3-Night Atlanta Trip by Air

You’ll depart on your flight. When you arrive in Atlanta, you will meet your tour manager and your bus will pick you up to begin your trip.

You’ll have free time at the Municipal Market in Sweet Auburn, or “Curb Market”. This market has a very long history in the neighborhood, but is more recently flourishing with yummy foods! Vendors within the market are individually owned businesses and offer goods including meat, fish, baked goods, vegetables, fruit, nuts, coffee, plants, groceries, and more. Additionally, there are many restaurants located in the market, including several that have gone on to start stand-alone restaurants, such as Grindhouse Killer Burgers and Bell Street Burritos.

After lunch, you’ll visit the Martin Luther King, Jr National Historic Site. The visitor center is the place to stop for a brief orientation to the historic site and a tour of the featured exhibits “Courage to Lead”, and “Children of Courage”, viewing a short film.

Established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (“The King Center”) has been a global destination, resource center and community institution for over a quarter century. Both a traditional memorial and programmatic nonprofit, the King Center was envisioned by its founder to be “no dead monument, but a living memorial filled with all the vitality that was his, a center of human endeavor, committed to the causes for which he lived and died.” That vision was carried out through educational and community programs until Mrs. King’s retirement in the mid-1990’s, and today it’s being revitalized.

After dinner, you’ll arrive at your hotel and check in.

After breakfast, you’ll board your bus and depart the hotel for the day.

You’ll take a self-guided tour of the Georgia Aquarium. The Georgia Aquarium houses 120,000 animals, representing 500 species, in 8.5 million gallons of marine and fresh water. During your visit, you’ll experience the Educational Dolphin Training Session, the AT&T Dolphin Tales Show and Deepos’s 3D Undersea Wondershow!

You’ll have free time in Centennial Olympic Park which not only serves as a legacy of the 1996 Olympic Games, but is the center of a thriving tourist district with neighbors that include the College Football Hall of Fame, the Center for Civil & Human Rights, the World of Coca-Cola, Georgia Aquarium, CNN Center and Imagine It! The Children’s Museum. This downtown Atlanta park is an urban oasis offering an abundance of activities and things to do for visitors, families, convention attendees and locals.

After lunch, you’ll visit The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, a museum dedicated to the achievements of both the civil rights movement in the United States and the broader worldwide human rights movement. The Center hosts a number of exhibitions, both permanent and temporary, that not only tell the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, but how that period is related to more contemporary human rights struggles around the world.

You’ll visit the World of Coca-Cola, where you’ll see the fully-functioning bottling line, view more than 1,200 never-before displayed artifacts, share a hug with a 7 foot tall Polar Bear, and more!

After dinner, you’ll return to the hotel for the evening.

After breakfast, you’ll check out of your hotel rooms and board your bus for the day.

Admission to the Zoo Atlanta. Zoo Atlanta houses over 1,500 animals representing more than 220 species. The zoo has the nation’s largest zoological collections of gorillas and orangutans and is one of four zoos in the U.S. currently housing giant pandas.[2]

You’ll have free time at Ponce City Market.

After lunch, you’ll visit the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. A visit to the Museum brings a unique opportunity to explore cultural treasures, experience the thrill of a film in the IMAX® Theatre, enjoy interactive science displays and marvel at the largest dinosaurs ever discovered.

You’ll head to the airport for your return trip home.