Rajah Travel Corporation

Td Tips

• Prepaid Gratuities E990 Small Group

Gold Seal Protection

• Gold Seal Protection

Transfer Airport

• DEP Chargeable Tfr Island or Lido to Venice Apt

• DEP Transfer Island or Lido to Venice Airport

• ARR Chargeable Transfer Zagreb Airport to Hotel

• Arrival Transfer Zagreb Airport to Hotel

Dining Summary

• 4 Dinner (D)
• 9 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

Choice Highlights

• Choose between two carefully selected activities
• Lake Bled: Board a traditional wooden pletna boat and cross Lake Bled to its island. Climb the steps to the 15th-century Church of the Assumption and ring its “wishing bell”, linked to a local legend that those who sound it three times may have their wish granted.
• Lake Bled: Visit Vila Bled, once a presidential residence set among lakeside gardens. Sit on the terrace overlooking Lake Bled and sample kremšnita, the local cream slice created here in the mid-20th century, served with coffee as you look across to the island and surrounding hills.

Additional Included Highlights

• Personal radio headsets give you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights, without missing any of your Local Expert's fascinating commentary.
• Hotel and restaurant tips are included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. We also include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.
• We carry your bags for you and promptly deliver them to your hotel door.
• From time to time, your Travel Director will delight you with an Insight Flourish, which is a local specialty representing the destination.
• Stay connected with friends and family with our complimentary coach and hotel Wi-Fi (where available).
• If your arrival and/or departure flights are as per the itinerary start and end dates, then transfers are available at scheduled times. If your flights are outside these times, or you have booked additional nights accommodation with Insight Vacations, you may purchase transfers or make your own way from/to the airport.

Authentic Dining

Krk: Savour a Farm-to-Table lunch at a family-owned winery, where locally sourced ingredients highlight the island’s culinary traditions, paired with Krk’s signature Žlahtina wine.

Insight Choice

• Choose between two experiences at Lake Bled.
• Lake Bled: Board a traditional wooden pletna boat and cross Lake Bled to its island. Climb the steps to the 15th-century Church of the Assumption and ring its “wishing bell”, linked to a local legend that those who sound it three times may have their wish granted.
• Lake Bled: Visit Vila Bled, once a presidential residence set among lakeside gardens. Sit on the terrace overlooking Lake Bled and sample kremšnita, the local cream slice created here in the mid-20th century, served with coffee as you look across to the island and surrounding hills.

Make Travel Matter

• Ljubljana: Meet inspiring individuals at Sonček – Cerebral Palsy Association of Slovenia, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering adults with disabilities through meaningful employment and community integration. Learn how their Care and Work Centre provides guidance, care and adapted jobs, allowing members to create handcrafted souvenirs, artwork and other unique items. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities.
• Venice: Visit a traditional glass workshop on Murano and observe master glassmakers at work, using techniques passed down since the 15th century. See how molten glass is shaped into finished pieces and learn about the history of the craft on the island. Each visit supports the workshop’s role in preserving local skills and sustaining this heritage industry. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Summary

• Travel by funicular in Zagreb • Enjoy a gondola serenade in Venice
• Visit Postojna Caves • Pula Arena
• City tours of Zagreb, Ljubljana, Krk, all with Local Experts.
• Welcome Dinner in Zagreb • Farm-to-Table Lunch in Krk • Celebration Dinner in Venice

Top Rated Highlights

• Zagreb: Walk with your Local Expert from the 19th-century parks and facades of the Lower Town towards the older streets around the main square. Along the way, you’ll see key buildings such as the Art Pavilion and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, setting out the city’s main landmarks.
• Zagreb: Ride Zagreb’s funicular, in operation since 1890 and often cited as one of the world’s shortest public-transport funiculars. The 66 m (217 ft) line links Ilica Street with the Upper Town in around a minute, giving an immediate sense of the change from the commercial Lower Town to the old fortified ridge.
• Ljubljana: Join a walking tour with a Local Expert, following riverbanks and squares towards key landmarks. See Ljubljana Castle on its hilltop, City Hall on Mestni trg, the Baroque cathedral dedicated to St. Nicholas and Plečnik’s Triple Bridge spanning the Ljubljanica, setting out the main civic and religious centres of the city.
• Postojna Cave: Explore Postojna Cave, a karst system with more than 20 kilometres of surveyed passages and one of the first caves in Europe to introduce an underground railway in the 19th century. Inside, discover the cave’s role in karst research and spot endemic species such as the proteus, or “olm”, that live in these underground waters.
• Krk: Explore Krk with your Local Expert, tracing its development from Roman settlement to medieval stronghold. Walk through the walled old town, note traces of Venetian rule in the stone facades and lanes, and visit St. Mary’s Cathedral and Frankopan Castle, once the seat of a prominent Croatian noble family.
• Pula: Visit one of the largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheatres still standing, built in the 1st century CE under Emperor Augustus. You’ll stand inside a structure that once held around 20,000 spectators for gladiatorial games and public events, with the outer walls and tiers still clearly defined.
• Venice: Travel by boat along the Giudecca Canal as your Travel Director gives an orientation to Venice. Pass 13th to 18th-century palazzi, the Doge’s Palace and St. Mark’s Square, an iconic introduction to the city from the water.
• Venice: Take a ride in a traditional gondola, the flat-bottomed boat that once served as everyday transport in Venice. In the 17th century thousands were registered; today a few hundred remain under strict licensing rules. As the gondolier steers through side canals and under low bridges, the working scale of Venice’s historic waterways becomes clear.

Well-being

• Enjoy the comfort of Insight's luxurious, air-conditioned, 40-seat coach with double the standard legroom and onboard washroom. Our customized luxury coaches are sanitized before the start of your tour and are maintained to very high standards. Physical distancing measures have been implemented on our customized luxury coaches.
• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

• Sheraton Zagreb
• Exe Lev Ljubljana
• Hilton Rijeka Costabella Beach Resort and Spa
• Park Plaza Histria
• Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal, Venice.

Welcome to Zagreb, Croatia’s vibrant capital. Meet your Travel Director and fellow travellers before enjoying dinner, the perfect start to your journey across the shores of the Northern Adriatic and beyond.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Sheraton Zagreb

Uncover the rich history of Zagreb with your Local Expert, exploring Croatia’s two-tiered capital. Admire the Art Pavilion, originally constructed in Budapest in 1896 and later transformed in Viennese Art Nouveau style. Stroll past the Academy of Sciences and Arts and through Zrinjevac Park before riding the world’s shortest funicular, just 66 m (217 ft) long, to St Mark’s Church, famous for its vibrant tiled roof. See Lotrščak Tower, once guarding the city’s southern gate, where a cannon has marked midday since 1877. Continue to Ljubljana for a walking tour to explore Slovenia’s capital city. Visit the Sonček Association for a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience where artists with cerebral palsy craft unique Slovenian souvenirs. This inspiring visit offers the chance to support their work and learn about the association’s impact. Later, enjoy a dinner of local Slovenian specialities.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Exe Lev Ljubljana

This morning’s Insight Choice experiences will see you exploring Lake Bled according to your tastes. You can glide across the water on a traditional pletna boat to Bled Island and climb the 99 steps to the Church of the Mother of God to ring the legendary Wishing Bell. Alternatively, visit Vila Bled, once a retreat for Josip Broz Tito, and savour kremšnita cream cake with coffee on the lake-view terrace. Enjoy time at leisure in Bled, or venture further into the Julian Alps to nearby Lake Bohinj. Return to Ljubljana for an afternoon at leisure and perhaps join an Optional Experience to Pr’ Krač for a traditional dinner showcasing Slovenia’s rural heritage.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Exe Lev Ljubljana

Begin your day delving deep beneath Slovenia’s surface as you travel by underground train through the Postojna Caves. With its cathedral-like chambers and peculiar rock formations, this natural wonder is also home to the world's only underground post office. Cross into Croatia to your resort hotel on the Rijeka coast, surrounded by the scenery of Risnjak National Park and Učka Nature Park  This evening, you may wish to join an Optional Experience to Opatija, a refined coastal resort favoured by Austro-Hungarian royalty, to savour local specialities in a setting steeped in imperial grandeur.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Hilton Rijeka Costabella Beach Resort and Spa

Enjoy a Relaxed Start before venturing to Krk, one of the oldest inhabited islands in the Adriatic. Explore the walled city alongside your Local Expert, who will share stories of its layered past. Visit St. Mary's Cathedral, admire the 16th-century bell tower and see the formidable Frankopan Castle, once home to one of Croatia’s most influential noble families. Later, savour a Farm-to-Table lunch at a family-owned winery. Here, you'll discover the island's deep-rooted viticultural traditions while sampling dishes crafted with local ingredients and paired with wines found nowhere else in the world. Return to Rijeka for a leisurely evening to unwind at your own pace.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Hilton Rijeka Costabella Beach Resort and Spa

Spend your morning in picture-perfect Rovinj, a coastal gem of pastel facades and cobbled lanes. You’re free to stroll its charming streets, perhaps browsing local boutiques or enjoying fresh Adriatic seafood paired with crisp Istrian wine beside the water’s edge. Continue south to Pula, capital of the Istrian Peninsula, known for its Roman legacy and lively Mediterranean atmosphere.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Park Plaza Histria

Join a Local Expert to uncover Pula’s layered history, beginning at the Pula Arena: one of the largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheatres still standing. Built in the 1st century CE under Emperor Augustus, it could seat up to 20,000 spectators and was once the site of gladiatorial contests. Continue exploring the city’s key sites, gaining insights into its role as a strategic port through Roman, medieval and Austro-Hungarian eras.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Park Plaza Histria

Start your day in Piran, a medieval gem on the Gulf of Trieste, where elegant Venetian architecture and traces of Austro-Hungarian heritage meet along narrow, sea-scented lanes. Stroll past pastel facades to the central Tartini Square, named for the town’s celebrated violinist and composer, or take in sweeping Adriatic views from the old town walls, once a defence against Ottoman raids. After time at leisure to explore, travel across the fertile Venetian Plain, a landscape shaped by centuries of trade and agriculture, to reach Venice - the fabled Queen of the Adriatic.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal, Venice.

See Venice’s age-old traditions come to life as you watch master artisans demonstrate the delicate craft of Murano glassblowing. Then, experience the city as it was meant to be seen, by gliding through its labyrinth of canals on a traditional gondola. This evening, come together for a final dinner, celebrating your journey in this extraordinary floating city.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal, Venice.

Your journey from Zagreb to Venice is at an end, say arrivederci to your Travel Director and newfound connections. Your departure transfer arrives at Venice Marco Polo Airport.

Duration: 1 Day