WESTERN SICILY

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On arrival, you'll be transferred to your hotel in Palermo, where you'll meet your Kaoma Travel Tour Leader and fellow travellers for a welcome dinner this evening.

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Accommodation: Grand Hotel Wagner***** or similar.

Insight the colourful Palermitan way of living

Enjoy your breakfast before depart for a half-day walking tour.

Palermo is a city that combines unmissable architecture with breathtaking landscapes, enchanting views of the sea, vivid street life, and a great choice of alfresco restaurants and bars. The walking tour is so a combining of history, local life, culture, monuments and street food.

Fall in love with the unmissable sites in this city: The Cathedrale, the Norman Palace, the Cappella Palatina, the Quattro Canti and the Pretoria fountain. Discover the secret pastry at the Santa Caterina Convent, with its ancient flavours and forgotten sweet, mixed with fragrances of incense and cinnamon.

After lunch, we'll be ready to depart for Mondello. Mondello is more than just a beach; it's an education in Sicilian custom and rituals. A long and curving beach, made of soft pale sand sloping very gently into the turquoise sea. You'll relax to the beach before a dinner in a superb restaurant specializing in local seafood, all seasoned by the sea breeze.

Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Grand Hotel Wagner***** or similar.

One of the most beautiful villages

Start your day with a smile and enjoy a wide assortment of products from the island. Taste the delights of local pastries such as the famous cassata or cannoli to be filled at the moment with fresh ricotta and other homemade baked goods including assorted croissants and a range of fragrant bread delights, from wholemeal to rustic bread, black bread and typical Sicilian hot bread.

After breakfast, we'll depart for Cefalù. Cefalù is a lovely little fishing old town overlooked by a Norman cathedral, and a long sandy beach. Enjoy a walk through the town centre to admire the architecture of centuries past, take a rest on the beach and savour a ‘’pranzo’’ eating fresh daily seafood and “pasta taianu”.

In the afternoon we'll stroll through the street markets, and their boisterous affairs with the energy and edge of an African bazaar. Like locals we'll stop to eat a timeless classic ‘’Panella’’ or ‘’arancina’’, a ‘’pani ca meusa’’ or a ‘’babbaluci’’. Remember Palermo's celebrated street food as well as its architecture and art.

Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Grand Hotel Wagner***** or similar.

The two gates of Zingaro Reserve

After breakfast, get ready to explore by private boat the best-kept secret of Zingaro Nature Reserve from Castellammare Port.

Scopello lies at the edge of the Zingaro Nature Reserve. A small but charming seaside village, that was built around a 16th-century on the site of a former Moorish hamlet. According to the legend, the beauty of the place was captured by Homer, who set it as the final step before the return of Ulysses to Ithaca: the Island of the Phaeacians would be just the bay of Scopello.

The sea is like a dream: the stacks emerge impressively out of the crystal clear water, opposite the ancient tunaries, characterizing the landscape. The tunary, built in the thirteenth century, is located in a small bay, where dramatic and impressive rocks with prickly pear cactus on tips, called “Faraglioni”, make the seawater looks like a lagoon.

Towards San Vito lo Capo the coastline becomes rugged, rocky and, in places, spectacular. That most natural of sculptors, the sea, has worked minor miracles, creating a myriad of coves, sea stacks and grottoes in the hard limestone cliffs.

Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Baglio La Porta***** or similar.

The salt route

Welcome to the western city of Sicily: Marsala. The town, rich in history and charm, owes its name to Arab influence: Marsa Allah, the port of God, has always been a city of fundamental strategic importance for routes within the Mediterranean Sea.

Famous throughout the world for its excellent wine that bears its name, Marsala went down in history for being the city where Garibaldi landed in Sicily for the liberation of southern Italy from the Bourbon domination. Stroll in the heart of Marsala with a walking tour. Discover the Duomo, the many squares and all the secrets of the city.

After lunch, we'll head to the Mozia Saline. We will visit the old mill and we'll let ourselves be carried away by the atmosphere we breathe walking along banks and canals, discovering the most beautiful and suggestive flora, fauna and landscapes of the whole lagoon.

Thanks to a unique tasting, we will discover different types of salt and their properties. We will taste some unusual varieties, pure and flavoured, in combination with some typical Sicilian products, such as fresh bread, olive oil, cherry tomatoes, fresh seasonal fruit and very freshly squeezed lemon juice.

After an afternoon touring the Saline, we'll admire the sunset from a gorgeous place to contemplate the beauty of this unique landscape.
Sit with a ‘’tagliere’’ of local products and fall in love with the sundown tasting the ‘’ marsala’’ wine, one of the world’s great fortified wines traditionally served as an aperitif.

Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Baglio Oneto dei Principi di San Lorenzo***** or similar.

In the heart of Egadi Islands

Your morning wake-up at Baglio Oneto is like no other: the continental buffet and Sicilian specialties, the first sun that greets your eyes, the scent of pure nature, and the sounds of sweet sparrows. Cereals, seeds, and dried fruits mix well with organic yogurt and cheeses, and cured meats and delicious tuna accompany savory croissants. A snapshot of bucolic beauty and a riot of colors – this is what greets you at breakfast in our historic courtyard garden.

Lying just a few miles off the coast of Trapani, the three Egadi Islands offer a great abundance of charm and diversity.
The skipper will guide us to discover the Egadi Islands, following the wind’s breath. Live a unique experience between secret caves, inaccessible bays and uncountable shades of blue. Yellow box-shaped houses with flat roofs and a hot wind will make you feel being somewhere in North Africa. Left the mooring and hoisted the sail, our sailing experience will begin.

in the late afternoon, we'll take a journey through ages past. A tasting at Baglio Oneto is much more than simply sampling wines. This exclusive experience begins with the earth: the family’s vineyard and olive grove, where everything is grown. The journey continues, through the historic courtyard, leading to the millstone room, where the grapes were pounded by foot and their stalks were pressed. After a stop in the manor house, we'll reach the most precious part: the cellar where the barrels for the aging of our wine are kept. Here, immersed in history, we'll taste wines, along with a selection of Sicilian cheeses, salamis, and biscotti.

Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Baglio Oneto dei Principi di San Lorenzo***** or similar.

The unique stairways you ever seen

Enjoy your breakfast before depart for Agrigento.

We'll take a walk in the medieval town centre where elegant streets are interwoven between the ancient noble building. We'll stroll in the main street tasting a ‘’pecorino’’ ice cream: a delicate ice cream made from ricotta cheese that has a typical taste of the area, very unique.

You'll enjoy a homemade pasta all'agrigentina (with fresh tomatoes, basil and almonds) in the heart of Agrigento before jump aboard an ancient sailing gulet.

We will admire all the beauty of the Agrigento coast reaching the Scala dei Turchi. You'll fall in love with one of the unique stairways you ever seen, a spectacular stretch of coast, thanks to its singularity has become an icon of the Sicilian seaside. The nature, as a great artist, has worked the soft limestone over time, making it sinuous, with the help of the sea and the salty breeze, creating terraces and smoothing every corner.

Enjoy the crystal clear and uncontaminated sea before dining in with fresh seafood accompanied by a good glass of Sicilian wine.

Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Villa Athena***** or similar.

The valleys of the temple

In the morning, feast on a sumptuous breakfast made up of sweet and savory delicacies. The mini cannoli, with fresh ricotta cheese, and the freshly-squeezed orange juice are incomparable.

After breakfast, your guide will meet you at the lobby to depart for a half-day guided tour in the valleys of the temple. The Sicily's most enthralling archaeological site encompasses the ruined ancient city of Akragas, highlighted by the stunningly well-preserved Tempio della Concordia. Here you will be met by a timeless landscape, full of rarefied and mystic silence, which recalls the wondrous Peloponnese archaeological sites.

Enjoy your free time this afternoon or choose one of our optional experience.

Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Villa Athena***** or similar.

Ciao Italia!

Transfer to the Palermo International Airport for your return flight or you may choose to extend your holiday.

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