VENICE, where even the traffic jams with the chintzy gondolas are impressive. Florence, a charismatic city you’d be sorry to miss. Nice, where sun seekers can sip cocktails on Para soled lounges lining its pebbled shores. The Backpacker Co. is offering it all!

What's even better? You actually get to visit the CANNES AD FESTIVAL.

Join Suchna and Yogi from the 13th to the 26th of June, 2009 on a tour that will not only make you see wonderful sights that each place has to offer, but will help you relish each experience for what it’s worth.

Applications for the trip close on 20th May, 2009.

Itinerary: 13th - 26th June, 2009

12th of June night (13th early morning), we depart from Mumbai airport for Venice and are all set for our backpacking adventure.

13th June: Venice

Venice is a hauntingly beautiful place: a strange, surreal city in which everyday life seems somehow more dramatic than elsewhere. Even Venetian traffic jams are impressive – chintzy gondolas, vaporetti (water buses) and delivery barges, all massed on the Grand Canal

14th June: Venice – Rome

Rome: just the name conjures 2700 years of Western civilization. Possibly the most influential city the world has ever seen, Rome might now be filled with more foreigners carrying maps of Rome than actual Roman citizens.

However, its storied past and legendary buildings overpower and captivate even the most jaded of visitors. From the iconic Colosseum to the medieval winding streets of Trastevere, practically every centimeter of Rome is saturated in history or is artistically inspired, or both.