DAY 2 - BEAUTIFUL BUSCH GARDENS / TAMPA, FL: We begin today with a visit to beautiful Busch Gardens, The Dark Continent, as we travel to Tampa.  The best of romantic Africa, Busch Gardens is filled with thousands of exotic animals in a lush fun filled paradise – a 300-acre park offering rides, live entertainment, animal entertainment, animal exhibits and shows, shops, and games in seven theme areas---all with a turn-of-the-century African motif. The 1,200 seat Moroccan Place Theatre presents musical shows daily.  You can browse through the shops and stalls of the marketplace for colorful keepsakes. Overnight in the Tampa, area.

DAY 3 -THOMAS EDISON HOME / FLORIDA EVERGLADES /  ALLIGATOR ALLEY: This morning we continue traveling south down the west coast of Florida stopping in Ft. Myers, Florida for a tour of the famous Thomas Edison home, including the Botanical Gardens and Museum. After lunch, we follow Alligator Alley across a portion of the Everglades. While in the Everglades, we will take an exciting airboat ride where you may view the wild, eye to eye; birds, wildlife, raccoons, and alligators.  Crossing the everglades and heading to South Florida, traveling through Homestead, we'll view some of the beautiful vegetable crops grown in this area. We will spend the next two nights in South Florida.

DAY 4 - SIGHTSEEING KEY WEST: Delightful Key West is the southernmost city of the continental United States, only 90 miles from Cuba, and is filled with subtropical palms, flowers and huge, shady banyan trees. Victorian gingerbread houses and tiny "shotgun" homes where Cuban cigar makers’ descendants still live.  You will enjoy the many sights of Key West with its rocky shore, sandy beaches and weathered homes. A 14 mile Conch train ride will show, and explain, to you the many sights of Key West. You may enjoy visiting the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, an imposing Spanish mansion, where the Nobel Prize winning author wrote some of his most important works. There will be free time for shopping and browsing in the boutiques at Mallory Square in this quaint and historic port city.

DAY 6 - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER / IMAX THEATER / ST. AUGUSTINE: This morning we continue north along the East Coast of Florida.  After lunch we’re off to the Kennedy Space Center, where we take a two-hour guided bus tour of the facility and take in the show at the incredible Imax Theater.  The theater’s huge 5 1/2 story tall, 70-foot wide screen makes the film both spectacular and unforgettable.  Also, we will stop at St .Augustine, the oldest city in America, where the Spanish Cultural influence remains a contrast to the modern way of life throughout the rest of the state.

DAY 7 –  HISTORIC SAVANNAH: Ahead of us this morning is the scenic drive along the coastal area of Georgia. We will make our way to the historic city of Savannah, Georgia, where we will enjoy a riding tour of Savannah and a visit to the Savannah History Visitors Center.  The Center is located in a 19th century railroad depot , which houses a reproduction of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin,  and an 1869 Baldwin Locomotive. We spend our last night in the area of Savannah.

DAY 8  -   HOMEWARD BOUND: Today we complete our Florida Sunshine Circle as we return to the mountains of Eastern Tennessee.  We can tell our friends that we truly saw, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic, the best Florida had to offer.  Thanks  for  choosing  Fellowship Tours  for  your splendid  vacation  of   the  Florida Sunshine Circle.