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Included Features:
• Round
trip air transportation
• English speaking tour director throughout
• Accommodations in First Class and select
hotels in twin bedded rooms
with private bath
• Breakfast and dinner daily
• All transfers and sightseeing per itinerary
by private, deluxe motor
coach
• Entrance fees for included features
• Taxes, tips and service charges for all
included features except tour
escort and driver
• Baggage handling included throughout the
tour for one suitcase per
person, irrespective of air carrier
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Not
included:
• Items not specifically mentioned in itinerary
• Items of a person nature such as passport fees
• Tips to tour escort and driver
• Beverages with dinner
• Additional baggage other than one piece allowed as
mentioned in the
itinerary
• Airport departure taxes
• Airport taxes, fees, Fuel & security
surcharges, and
September 11th Security Fee
• Travel insurance
• Visas, etc.
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DAY 1/ DEPARTURE
Depart USA to Austria. Your flight includes meals, drinks,
and
in-flight entertainment for your journey.
DAY 2/ VIENNA
Arrive and transfer to your hotel. Balance of the day at
leisure.
Tonight, enjoy a traditional Heurigen dinner at typical
restaurant in
the suburb of Neustift, featuring local cuisine,
homemade wines and
entertainment.
DAY 3/ VIENNA
This morning's sightseeing tour features the Hofburg,
the former
Imperial Palace, and a drive along the famous Ring. View
the State
Opera House, Empress Maria Theresia Monument, Votive
Church, City Hall,
Belvedere Palace, Prater amusement park and St.
Stephen's Cathedral
along with other landmarks of the city's imperial
history. This
afternoon visit Schonbrunn Palace
and Gardens, the former summer residence of the Habsburg
family. This
evening, if you wish, attend an optional Mozart and
Strauss concert
(includes transportation).
DAY 4/ PRAGUE
Travel via Durnstein into Southern Bohemia to the
charming 14th Century
town of Telč. A brief orientation tour includes the
Renaissance Town
Square, medieval city gates and hilltop Telč Castle.
Continue to
Prague, "city
of a hundred spires." Balance of the day at leisure.
DAY 5/ PRAGUE
A morning sightseeing tour of Prague includes a visit to
the Royal
Castle at Hradcany, former residence of the Bohemian
kings. Enjoy
magnificent views of the city and Charles Bridge below.
View St. Vitus
Cathedral and St. George's Basilica and walk the Golden
Lane. Continue
to Charles Bridge, the Jewish Ghetto and the Old Town
Square with its
famous Astronomical
Clock. Afternoon at leisure or enjoy an optional cruise
on the Vltava
River.
DAY 6/ BERLIN
After breakfast you will travel via Dresden on the Elbe
River enroute
to Berlin. You will have a brief orientation tour
enroute to your hotel.
DAY 7/
BERLIN
Morning sightseeing includes the Reichstag, which once
housed the
German Parliament, and Schloss Charlottenburg. View the
Opera, the
Schiller Theater, Brandenburg Gate, the "Wall" and the
Kaiser Wilhelm
Memorial Church. Afternoon is at leisure.
DAY 8/ LEIPZIG AREA
This morning, following breakfast, proceed to
Wittenberg, designated as
"Lutherstadt" ("Luther Town"). It was here that Luther
gained notoriety
by posting his 95 theses to the door of the Castle
Church, thus
sparking the movement that would become the Reformation.
DAY 9/ EISENACH
This is Luther country, strongly associated with
Reformation history.
You will visit Leipzig, where Bach served as choirmaster
for 25 years
and is buried at Thomaskirche. Along the way are the
Luther sights in
Eisleben and Erfurt, such as the flamboyant gothic
Cathedral and the
Augustinian Monastery where Luther was ordained.
DAY 10/ EISENACH
After breakfast your day of sightseeing begins with a
visit to the Bach
House, where Johann Sebastian Bach was born, Luther
House which is now
a museum dedicated to the life of Luther, and Warburg
Castle, an
imposing fortress that is a symbol of German pageantry
which offers
splendid panoramas of the city.
DAY 11/ FRANKFURT AREA
Eisenach is left behind after breakfast as you begin a
full day of
sightseeing. First is the medieval city of Marburg,
famous for its
magnificent Gothic Cathedral where locals often dress in
traditional
peasant costume. This afternoon, we embark on a brief
Rhine cruise past
castles, vineyards and charming villages. Afterwards, we
continue to
Worms, one of Germany's oldest cities. Here you will
tour the Luther
Monument, the Church of Our Lady (Liebfraukirche).
Tonight, enjoy a
farewell dinner.
DAY 12/ HOME
Bid a fond farewell to Europe today as you proceed to
the airport
for your flight home, bringing with you an abundance of
special
memories
to treasure forever.
WELCOME
HOME!
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