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Valletta
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Your three-hour flight to Malta leaves London in the early morning and lands mid-morning. Once you have cleared customs and collected your luggage you will be met by one of our team on the ground for the 20-minute private transfer to your hotel for the next three nights. After you have checked in and dropped your bags in your room, it will be just about time for lunch. Consult your handy Dossier for our favourite places, before meeting your expert guide for a four-hour private walking tour of Valletta. Your guide will take you through Valletta's beautiful baroque streets, explaining the city's rich history as you visit St John's Co-Cathedral and the beautiful Grand Masters Palace, before finishing at the Upper Barracca Gardens - whose views stretch across the Grand Harbour - at sunset. After your tour, you will head back to the hotel for a sundowner cocktail and sample the wares of another excellent restaurant (if it's on the menu, try the braised rabbit - a delicious Maltese speciality).
After breakfast this morning you will be met at your hotel by your expert guide and driver for a full day private tour of the southern tip of Malta. Your tour will take in the fascinating prehistoric caves at Ghar Dalam, where your guide will explain the interpretations of the cave paintings and how the first humans came to live on Malta over 7000 years ago. You will then move on to other important ancient sites, namely the Tarxerian Temples and Hagar Qim - both of which have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites - before a boat tour of the Blue Grotto. After your tour, you will be privately transferred back to Valletta in time for drinks and dinner.
After breakfast today, you will be met by your expert private guide and driver for the half an hour drive to Mdina. Here you will visit St Paul's Catacombs for a subterranean tour of Valletta. The catacombs date from the Roman occupation of Malta, and are an example of the unique Maltese underground architecture. After a tour of the catacombs you will visit St Pauls Cathedral, which was built over a period of five years after the original was levelled during an earthquake in the 17th century. Your guide will explain how, according to tradition, St Paul was met at the site by the Roman governor of Malta when he was shipwrecked on the island and how the cathedral came to be built. Take a tour of the harbour. To get a feel for what Valletta might have looked and felt like hundreds of years ago, take to the water on a tour of the Grand Harbour by boat, or more precisely, by dghajsa, Valletta's aquatic equivalent of London's black cabs. We can arrange a trip on one of these once ubiquitous craft that buzzed around the harbour for centuries ferrying sailors and locals around. Sadly they are becoming rarer and rarer. At the end of your tour you will be privately transferred back to your hotel to enjoy lunch and the afternoon at leisure.
Today it is sadly time to wave goodbye to Valetta after a last morning at leisure as you take a private transfer back to the airport in time for your lunchtime flight home. You will arrive back in London in the afternoon and the flight takes just under three and a half hours.
Each of our trips is entirely tailor-made with originality, quality and cultural immersion in mind. Our team of destination specialists will craft itineraries based on your tastes, using their first-hand knowledge and the help of our in-country team of Concierges and guides. All trips are accompanied by a wide range of additional services, including a 24-hour helpline, the Original Travel app, fast-track airport services and much more.
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