Cannot make it to Memphis? Elvis Presley’s Graceland starting virtual excursions

FILE – In an Aug. 15, 2017 file photograph, lovers wait around in line outside the house Graceland, Elvis Presley’s Memphis home, in Memphis, Tenn. Elvis Presley’s Graceland suggests it will reopen Thursday, May perhaps 21, 2020 following it shut down tours and reveals due to the new coronavirus outbreak. (AP Picture/Brandon Dill, File)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Elvis Presley’s Graceland is now featuring on-line tours for followers around the planet, such as those who cannot travel to the Tennessee tourist attraction for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.

Graceland explained the two-hour guided tours will get digital guests into Presley’s previous Memphis home, which has been turned into a museum, and via the Meditation Back garden, exactly where he is buried. The singer and actor died in Memphis on Aug. 16, 1977.

Also bundled in the $100 ticket is a tour of Presley’s jet and a wander by way of the enjoyment complicated, which homes displays and artifacts similar to Presley.

Graceland usually hosts hundreds of thousands of people a 12 months. But the tourist attraction has noticed a drop in readers all through the virus outbreak. Graceland was closed for various weeks past year and is now open for constrained-ability, in-individual tours.

Virtual excursions are scheduled for Jan. 27, Feb. 25, and March 25, with more dates predicted.