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Sound of Music
10 Days From $1,590USd (Subtract
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Featuring: Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck,
Neuschwanstein, Oberammergau, Munich
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Day 1 Depart USA Overnight flight to Vienna.
Day 2 Arrive Vienna (3nights) You are met at Vienna
airport and transferred to your hotel. After check-in time to relax
and unwind before meeting your Tour Director and fellow travelling
companions for a welcome drink. This evening, why not try some delicious
schnitzel and strudel for a truly Austrian dinner?
Day 3 Vienna sightseeing & at leisure Our morning
sightseeing tour with a local guide features the monuments and palaces
of this musical city. The Imperial Boulevards lead us to the Opera
House, the Hofburg Palace, the Parliament and St. Stephen's Cathedral.
Later, free time perhaps to indulge in some Sachertorte and cream
in some Sachertorte and cream in a tempting pastry shop. Or why not
take an excursion to Maria Theresa von Habsburg's favourite palace
- the Schonbrunn, with its delighful fountains and gardens? This evening,
perhaps treat yourself to a concert of Viennese Classical music. (Buffet
Breakfast)
Day 4 Vienna Woods Excursion Our local expert takes
us on a scenic drive into the nearby Vienna Woods where we stop to
see Mayerling, and the hunting lodge where Crown Prince Rudolph and
his young mistress died in 1898. We also stop at Heiligenkreuz to
visit the Abbey of the Holy Cross. Then there's time at leisure, perhaps
to window-shop in Kartnerstrasse or visit a museum. Tonight, we enjoy
a delicious dinner of Viennese spealities in a wine village Heurige.
(Buffet Breakfast/ Restaurant dinner)
Day 5 Vienna - Salzkammergut - Salzburg (2nights) We
drive along the Valley of the River Danube past Melk, where we see
Austria's greatest baroque monastery. From here we continue along
the Danube Valley to the area known as the Salzkammergut. At Gmunden,
with its beautiful Lake Chateau, we enjoy a tranquil and scenic drive
along the shores of the Traunsee and Attersee, the largest lake in
the Austrian Alps, to the Mondsee Lake. We stop in the village to
see the Church where the marriage of Captain Von Trapp and Maria was
filmed for "The Sound of Music". Finally we reach the sugar-icing
city of Salzburg for two nights. (Buffet Breakfast/ Dinner)
Day 6 Salzburg sightseeing & at leisure Today's
morning sightseeing on foot with a local guide shows us the Getreidergasse
with it's colourful shops, the majestic Cathedral and many of the
locations used in the film, 'The Sound of Music', as well as the birthplace
of the great composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Later, you may wish
to relax in one of the delightful coffee-houses or to shop in the
chic boutiques. We will enjoy dinner at our hotel this evening.
(Buffet Breakfast/ Dinner)
Day 7 Salzburg - Berchtesgaden - Innsbruck This morning
it's only a short drive into Bavarian Germany and to the National
Park of Berchtesgaden - Hitler's favourite summer resort. We'll stop
in the town before leaving Germany to re-enter Austria and the province
of the Tyrol. From here we continue past the Wilder Kaiser Mountains
to the valley of the green River Inn, bringing us to the Alpine resort
which grew up around the bridge over the Inn, Innsbruck. Here our
orientation tour shows us the Wilten Basilica, as well as the Olympic
ski-jump and the old town with its Golden Roof and Hofburg Palace.
This evening, after dinner at our hotel, why not take part in some
thigh-slapping fun at a Tyrolean Folklore Show? (Buffet Breakfast/
Dinner)
Day 8 Innsbruck - Neuschwanstein Castle - Munich (2nights)
This morning we will return to the Bavarian mountains and Germany's
most famous building, mad King Ludwig's Neuschwanstein Castle. We
ascend to the entrance by horse and carriage and enjoy a guided tour
of the interior. Afterwards, it is only a short drive to the Passion
Play village of Oberammergau. Here there is time to admire the many
ornate wall-paintings on the village houses and to perhaps visit the
Passion Play theatre before we arrive at fun-loving Munich. Dinner
tonight is a Bavarian supper in a typical tavern. (Buffet Breakfast/
Restaurant dinner)
Day 9 Munich orientation & at leisure After breakfast
we head out on our morning orientation tour which will show us the
Hofbrauhaus, the Marienplatz with its Glockenspiel, and the majestic
Opera house. Then time at leisure to do some shopping and perhaps
to visit some of the museums. On the final night of our tour why not
get together with your fellow travelling companions and enjoy a few
steins of beer in one of the may beer-halls? (Buffet Breakfast)
Day 10 Munich - USA Bid farewell as we transfer you
to Munich Airport for your return flight to America, at the end of
this finely tuned tour. (Buffet Breakfast)
