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Here are several
really special GROUP TOUR packages. Each offers more
focused and detailed insight into the world of the Amish, often with
"hands-on" participation and "gifts" for each visitor. Available to groups of 25 or more
on their own motorcoach.
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Amish Country Cookin'
Tour


We cooked up an entire tour focused on our
yummy delights….from chow chow to whoopie pies! We’ll not only tell you
how we make them, but give your group some cookin' practice of their
own!
Cooking
Demonstration - At Plain &
Fancy Farm, we’ll pull the chef out of the kitchen for an exclusive,
behind-the-scenes food demonstration at the place that made Penn Dutch
family-style dining famous. The chef will pick one or two people from
the group to help us prepare some local specialties….chicken pot pie and
shoofly pie. It may get a little messy, but we’ll have everyone laughing
during this true “hands-on” experience.
Food Tasting
Tour - An Amish Country Tour
guide will step on your bus for visits to three nearby stops. Each stop
is interactive for everyone in the group. Enjoy a chance to
sample local jams, jellies, and relishes. Tour a pretzel factory and try
twisting your own pretzel. Finally, participate in an “olde worlde”
wine-tasting before dinner.
Family-Style
Dinner - At Plain & Fancy you
can now enjoy your all-you-can-eat dinner served at long tables “right
in the barn.” Here you will sample most of the foods you’ve learned
about, and many more…. the fresh breads, pepper cabbage, and chow chow ---
fried chicken, baked ham, meatloaf --- buttered noodles, corn, and chicken pot pie --- shoofly pie, apple dumplings,
chocolate cake with peanut butter icing, ice
cream, and more.
A Special Gift
- As a souvenir, everyone takes home a real Amish cookbook. We say
"real" because it’s
written, illustrated, and personally signed by an Amish friend of ours.
So now you can try some Amish Country Cookin’ at home!
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The
Old & the MOO


Offer your group a brand MOO tour! We created a
tour with two truly unique experiences. Discover how milk reaches your
table from the source --- cows! You'll be amazed by what you see. It's
an exclusive Amish Experience tour that is great for adults, educational
for students, and fun for everyone!
Cow Stop #1: Amish Dairy Farm -
We've made special arrangements with an Amish farmer to personally
conduct a tour of his farm. See how the cows are milked mechanically and
the milk kept cool with "Amish electricity." Visit some of the other
farm buildings, see the animals, and get a chance to talk with an Amish
farmer.
BONUSES
- Our tour package includes admission to the special effects
production of "Jacob's Choice" in the Amish Experience Theater. This
provides background on the Amish, their history, and lifestyle to
further enhance your visit. The services of a step-on guide will also be
provided to add further information on the Amish and agriculture in the
county...and to make sure you don't get lost!
Cow Stop #2: Kreider Farms -
It's high tech milkin' time! Over 1,500 cows milked and fed
automatically 24 hours a day, housed in titanic barns ("cow palaces") so
big your bus will drive right through them. Get out to see the "cow
carousel," a revolving milking platform that every hour takes 300
"ladies" (cows, that is) on a milking ride that is udderly unbelievable.
A
Free Sample
- The perfect way to end this tour is with a complimentary ice cream
cone. You'll leave with a new appreciation of the diversity and
techniques of milk production in Lancaster County!
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Amish Wedding
Celebration

Join us to participate in our original Amish Wedding Tour, designed to
give you insights into the fascinating wedding
traditions of the Amish, rarely experienced by the rest of us.
Countryside Tour
– Our guide will step on your bus to travel the backroads and tell the
group about the unique wedding customs observed by the Lancaster Amish,
with a stop at a roadside stand, bake or crafts shop, or Amish farm. You
will learn about courtship, the wedding preparations and church service,
and the “honey-mooning” Amish-style that follows.
Jacob’s Choice
- You will enjoy the Amish Experience Theater’s presentation of “Jacob’s
Choice,” as we follow an Amish boy’s struggle with his family and his
girlfriend during his courting years.
Wedding Ceremony
- Everyone will participate as we re-enact the Amish wedding vows right
in the Amish Country Homestead. Pick the “side-sitters” and the couple to
be married. The “newlyweds” receive a wedding “certificate.” (We can
even put their names on the wedding cake with advance notice!) And
everyone receives a surprise “wedding gift” to take home!
Special Wedding Feast
- Then, enjoy a specially prepared table setting and all-you-can-eat
dinner at Plain & Fancy Farm, the original family style restaurant…..
The
Wedding Feast Menu
♥ Tables decorated with Celery Flowered
Centerpiece ♥ Baked Lancaster County Ham
with Cider Sauce
♥ Homemade Meat Loaf
♥ Amish Wedding Chicken Filling
♥ Mashed Potatoes
♥ Dried Sweet Corn
♥ Traditional Creamed Celery
♥ Pepper Cabbage
♥ Applesauce
♥ Breads with Apple Butter
♥ Coffee,
Hot Tea, Water, Lemonade
♥ Shoofly Pie, Apple Dumplings, Ice Cream
♥ Nuts & Candy
♥ Decorated Wedding Cake ♥
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From One Room to
Rumspringa

Explore the lives of Amish children and teens. After the infamous Amish
reality TV series "Amish in the City," the word "rumspringa"
entered the English language. This is the "running around" period when
young Amish teens have some freedom, but soon need to make a decision on
whether to join the church and be Amish, or choose life in the "outside
world." Much misunderstood, this tour aims to set the record straight by
interaction with a member of the Amish community. It's as real as it
gets!
Amish Interaction - We
will talk with a member of the local Amish community who will describe
what it is like to grow up, what happens after the eighth grade, and
what "rumspringa" is really like for Amish teenagers. There will also be
time for questions and answers from the "horse's mouth," so to speak.
This visit is usually on an actual Amish farm. Your guided tour of the
farmlands will also normally include a stop at another local Amish
business, since not all Amish young people now become farmers.
Learning at Home & at School -
Enter the county's only "Heritage Site" Amish house for a look at
growing up Amish from a child's point of view. Included will be some
Amish schoolroom games for all to play, followed by a tour of the nine-room
Amish Country Homestead to look at Plain clothing and living without electricity. (On your farmlands tour, you will also drive by several
Amish one-room schools.)
"Jacob's Choice" -
This Amish Experience Theater production explores both the history of
the Amish and the life of a teenage Amish boy who is torn between his
Amish family and the allure of the modern world. Dramatically told on
five
screens with special effects all around you, it is a unique blending of
entertainment and education that takes you into the heart and soul of
what it means to be Amish.
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An Amish Country Christmas
Here is a
Christmas package that literally covers 1000’s of years of Christmas
traditions. We’ll take you from Bethlehem, where you’ll walk the
streets with Joseph and Mary, to Victorian Christmas celebrations, and
right up to modern times. Oh, and we’ll throw in our own special
Pennsylvania Dutch and Amish Christmas traditions as well. After all,
Lancaster is the home of the first documented Christmas tree! The tour
includes:
Guided
Holiday Amish Farmlands Tour –
Your guide
steps on your bus for a countryside tour with a focus on
Pennsylvania German Christmas traditions and shopping stops, including
crafts at an Amish farm (Mon. – Sat.), and maybe a bake shop, too.
Olde World Wine-Tasting
– Enjoy sampling some hot mulled holiday wine and cheeses at the Mt.
Hope Wine Gallery. Our holiday gift to all is a souvenir wine goblet.
Special Tour of the Amish Country Homestead –
This furnished nine-room Amish home is
a Lancaster County Heritage Site. At the end of the guided tour, receive
a yummy Christmas cookie from the oven and our unique recipe for
“Scripture Cake.”

The
National Christmas Center
– Thrill to one of the world’s most extensive and amazing indoor
Christmas displays. Experience the first Christmas, walk through Tudor
Village with hundreds of animated figures, dioramas of local Christmas
customs, plus Christmas trees, trains, and trivia. Even Uncle Scrooge
will leave with a twinkle in his eye with memories of Christmases past!
Make your
visit even more special by adding one or more of the following ----
“A Charles Dickens Christmas”
celebration at Mount Hope Estate & Winery
Holiday show at American Music Theatre
“Miracle of Christmas” at Sight & Sound
Millennium Theatre
An “all-you-can eat” family style dinner
at Plain & Fancy Farm
A spectacular selection of foods and
desserts at Miller’s Smorgasbord
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