In England's Southeast corner is the lovely garden province of Kent. With its rolling hills, fruitful orchards, beautiful coastline and the fascinating town of Canterbury, Kent is a beacon for many travelers. Take a private Canterbury shore excursion and discover the medieval and modern charms of this historic town, plus the many bucolic villages dotting the Kentish countryside.

Your local guide will make sure you don't miss the soaring spires of Canterbury Cathedral - an 11th century masterpiece recognised today as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Enjoy exploring the delightful narrow streets and alleyways that surround the cathedral. Your guide will suggest a pub lunch in one of Canterbury's many atmospheric ale-houses. In the afternoon, drive to Dover's white cliffs, stopping to admire the many picturesque villages along the way.

Your guide is eager to customize a private Canterbury Shore excursion that reflects your unique travel interests in this lively English town.

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Castles and Cliffs Tour. Explore all three wonderful castles. All offering something unique and different.

This Dover Tour takes in and allows time to visits to all three unmissable castles along the Dover's, White Cliff's Coastline.
All too often but quite rightly, visitors to Dover are eager to visit the magnificent splendor and long history of Dover Castle but too often, due to time limitations, miss its (slightly younger and more dainty) sisters. This Dover Tour visits all three unmissable castles as well as a picturesque short walk along Deal Promenade, a drive through Kingsdown, the furthermost end of the White Cliffs of Dover and a one way, point to point walk along the Eastern Cliffs (South Forelands light house to Dover). Approximately 1/1. 5 hours (3. 2 miles) if you choose. You might rather just park and visit the cliff top pathway and visitor's centre.

Visits to all three famous castles local to Dover, Deal and Walmer as well a walk on the White Cliffs of Dover.

Unmissable Dover (Explore the Unmissable attractions in Dover with your local guide)

This Dover Tour takes in the quintessential areas that, if you're only coming to Dover once, you just can't miss.
Timings are flexible and you can choose to spend more or less time at any one place, depending on your preference.
The order of your visits may vary depending on our start and finish time, so can be offered to meet your needs. Dover Castle opens at 10 am so a tour with an early start would typically start at the White Cliffs or St Margret's Bay and would then work back from there. These attractions are the main focal points of your tour.

However, Samphire Hoe and the Battle of Britain Memorial are available depending on the time and choices that you make throughout the day. I'd always choose to get you to these two places too if I possibly can.
The three key areas are guaranteed to be included.
There's a bit more information in my Bio about these attractions.
Important Notice.
Dover Castle is only open on weekends from November 2022 until Mon 13th Feb 2023.

Dover Castle, The White Cliffs of Dover and St Margret's Bay. Plus several other unmissable sites.

Canterbury is celebrated in the greatest work of medieval literature in English, Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and was the birthplace of the Elizabethan dramatist - and probable government spy - Christopher Marlowe.

Let me bring 'The Canterbury Tales' to life for you by taking you to the places which Chaucer and 'wel nyne and trenty in a compaignye' would have seen as well as others associated with individual pilgrims and tales. I'll also introduce you to the colourful life of Kit Marlowe who lived fast and dangerously and died young and violently but who left us plays and poetry of enduring power and beauty which influenced his exact contemporary, one William Shakespeare. Canterbury's literary connections do not end there, however; I'll show you sites associated with writers as eminent as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and T. S. Eliot and reveal associations with living writers such as Michael Morpurgo and Kazuo Ishiguro - for 'specially from every shire's ende of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende'.

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