2-Night Trip to Atlanta by Bus

You’ll board your bus for Atlanta. When you arrive in Atlanta, you will meet your tour manager.

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!

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 will return to your hotel on the bus.

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

You’ll visit Six Flags Over Georgia, a 100-acre park with awesome rides, great shows, and incredible attractions!

You’ll board your bus and begin the return trip home.