• 2 Dinner (D)
• 5 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

• Sliema: Enjoy dinner with your fellow travelers at your luxury hotel in Sliema.
• Sliema: Toast to your trip with your fellow travelers over a wonderful Farm-to-Table dinner. 

• Sliema: Visit the National War Museum, site of a former air raid shelter. Learn about the important role Malta played during WWII while you explore with a historian.

Gather on the Sliema waterfront to meet your Travel Director and share a welcome dinner with fellow travelers as harbor lights shimmer across the bay. Savor Maltese flavors shaped by the sea and sun while you settle into the island’s easy rhythm.

Centuries of Sicilian and North African influence inform the cuisine—olive oil, capers, tomatoes and just-landed seafood—often paired with local wines from limestone-rich soils. Conversation flows in a relaxed setting that introduces Malta’s generous hospitality.

Toast your Maltese journey with a Farm-to-Table dinner that celebrates seasonal produce and small island growers. Sample regional wines as chefs showcase rustic recipes—perhaps rabbit stew (fenkata) and gbejna cheese, ftira bread and sun-sweet tomatoes.

Terraced fields and dry-stone walls yield olives, capers and herbs that underpin a simple, flavorful cuisine shaped by salt air and sunshine. This hosted evening focuses on provenance, with menus shifting to what was picked that morning.

Set out on a Gozo day trip, cross the channel by ferry to Malta’s smaller sister island for a leisurely lunch that spotlights Gozitan produce. Take in stone villages, terraced hillsides and limestone cliffs dropping to luminous blue seas.

Hear Homeric echoes at the site linked to Calypso Cave and feel the island’s gentler pace in coastal bays and rural lanes. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; timings are arranged locally.

Explore Fort St Elmo and the National War Museum as you explore with a historian, tracing Malta’s wartime story amid seaward ramparts and echoing casemates. Encounter artifacts including the Gloster Sea Gladiator ‘Faith’, Roosevelt’s Jeep ‘Husky’, and the George Cross awarded to the Maltese people for extraordinary bravery.

Understand how this star-shaped stronghold guarded the harbours through Ottoman attack and the Second World War. Exhibits and vantage points connect strategy with setting, from battered metal and uniforms to views across breakwaters and busy shipping lanes.

Walk the quiet lanes of Mdina as you join a Local Specialist, absorbing monastic hush, noble facades and sun-warmed limestone. Continue to Palazzo Falson, where intimate rooms display antique silver, art and armor, and a library evokes the private world of collector Olof Gollcher.

Known as Mdina, the Silent City, this hilltop enclave preserves Malta’s medieval soul within encircling walls. At Palazzo Falson, a rooftop garden nurtures endemic plants for pollinators—part of a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience aligned with sustainable cities and communities.

Discover Valletta with your Local Specialist as you join a guided walking tour to the Upper Barrakka Gardens, where arches frame sweeping views over Grand Harbour and the Three Cities. Step inside St John’s Co-Cathedral to admire gilded chapels, inlaid tombstones and Caravaggio’s Beheading of St John the Baptist.

Hear how the Knights of St John founded the fortress capital in 1566 and shaped a restrained exterior that conceals baroque interiors. The gardens, once reserved for Italian Knights, provide a vantage where Valletta’s bastions and domes rise above the sea.

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