as per itinerary
- Sightseeing and admissions fees as per itinerary
- Catholic Priest, Mass daily & Spiritual activities
- Luggage handling (1 piece per person)
Not included
- Lunches, Beverages unless mentioned, Tips to your guide & driver.
Itinerary
Day 1, Tuesday, June 19 Depart USA, Tampa for your flight to Medjugorje
Make your way to your local airport, where you will board your overnight flight. Your meals will be served on board.
Day 2, Wednesday, June 20 - Medjugorje:
Upon arrival in Europe, change gates to board your short connection flight to either: Dubrovnik, Split, or Sarajevo airport. Upon arrival, collect your luggage in the baggage claim area, and continue to the arrival's hall, where you will be greeted by a tour guide and/or driver, who will take you on the 2.5 hour drive to the village of Medjugorje. Once there, you will meet your fellow pilgrims and be introduced to Ivan Dragicevic and your place of residence for the next 7 days.
Day 3 - 8, Thursday - Sunday, June 21 - 26 - Medjugorje:
During your stay in Medjugorje, you will have the opportunity to share faith with pilgrims from all over the world. Here are some of the activities you will enjoy. After daily breakfast and prayer service in Ivan's Chapel, you can walk through the grape fields to St. James Church to attend the English language mass at 10 a.m. Climb Apparition Hill, where the visionaries first encountered Our Lady and visit and pray at the "Blue Cross" which is a place of great healings and graces - a very special place at the base of Apparition Hill. You will have the opportunity to climb Krizevac Mountain where in 1933, the villagers built a 30' high cross on the anniversary of Jesus crucifixion. Visit the community of Cenacolo and Mother's Village a place created by Fr. Slavko for orphaned children from the war. Dinner will be at Ivan's place and every evening we will say the Rosary with Ivan in his Chapel and be present for the apparition at 5:40 p.m. Religious articles will be blessed and following the apparition, you will hear Our Lady's Message given to Ivan that day. On Thursdays and Saturdays, there will be Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and on Friday, Veneration of the Cross. Confessions are held daily at St. James Church and there is plenty of free time to enjoy the beauty and peace of this sacred place and the village known around the world as Medjugorje.
Day 9, Monday, June 27: Return Home
After an early breakfast and heartfelt farewells, transfer to Dubrovnik, Split or Sarajevo Airport for your return flights home.