2-Night Savannah Adventure
This program offers a dynamic blend of history, culture, and marine science through engaging tours and hands-on experiences in Savannah and Tybee Island.
Program Summary
Tour Number: 0425-197603
This immersive program explores the rich history, culture, and coastal ecology of Savannah and Tybee Island through guided tours and hands-on experiences. Students will journey through historic landmarks like Old Fort Jackson, Bonaventure Cemetery, and the Massie Heritage Center, and dive into marine science with a beach ecology tour led by a marine biologist. The itinerary is rounded out with a riverboat dinner cruise, ghost tour, and time for shopping along charming Broughton Street.
Program Highlights & Inclusions
- Bus transportation throughout your tour
- Professional tour manager with your group throughout the tour
- Two nights Hotel Accommodations in Savannah
- Old Town Trolley tour in Savannah
- Admission to the Savannah History Museum
- Sightseeing Riverboat Dinner Cruise
- Guided Tour of Old Fort Jackson
- Bonaventure Cemetery Tour
- Guided Tour of the Massie Heritage Center
- Visit to Forsyth Park
- Walking Ghost Tour of Savannah
- Visit and guided tour at Fort Pulaski National Monument
- Visit to Tybee Island Marine Science Center
- Marine Biologist Guided Ecology Beach Tour
- Visit to the Tybee Island Light Station
- Free Time for Shopping on Broughton Street
Daily Itinerary
You’ll depart on the bus for your trip. When you arrive in Savannah, you will meet your tour manager.
You’ll have free time to shop and explore Broughton Street, much like the “main street” of any city, this quaint section of town provides a multitude of shops, restaurants and scenery.
After lunch, you’ll hop on board a trolley for a tour of Savannah. Known for its impressive 18th and 19th century architecture, Savannah boasts over 1,700 restored buildings, each with its own story to tell. Travel back to the Civil War era as you visit the Green-Meldrim House, a Gothic revival style building which once served as General Sherman’s headquarters. Nearby is the beautiful Mercer-Williams House, where the controversial events described in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil played out. A few blocks further are the Andrew Low House, home to the founder of Girl Scouts USA, Juliette Gordon Low, and the Flannery O’Connor House.
You’ll visit the Savannah History Museum, located within the historic Central of Georgia Railway train shed and offers a glimpse into Savannah’s past with a story starting in 1733, spanning the American Revolution and Civil War, to the Industrial Revolution and beyond. The exhibits also highlight the City’s musical, cultural, and artistic contributions. View the bench used in the Forrest Gump movie, Johnny Mercer’s Oscar and Grammy Awards and celebrate 100 years of Girl Scouting by visiting our new exhibit “Women of Merit: Featuring Juliette Gordon Low & The Girl Scouts” which opened in June 2012.
Enjoy an evening of dinner, entertainment, and an unforgettable tour of Savannah on a Riverboat cruise. Experience refreshing river breezes on a sightseeing harbor tour, delicious local southern flavors and cultural entertainment.
After your dinner cruise, you’ll arrive at your hotel and check in.
After breakfast, you’ll board your bus and continue on your tour.
You’ll take a guided tour of Old Fort Jackson, named after Revolutionary War hero James Jackson, the fort was built to defend the port of Savannah from attack via the river. In 1777 & 1778, there was an earthen artillery battery located on the site. During the administration of President Thomas Jefferson, the United States began building a series of coastal fortifications, including Fort Jackson, to provide for the defense of major rivers and harbors along the east coast.
You’ll take a guided tour of Bonaventure Cemetery, though not Savannah’s oldest cemetery, the Bonaventure Cemetery is certainly its most famous and hauntingly beautiful in Savannah. Quintessentially Southern Gothic, it has captured the imaginations of writers, poets, naturalists, photographers, and filmmakers for more than 150 years. Part natural cathedral, part sculptural garden, you transcend time on this Bonaventure Cemetery Tour.
After lunch, you’ll visit the Massie Heritage Center which strives to create a greater appreciation of Savannah’s rich cultural heritage by preserving the historic Massie School as an interactive exhibit space and educational facility where both students and the general public can participate in interpretive programs that are designed to stimulate curiosity and to help achieve academic goals.
You’ll visit Forsyth Park, the largest park in historic Savannah. The park is a hub of social interaction in the city. Perhaps the most well known feature of Forsyth Park is the large fountain that sits at the north end of Forsyth Park. The fountain was built in 1858. It resembles a few other fountains found around the world, including fountains found in Paris and Peru. All around the Forsyth Park Fountain are benches. On any given day you can find many people, especially locals, lounging on the benches, taking in the scenery and great people watching that takes place in this area of the park.
After dinner, you’ll take a fun and enlightening walking ghost tour that explore the legends that lie beneath the haunting tales of Savannah. Even the skeptics in your group will enjoy this tour.
You will drive to your hotel for the evening.
After breakfast, you’ll check out of your rooms and board your bus for the day.
You’ll visit Fort Pulaski, where you’ll take a guided tour following in the footsteps of revolutionary thinkers, great engineering minds, fearless commanders, and thousands of workers who built and fought for control of this massive fortress.
You’ll visit the Tybee Island Marine Science Center which is devoted to cultivating a responsible stewardship of coastal Georgia’s natural resources through education, conservation, and research
After lunch, you’ll have the amazing opportunity to take a guided beach ecology tour with marine biologist, Dr. Joe Richardson, who has over 30 years of experience in teaching about the animals and ecology of coastal Georgia.
Ordered by General James Oglethorpe, Governor of the 13th colony, in 1732, the Tybee Island Light Station has been guiding mariners safe entrance into the Savannah River for over 270 years. The Tybee Island Light Station is one of America’s most intact having all of its historic support buildings on its five-acre site. Rebuilt several times the current lightstation displays its 1916 day mark with 178 stairs and a First Order Fresnel lens (nine feet tall).
You’ll board your bus and begin the return trip home.
