We've combined two of the south's hottest--and most giant-sized--attractions into one spectacular tour....the Opryland hotel in Nashville and the Ark Encounter in Kentucky. We'll depart Little Rock for Nashville, where we will arrive at the Opryland hotel, with 9 acres of lush indoor gardens and cascading waterfalls, a full-service spa, numerous attractions inside the hotel, and great dining-- with a stylish steakhouse, and Mexican, Italian and Japanese restaurants inside. The options are endless tonight. Catch a show at the Grand Ole Opry nearby, cruise the indoor river, or just relax and unwind and enjoy this marvel of a hotel. The next morning, we will experience Nashville's famous "Cowboy Church"-- a fast moving, well-paced interdenominational service featuring your favorite country music artists, as well as local songwriters performing their personal favorite gospel songs, combined with the music and ministry of Dr. Harry Yates and Dr. Joanne Cash Yates--the younger sister of the legendary Johnny Cash. This program is broadcast into over 110 countries, reaching millions! After Cowboy church experience
a real Southern Homecoming on the General Jackson Showboat! With a dynamic and heartwarming stage, this show celebrates the songs and stories inspired by family, friends, faith and the American Flag. This energetic production showcases some of country music's positive and inspirational chart topping songs by artists like Alan Jackson, Martina McBride, and Tim McGraw. You'll hear amazing and authentic vocal harmonies on some gospel music's most beloved songs and it all concludes with a musical tribute to the American Flag. Supported by decadent stage lights, dapper costumes and dazzling multimedia, a quartet of Nashville's finest voices welcome you to a Southern Homecoming aboard the General Jackson Showboat! Then we're off to Kentucky! Imagine touring a full-size Noah’s Ark, built according to the dimensions given in the Bible. Now you can. Join us on an unbelievable journey to the Ark Encounter. Spanning 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 51 feet high, this modern engineering marvel amazes visitors young and old. Ark Encounter is situated in beautiful Williamstown, Kentucky. From the moment you turn the corner and the towering Ark comes into view, to the friendly animals in the zoo, to the jaw-dropping exhibits inside the Ark, you’ll experience the pages of the Bible like never before. This tour also includes a stop at the Creation Museum --a state-of-the-art 75,000-square-foot museum that brings the pages of the Bible to life, casting its characters and animals in dynamic form and placing them in familiar settings. Adam and Eve live in the Garden of Eden. Children play and dinosaurs roam near Eden’s Rivers. The serpent coils cunningly in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Majestic murals, great masterpieces brimming with pulsating colors and details, provide a backdrop for many of the settings. But that's not all. We will also visit the Garden of Hope developed by a minister who preached the eulogy at the funeral of John Dillinger. Overlooking Cincinnati, the garden includes replicas of the tomb where Jesus was buried, a carpenter shop like the one Joseph worked in, and a Spanish chapel, as well as large boulders from the River Jordan. Price includes roundtrip luxury motorcoach transportation, 4 nights lodging, 3 breakfasts, one dinner, Southern Homecoming Cruise and lunch on General Jackson Showboat, Cowboy Church, Creation Museum admission, the Garden of Hope, the Arc Encounter museum admission, plus all taxes.
