Itinerary: The 29 day in-depth historical and agricultural tour covers ancient Athens, the ruins at Olympia, Delphi one of the most stunning archaeological sites in the world, Larissa, Meteora with its amazing monasteries incredibly perched on the tops of pinnacles of rocks, Thessaloniki a glorious Byzantine city, Santorini the most spectacular of the Greek islands, Crete the largest and southern most island separating the Aegean and Libyan seas that divides Europe from Asia Minor and Rhodes with its cobbled streets, a legacy from the Knights of St. John in Crusader times. In Turkey the tour covers Marmaris a delightful seaside town, Pamukkale with its cascading hot springs, Kusadasi, Ephusus one of the world’s finest Greco-Roman cities, Izmir, the legendary city of Troy, Canakkale, the battlefields of Gallipoli and Istanbul, that changed its name from Constantinople in the year 330, where you can still hear the call to prayer resound through the streets.
Highlights: As with all Australian Farmers Tours we’ll get off the tourist track visiting, sheep, beef, dairying and cropping properties. Apart from these valuable on-farm inspections a variety of technical visits and experimental farms are also included. The tour has been designed as a business trip, which may qualify as a tax-deductible expense. However, it is not all work and no play and the tour also includes plenty of leisure time for shopping and unforgettable sightseeing in both countries to provide a well rounded itinerary travelling at a most relaxing pace.
Tour Cost: The cost is fully inclusive of all breakfasts, 9 lunches and 24 dinners and utilises the services of Singapore Airlines. Tour members have the added attraction with the option of stopping over on the way home in Dubai, for an Arabian experience, and or Singapore a duty free paradise.
Tour Leader: Bevan Jolly Elders Stud Stock NSW, Dubbo based has previously led Australian Farmers Tours to Canada & USA, New Zealand, around Australia and twice to Great Britain & Ireland and Europe when he was with Victorian Producers’ (VPC) in Echuca and later based in Horsham servicing the needs of stock clients in the Wimmera-Mallee regions of Victoria. Since relocating to Dubbo, NSW with Elders he toured South Africa, in a private capacity with Elders clients, visiting sheep studs as well as undertaking a European woolgrowers tour as Elders representative at the 6th World Merino Conference held in Budapest, Hungary. Bevan has a wealth of knowledge gained as a Stock & Station Agent and is well known and liked throughout rural NSW and Victoria. Bevan will be accompanied on tour by his wife Rheta also an avid traveller.
About Us: Australian Farmers Travel registered in Victoria and owned and operated by Andrew Curry, commenced in 1973 as a service to primary producers and shareholders of the then major rural co-operatives Victorian Producers’ (now Elders), Westralian Farmers (now AWB Landmark), Primaries (now Elders), Gippsland and Northern, Bennetts Farmers and Farmers & Graziers. Our tours offer the chance to see how farming is practised worldwide and also provide a sense of fellowship and a chance to meet other farm families from all over Australia. Friendships formed on an Australian Farmers Tour often last a lifetime. |
