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2000 Tour Gallery - Page 3
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The ancestral home of John's family, on a Heritage Tour we search to find your living relatives, with a 90 % success rate ! | 
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With our advanced research John's relatives were waiting for his arrival, with many old pictures and stories. |
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The wonderful Ceske Krumlov, in southern Bohemia. | 
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Heritage Tours staged another folk program with over 35 people from one village in South Bohemia performing. They out numbered our small group of 17 people by over 2 to one ! These are some on the ladies singing village folk songs for us. |
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Next was the capping ceremony" where the bride exchanges her headpiece for the wedding headpiece. | 
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Part of a traditional wedding dance, all about pivo (beer). |
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Some of the ladies wore historic kroj ( folk dress ) made of fish scales ( the vest ) these are very rarely seen outside of museums. ( the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids Iowa, have one of these historic kroj in their collection ) | 
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Just one of the small back roads traveled by Heritage Tours. |
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These two young ladies entertained us with Bohemian bagpipe music, at a stop to see a local folk artist. | 
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Another Heritage Tour find, a historic village cemetery. |
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The only one surrounded by a wall of saints in central Europe, it dates back over 600 years. | 
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The statue of St. John of Nepomuk ( the protector of bridges ) on the oldest stone bridge in Central Europe built about 1330 in Pisek. |
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The main square in Plzen, west Bohemia. | 
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Another birthday celebrated on the tour. |
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