During the tour "Mexican necklace of Florida" we will see the most interesting historical, natural and cultural attractions that are like pearls strung on the west coast of our sunny land, washed by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

1. Miami (Villa Viscaia)

Miami is America’s most beloved and popular resort.

During the sightseeing tour, we will show you the historic, longest Collins Avenue. Let's look at the historic Art Deco Architecrure Reserve on South Beach. Business cards of Lincoln Road and Ocean Drive. Visit the World-famous Holocaust Memorial. We'll take the three-mile Mac Arthur Cosway Bridge. We will see the man-made islands (including the famous Fisher Island), where the most famous and rich people of the planet Earth live.

We will see the port of Miami, the capital of cruise ships.

We'll visit Downtown Miami. Third after Manhattan and Chicago Downtown.

Of course, within the framework of one tour it is impossible to accommodate the whole city. But the best, the most interesting we will definitely see.

Acquaintance with one of the world's main resorts will be incomplete without a visit to the "Mayam Versailles" - Villa Vizcaya. This is truly the jewel of Miami.In the gardens and rooms of Villa Vizcaya, the atmosphere of the Renaissance and the spirit of life and existence of noble people of Italy still reign.

The museum exhibits a huge number of valuable exhibits belonging to the brushes of famous artists and many relics belonging to the period of the XVI-XIX centuries. Room style dating back to the Renaissance, a unique landscape design using waterfalls, sculptures and fountains. You can not keep silent about the uniqueness of the decoration of the rooms of Villa Vizcaya, here you will find incredible beds with canopies, amazing old armchairs and amazingly preserved musical instruments.

Among the visitors to Villa Viscaia were members of the family of the monks of the Vinzrud family led by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, the Spanish Royal Family Juan I with Queen Sofia, Pope John Paul II. With our help, you can add to the list of guests of this fairy-tale museum.

2. Naples (1 night out)

City of Naples, Collier County, Florida, USA. Just two hours drive from bustling and crowded Miami, and you get to a small town with a population of about 22 thousand people and an area slightly more than 30 square kilometers.

But this town can easily break records of uniqueness in several categories:

It is there that you can admire the most fantastic nature of North America.

It is the only city in the world that has a pair of luxury hotels Ritz-Carlton.

Naples is a unique place where the number of golf holes and tennis courts far exceeds the number of locals.

In addition, as locals assure, the sunset in Naples is the most beautiful in America.

3. The Miracle Lake.

The diameter of the lake is up to 175 meters, the depth is up to 79 meters. Along the perimeter, near the coast, the water area of the lake is fenced with a thick rope, beyond which it is not allowed to swim, for the safety of vacationers. The lake has more mineral content than any other lake in America, and it ranks third in mineralization worldwide. Mineral water is indicated for the treatment of joint pain, arthritis, rheumatism and sciatica.

The Miracle Lake covers an area of 1.4 acres and is located in a wonderful place surrounded by eucalyptus trees. During the day, about forty thousand cubic meters of mineral water enters the lake. The temperature of the water in the lake is almost always constant – about 30 degrees Celsius.The special microclimate of the lake allows you to swim in it at any time of the year, which has a beneficial effect on health.

The Indians considered this lake sacred. They called it the Fountain of Youth and carefully guarded it from any aliens. Since ancient times, sick Indians lit fires on the lake shore at night, swam in it and organized festivals in honor of their gods - thanking them for healing.

4. Sarasota (2 overnight stay)

Sarasota is not only a resort with a great climate and perfect beaches, but also a place where cultural life is in the key, and there are almost more attractions than in the rest of the state of Florida.

Sarasota has 42 properties listed as National Treasures. An unforgettable experience for you will be a visit to the Ringling Art Museum - one of the main art museums in Florida.

The Ringling Museum

The Ringling Museum is a few museums located in a beautiful park on the bay near the city of Sarasota. The water is the home of John and Mabel Ringling. This mansion is a winter residence of the couple, built in the style of Venetian Gothic in 1926.On the first floor, where there are front rooms, dining room, kitchens, visitors are allowed free of charge. On the second, where bedrooms and guest rooms are located - for a fee. The second building in the park is the circus museum. Mr. Ringling was a successful circus owner and decided to create the first such museum in America. Its expositions tell about the history of circus art, there are costumes, posters and posters, information about the most famous artists. On the screens demonstrate a variety of tricks that did circus workers in the early XX century. The third museum is an art museum. The circus owner collected the collection of paintings gradually, brought paintings and sculptures from Europe.

5. St. Petersburg (3 nights)

There are many cities in the United States whose names are borrowed from different countries. One of them is St. Petersburg in Florida, founded and named by a native of the Russian Empire in honor of the eponymous city in Russia more than 120 years ago. Unlike the Russian inspiration, the American city is famous for year-round sunny weather and pelicans, it is washed by the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of Tampa.

We will enter the city via the unique Sunshine Skyway Bridge. This beautiful long majestic bridge is one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world, overhanging the Tampa Strait. Its length is 6.6 km.

Salvador Dali Museum

The collection of this museum began in Ohio, in the house of the spouses Morse - Albert Reynolds and Eleanor Reese. In 1943, they at an exhibition in Cleveland acquired the first painting of Dalí. Later, they met the Master and became his friends. 20 years after the first meeting, they had about 200 works of Dali in their house. In 1971, the collection moved to a former office building in Ohio. But as the couple continued to acquire the artist’s paintings, they had to look for a new place for the museum. As a result, in 1982, the Dali Museum was opened in St. Petersburg. The building opened its doors to visitors in 2011. Here are presented both small and giant canvases, about 100 watercolors and drawings. Be sure to pay attention to the portrait of Lincoln, whose face can be seen only by moving away from the picture at a fair distance.

6. The Devil's Lair is Florida's oldest cave.

A hole in the ground opens the entrance to the cave, where there is an amazing beauty of the lake depth of 22 meters, which is fed from an underground source. The water in the lake is warm, and on cold days steam comes from the hole. Hence the name of this place – Devil’s Den (“the den of the devil”). Thousands of years ago, the top of the cave collapsed, and until the cavity filled with water, the cave was a trap from which animals and people fell there could not get out. The remains of prehistoric animals that fell there are found at the bottom of the cave to this day. Just splashing in the lake will not work, but there are organized sessions for diving and scuba diving (for adults and children over 6 years old). But not divers will not be bored either – there is everything you need to organize a family picnic above the cave.

7. Tallahassee is the capital of Florida. (4 overnight)

In this exquisitely elegant city, the atmosphere of the American South is clearly felt, which permeates literally everything: from the curves of the hills to the majestic, purely southern, oaks, and captivating magnolias overgrown with thick moss.

It is the youngest capital of the United States, with an average age of 26.

In the capital of Florida Tallahassee are two Capitols, old and new. We'll visit both of these buildings. Magnificent, built in 1845, the Old Capitol is now a museum, it is open to the public, its exposition tells about the formation of the state of Florida. Numerous exhibits of the museum allow you to learn a lot of interesting things about the history of the state.

On the roof of the new Capitol Building, built in 1972, an observation deck with telescopes was made to view the city and surrounding areas.

We are in the Museum of antique cars, which is rightfully proud of the capital of Florida. Here are collected the rarest models of American cars. Many exhibits were involved in the shooting of various films.

We will look at the luxurious building of the State University of Florida, which was founded in 1851. In front of the stadium of this university we will see a beautiful monument to Oceola, the leader of the Seminole Indian tribe.

8.Pensacola (5 overnight stay)

Pensacola is called the “city of five flags” in sign of the fact that the flags of Spain, France, Great Britain, the United States and the Confederate States of America have flown over it at different times.

The hallmark of the city became ancient educational institutions, some of them are more than a hundred years old. One of the most famous is Rollins College, it was founded in 1885 and is located in the picturesque town of Winter Park. The buildings in which educational institutions are located are of great historical value, in total there are more than 120 higher educational institutions in the state.

We will visit the Fort Barrancas military fort, built in the 19th century and walk through the historic city center.

9. Falling Waters State Park (Falling Waters State Park)

This park is home to the largest waterfall in Florida, at 73 feet (22 meters) high. No one knows exactly where the water is coming from this waterfall. We will also see the natural shelters in which the Indians hid during the Seminole Wars. In addition, the park has a butterfly garden, picnic, camping and fishing areas, as well as a small lake with a beach.

10. Caves in Caverns State Park (6 overnight)

Caves always beckon people with mysterious dusk, calm silence and beauty of natural architecture.Caves in Caverns State Park are the only caves in Florida that are open to tourists. Groundwater, seeping through the limestone, wash it out and form bizarre forms - stalactites, stalagmites, stone rivers and pools.

11. Appalachian Village - Mission San Luis

Mission San Luis is an open-air museum that tells the story of the conquest of these lands by the Spanish and their friendship with the Appalachian Indian tribes. Everything here has been restored in the form in which it was in the period from 1656 to 1704, when this region became the crossroads of two cultures.

Here you can see the huge House of the Council of the Appalachian Indians - a round structure more than 40 meters in diameter We will also visit the houses in which the Spaniards themselves lived, the priest's house and the church in which the Europeans converted the Indians to their faith. There is also a small “fortress” – the territory surrounded by a palisade, which was designed to defend the territory of the mission from external enemies.

There are paths everywhere near which there are informative tablets with drawings. They describe how life went on in such missions day by day. It was a kind of educational program on both sides.The Spanish taught them how to survive in nature, what animals are suitable for food, what are not, how to make dishes from clay, and the Spanish introduced them to weapons, self-defense systems, more civilized living conditions.

The museum building has an exposition that reveals the history of the conquests of Florida by the Spaniards and the British, and some household items are exhibited.

12. Vacula Springs State Park (7 overnight stay)

(Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park)

This park has one of the world’s longest sources of fresh water. It is located 24 km south of Tallahassee. Water is fed into a huge reservoir, where 2.6 million liters of liquid are stored. Vacationers are invited to plunge into crystal clear water or ride a boat with a glass bottom. Traveling by boat along the Vakula River, you can see alligators, lamatins (sea cows) and marsh birds. On the way there is a hunting lodge built in the 1930s.

13. Tampa (8 overnight)

This city is one of the most attractive places to live in the United States. The atmosphere here speaks for itself, and the feeling of prosperity is at every turn.The city was named one of the top 5 U.S. cities with a population of over 300,000. The local climate, sustainable urban environment, natural resources and economic progress together create a place that the locals and everyone else who dreams of visiting.

Henry Plant Museum

The towers, resembling Muslim minarets, in the city of Tampa are visible from almost everywhere. They decorate the building of an old hotel that belonged to Henry Bradley Plant, a Florida railroad magnate. By running a railroad to Tampa in 1884, he helped establish business in the area. Therefore, he decided to build a hotel here, which received its first guests in 1891. The most expensive apartments in it then cost $ 15 (!) per night, which was comparable to the cost of rooms in an expensive hotel in New York. Now the wide hotel corridor is lined with the same dark red carpet with patterns, which was walked by the first guests more than 100 years ago. The walls are decorated with canvases and picturesque panels, all sorts of vases in the oriental style, porcelain trinkets, Venetian mirrors, French furniture of the XVIII century are placed on the drawers.On the terrace are placed chairs, which once rested with a newspaper and a cup of coffee in the hand of the guests. So in the company of an audio guide in this hotel-museum you can imagine the life of businessmen and a wealthy public of the late XIX century in all its glory.

14. Fort Myers (9 overnight stays)

Fort Myers is primarily associated with the great inventor of the 19th and 20th centuries, Thomas Edison, who settled in this lovely town in 1885.

Fort Myers owes Edison the fact that he from an unknown quiet settlement turned it into a place where people from all over the world now come specifically to visit his winter residence, on the territory of which is now a luxurious botanical garden and a museum of inventions of this great man.

Edison worked in his laboratory, which is also now available for tourists, and Henry Ford worked for him as an engineer who helped to bring his inventions to life.

Edison’s house, along with its estate, which now consists of five buildings, including the Edison Museum of Inventions, was bequeathed to the city by Edison’s widow a decade after the inventor’s death (1931).Since then, about 380,000 people have come annually from all over the United States and from abroad to visit this unique site, which is now among the ten most visited historic homes in America.

Edison’s Winter House highlights the activities and the lifestyle of its owner. Even travelers who are completely unfamiliar with science, exploring the house, the laboratory and the botanical garden, will realize that this was indeed the residence of a genius.

The winter estates of Edison and Ford are combined and include a botanical garden of 8.5 hectares, which has more than a thousand species of various plants. Visitors will also find the Henry Ford workshop here.

15. Mykosukki Indian Village and Indian Reservation.

(Miccosukee Indian Village)

You will get acquainted with the beautiful nature of the Avelgrades National Reserve and with the fascinating history of the Native American Indians, whose lives were told in his books by Fenimore Cooper. Remember, "Oceola, Chief of the Seminoles"? You will visit the most authentic Indian reservation. You will see ethnic dwellings and shows with aligaators.Learn about the culture and life of the “unconquered people” and visit the Museum of Indians. You will also be able to taste dishes from the meat of the aligator and will be able to purchase intricate handmade products.

Return to Miami

Tour cost: $1,390

Single surcharge (separate room accommodation): $600

Discount for 3 and 4th person in the room: $350 / person

Guaranteed dates of the tour start (2019):

August 4, September 8, October 6, November 3, December 1.