The overwhelming majority of American history and culture finds its roots in Great Britain and Ireland. Their people were among the first waves of immigrants to reach the New World, transforming colonial outposts such as Boston and New York into teeming cities that remain our nation’s hubs of commerce and enterprise. It only seems logical, then, that so many Americans of Irish and British heritage would want to return to the homelands of their forefathers.

From Stone Blocks to Gold Records

When looking to book passage across the once-treacherous Atlantic, most vacationers find that the Contiki Great Britain and Ireland tour packages provide them with the greatest ease and convenience. Some will drink in the exhilarating mysteries of Stonehenge. Others will revel in Contiki’s Magical Mystery Beatles Tour in the Fab Four’s hometown of Liverpool. The Roman city of Bath rounds out a myriad experience that has no match – and that’s just the beginning.

You Take The High Road; I’ll Take the Low Road

After a trip to Edinburgh, where history was drawn into the soil with blood-tipped swords, Contiki takes you to the Scottish Highlands. There, you can sip on the whisky, peruse the Birthplace of Golf (St. Andrews) or take an exciting cruise on the hallowed surface of Loch Ness. In the Western swing of the Highlands, you’ll stare up at the gothic cathedrals of Glasgow, or bow your head humbly before the monument to William Wallace.

The trip ends in Ireland, where you’ll be lucky if you don’t wipe the whole thing from your memory, as many pints of Guinness are sure to flow. In between Dublin and Londonderry, you’ll bear witness to the Giant’s Causeway, a natural formation of 40,000 rock packed together in columns measuring over 36 feet. All of the sights will combine to form a panoramic question in your mind when it comes to those first brave souls that came to America: How could they have left all of this behind?

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