The legendary city where Civil Rights leaders moved forward with their vision for a new South, is today a thriving, cosmopolitan city, both economically and culturally. From the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site to Southern cooking, Atlanta lays claim to the
title "Capital of the New South," and gives students a sense of how life has evolved from the days of slavery, to segregation, to the world they know today.
Highlights
CNN Center
World of Coca-Cola
Oakland Cemetary
Cyclorama
Stone Mountain Park
Botanical Gardens
Margaret Mitchell House
Underground Atlanta
Jimmy Carter Library
Atlanta History Museum
Six Flags over Georgia
Martin Luther Center for Nonviolent Change
Sample Itinerary
10:00AM
Arrival in Atlanta. Join your tour guide for a guided tour of Atlanta's spectacular skyline and learn how the city was rebuilt after General Sherman destroyed it over 100 years ago.
12:00PM
Time for shopping and browsing at Underground Atlanta.
Time for lunch at your expense.
1:30PM
Tour the World of Coca-Cola Pavilion. The museum highlights the story of Coca-Cola with a spectacular futuristic soda fountain and chance to shop at the Coca-Cola store featuring a vast array of merchandise.
3:00PM
Visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. Tour the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, Dr. King's birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church.
5:00PM
Depart for home.
1:00PM
Arrival in Atlanta. Join your tour guide for a guided tour of Atlanta's spectacular skyline and learn how the city was rebuilt after General Sherman destroyed it over 100 years ago.
3:00PM
Admission to Georgia's Stone Mountain Park. Site of Confederate heroes across the face of Stone Mountain-the world's largest exposed mass of granite.
6:00PM
Dinner at Stone Mountain Inn.
9:30PM
View the laser show (pending schedule).
8:00AM
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel and check out.
9:00AM
Visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. Tour the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, Dr. King's birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church.
11:00AM
Tour the World of Coca-Cola Pavilion. The museum highlights the story of Coca-Cola with a spectacular futuristic soda fountain and chance to shop at the Coca-Cola store featuring a vast array of merchandise.
1:00PM
Time for shopping and browsing at Underground Atlanta.
Time for lunch at your expense.
2:30PM
Depart for home.
2:00PM
Arrival in Atlanta. Join your tour guide for a guided tour of Atlanta's spectacular skyline and learn how the city was rebuilt after General Sherman destroyed it over 100 years ago.
4:00PM
Tour the World of Coca-Cola Pavilion. The museum highlights the story of Coca-Cola with a spectacular futuristic soda fountain and chance to shop at the Coca-Cola store featuring a vast array of merchandise.
6:30PM
Dinner.
Enjoy an evening swim in your hotel's indoor pool.
8:00AM
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel.
9:30AM
Visit and tour Atlanta Cyclorama. View the 1864 Civil War Battle of Atlanta painted in 1885 on an immense cylindrical canvas that has been fleshed out with three dimensional figures, sound and light effects, narration and a rotating seating platform.
11:00AM
Tour of CNN Studios.
12:30PM
Time for shopping and browsing at Underground Atlanta.
Time for lunch at your expense.
2:30PM
Admission to Georgia's Stone Mountain Park. Site of Confederate heroes across the face of Stone Mountain-the world's largest exposed mass of granite.
6:00PM
Dinner at Stone Mountain Inn.
9:30PM
View the laser show (pending schedule).
8:00AM
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel and check out.
10:00AM
Visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. Tour the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, Dr. King's birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church.
1:00PM
Time for lunch at your expense.
2:00PM
Depart for home.
2:00PM
Arrival in Atlanta. Join your tour guide for a guided tour of Atlanta's spectacular skyline and learn how the city was rebuilt after General Sherman destroyed it over 100 years ago.
4:00PM
Tour the World of Coca-Cola Pavilion. The museum highlights the story of Coca-Cola with a spectacular futuristic soda fountain and chance to shop at the Coca-Cola store featuring a vast array of merchandise.
6:30PM
Dinner.
8:00AM
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel.
10:00AM
Tour of CNN Studios.
11:30AM
Visit and tour Atlanta Cyclorama. View the 1864 Civil War Battle of Atlanta painted in 1885 on an immense cylindrical canvas that has been fleshed out with three dimensional figures, sound and light effects, narration and a rotating seating platform.
1:00PM
Time for shopping and browsing at Underground Atlanta.
Time for lunch at your expense.
3:00PM
Admission to Georgia's Stone Mountain Park. Site of Confederate heroes across the face of Stone Mountain-the world's largest exposed mass of granite.
6:00PM
Dinner at Stone Mountain Inn.
9:30PM
View the laser show (pending schedule).
8:00AM
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel.
9:30AM
Visit the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum. The library consists of an archives and a museum and is approximately 70,000 square feet in size. It is not a library in the usual sense but is a research facility and a museum.
11:00AM
Tour of the Atlanta University Complex, featuring Spelman college (the oldest college for black women in Atlanta) and Morehouse College.
12:30PM
Time for lunch at your expense.
2:00PM
Visit the Georgia Aquarium.
6:00PM
Dinner and games at the ESPN Zone.
8:00AM
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel and check out.
10:00AM
Visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. Tour the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, Dr. King's birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church.