8-Day, 7-Night Macedonian Jewish Heritage Tour

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Tour Dates:

June 26 | 2022

3,500 USD*

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Join Macedonian Jewish community experts Sarah Aroeste and Josh Bloom for an in-depth exploration of North Macedonia’s Jewish heritage, culture, and music. Discover the country’s rich history, natural beauty, ethnic diversity, and delectable food and wine.

Visit all the must see sites, while being guided , by an Israeli and a Palestinian, in an immersive travel experience that takes you behind the doors of mosques, churches, and synagogues, through the halls of Palestinian and Israeli government, into active dig sites, and into the homes of Arab, Jewish, and Druze locals.

Registration Deadline: May 08, 2022

*Prices are per person and based on double occupancy. Single room supplements are available

Exclusive Experiences:

● Be VIP guests of Sarah Aroeste and witness her groundbreaking live concert, Monastir, in a celebration of Macedonian Jewish life.

● Cook traditional Jewish Macedonian recipes with representatives of Skopje’s Jewish Community Center.

● Visit the remains of a 2^nd century synagogue at the Stobi archaeological park.

● Tour Bitola’s former Jewish Quarter and cemetery.

● Pay respects at sites commemorating the deportation and near annihilation of the Jewish population of Macedonia.

● Learn at Skopje’s Holocaust Memorial Center.

● Have the opportunity to research trip participants’ Macedonian family roots with historians and archivists.

● Stroll through Skopje’s Ottoman Old Town.

● See Mother Teresa’s birthplace.

● Visit colorful mosques and find intricately designed iconostasis shrines and fresco reliefs at Macedonian Orthodox churches.

● Marvel at the beauty of national parks and pristine waters of Lake Ohrid.

TRIP INCLUDES

7 nights’ accommodations based on double occupancy at the following hotels or similar: Marriott (Skopje), Hotel Treff (Bitola), Holiday City Palace (Ohrid)

Local English-speaking guide

Private transportation, including group arrival/departure transfers

Entrance fees

Honorariums for speakers

Meals as per itinerary

Bottled still and sparkling water at included meals

Gratuities for guides, drivers, hotel staff, & staff at included meals

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TRIP DOES NOT INCLUDE

Flights

Travel Insurance-HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Single Supplement- $350

Optional Extension Tour - $995 per person (double occupancy)

Soft & alcoholic drinks with meals

Water on bus for tours & transfers

Individual airport transfers outside of the group transfers

All the trips we take are educational and geared towards cultural immersion, and that’s true of MEJDI. But none are so first hand and intentionally personal as the MEJDI tour guides are.

You come away hopeful because the tour guides can have such different backgrounds and experiences and opinions and still respect each other, And, they introduce you to groups that are working to spread that throughout the world.

Kim

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