- Board your flight Depart Australia and begin your journey to France, a country full of culture, rich with history and filled with world-famous landmarks.
Language Immersion: Montpellier & Paris
Begin your language immersion adventure in Paris, before travelling to Montpellier aboard the TGV high-speed train. Over the next four days, boost your French skills with four intensive 4-hour language lessons, all while experiencing the vibrant culture and charm of this southern city. Return to Paris for guided sightseeing, a breathtaking ascent of the Eiffel Tower, a classic French cinema…
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Language Immersion: Montpellier & Paris
Begin your language immersion adventure in Paris, before travelling to Montpellier aboard the TGV high-speed train. Over the next four days, boost your French skills with four intensive 4-hour language lessons, all while experiencing the vibrant culture and charm of this southern city. Return to Paris for guided sightseeing, a breathtaking ascent of the Eiffel Tower, a classic French cinema…
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Destinations
MontpellierVersaillesParis
Your Adventure
- Meet your tour director and check into hotel
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Paris city walk
Île de la Cité, Notre Dame Cathedral, Île St. Louis, Latin Quarter
Stroll grand boulevards with sweeping views of the city, pristine parks with trees planted in perfect rows, and narrow streets crowded with vendors selling flowers, pastries and cheese. Then head to the Île de la Cité, a small island in the Seine, to see Notre Dame Cathedral. - Dinner in the Latin Quarter
- Travel to Montpellier on the TGV
- 4-hour French language lesson
- French cooking class with dinner
- 4-hour French language lesson
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Nimes excursion
Nîmes amphitheater visit, Calligraphy class
Feel the power of ancient Rome at Arènes de Nîmes, one of the best-preserved amphitheaters in the world. Climb its stone steps, explore grand corridors, and imagine the thunder of 24,000 voices echoing through this timeless arena.
- 4-hour French language lesson
- Grand Motte Beach visit
- 4-hour French language lesson
- Travel to Paris on the TGV
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Montmartre tour director-led sightseeing
Sacré Coeur, Place du Tertre, Moulin Rouge
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! - 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.
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Paris guided sightseeing tour
Arc de Triomphe, Champs Élysées, Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, Opera House
What's that huge white arch at the end of the Champs-Élysées? The Arc de Triomphe, commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 after his victory at Austerlitz. Your licensed local guide will elaborate on this, and other Parisian landmarks. See some of the most famous sites, including the ornate 19th-century Opera, the Presidential residence and the Place de la Concorde, where in the center you’ll find the Obelisk of Luxor, a gift from Egypt in 1836. Spot chic locals (and tons of tourists) strolling the Champs-Élysées. Look up at the iron girders of the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 World's Fair to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution. See Les Invalides (a refuge for war wounded) and the École Militaire (Napoleon's alma mater). -
Versailles guided excursion
State Apartments, Hall of Mirrors, Gardens of Versailles
The ultimate palace, Versailles was built by Louis XIII, and housed the royal family and its groveling court from 1682, when Louis XIV the Sun King moved in, to the French Revolution. Everything in Versailles is worth a look, from the 250-foot-long Hall of Mirrors, with themed salons- "war" and "peace" -on either side, to Marie Antoinette's faux country hamlet. When being a queen became too much to bear, she would pretend to be a commoner, tending her sheep and wearing peasant clothes. (Please note Versailles is closed on Mondays).
- Louvre Museum 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).
- French cinema experience Immerse yourself in French cinema with a special screening at a Parisian theater. Enjoy an authentic French film, presented in its original language with English subtitles. Before the screening, take part in an engaging introduction to French cinema, featuring a discussion and interactive quiz to deepen your appreciation of this rich cinematic tradition.
- Theatre performance en français Step foot into a magnificent Parisian theatre and join locals for a spectacular French play or musical and for those not quite fluent enough, English subtitles running above stage will allow you to follow the play with ease.
