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Spring | 14
Days Enchanting Switzerland | Tour
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7
Days / 6 Nights Swiss Vista
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Highlights
- Discover:
Zürich or Schaffhausen, Appenzell, Lenzerheide, Davos,
Bellinzona,
St. Moritz or Engadin villages, Feldkirch (Austria), Vaduz
(Liechtenstein).
- Attractions:
- lunch at a restaurant that was once an arsenal
- prettiest small town in Switzerland
- authentic town where the inhabitants are very proud of their
traditions
- queen of the north-eastern Swiss Alps for a splendid view of 5
countries (optional)
- strawberry-picking in organic orchard, if in season
- resort where one of the Ski World Cup events is held every year,
where the Federer family has one of their holiday homes
- horse carriage ride through villages in the picturesque countryside
passing by lakes (optional)
- mountain visit for a 360° panoramic view of the Swiss Alps in
Graubünden (optional)
- Saturday morning market (if tour falls on Saturday)
- lunch picnic at UNESCO World Heritage medieval castle compound
- Heidi village
- lunch in knights' or hunters' room at a 600-year-old castle
- 6th smallest country in the world
- playground of the rich and famous
- Top
of Switzerland mountain visit for an impressive view of ice-packed
mountains, layers after layers of mountains of the Swiss Alps, lake
plateau (3 lakes in a row) & glacier (optional)
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Arrival
and pick up at Zürich airport / Zürich main train
station /
hotel in Zürich. Proceed to a charming medieval town in the
northern part of Switzerland, also known as 'the prettiest small town
in Switzerland' situated at the River Rhine. Next, go to
Zürich.
After lunch, walk along elegant Bahnhofstrasse - a shopping stretch -
and visit a very pretty chocolate-cum-confectionery shop and a very
well-known chocolate boutique-cum-café. After that, walk
through
narrow lanes in the Old Town area where the largest clockface in Europe
awaits you just around the corner. Then take a walk up one of the twin
towers of the Grossmünster and have a bird's-eye view of the
city
of Zürich (optional).
A scenic drive along the Lake of Zürich, Lake Walen and the
majestic Churfirsten mountain range to the Holiday Corner of
Switzerland. Welcome to the land of 150 valleys, 615 alpine lakes and
937 mountain peaks. Pass the Heidi World, THE Pinot Noir region of
Switzerland and the oldest city in Switzerland. Continue to drive
through Graubünden, the most diversified and largest but the
least
densely populated canton of Switzerland, known for her widely untouched
landscapes and home to three of the four cultures of Switzerland.
Drive into the valley of castles & ruins before checking into
your
hotel embedded at the foot of an inner alpine valley, also known as the
‘Orchard of Graubünden'. Here, in the geographic
heart of
the Alps, is the crossroads of the high and ancient alpine
passes.
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(Note:
If you have been to Zürich, it might be
replaceable with Rhine Falls (largest waterfall in Europe) Schaffhausen
where you discover the rare beauty and cultural diversity of this
charming town with its delightful countryside, situated along the River
Rhine next to Germany. The houses of the Old Town are richly decorated
with 171 oriels and valuable murals. Narrow streets invite the visitor
to stroll and shop, and if the weather is warm enough, the streets of
the car-free town centers are transformed into pocket-size Parisian
boulevards. These historical treasures date back to the Middle Ages.
Optional: a visit to a majestic 16th century fortress.)
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Appenzell: visit this lovely
canton known not
only for her beautiful countryside landscapes but also for her
specialties like cheese, milk, sausages, beer etc. The town is
yours to admire - typical Appenzeller houses that are beautifully
painted. (Optional: A gondola ride to the queen of the north-eastern
Swiss Alps, for a spectacular view of the Alps in 5 countries
or a
breath-taking vista of a sea of clouds over the valleys. Or visit
another nice nearby mountain. All depending on weather conditions.)
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Visit a
winter & summer sports resort where one of the Ski World Cup
events
is held every year in March, where former British Prime Minister, Mrs
Margaret Thatcher, took her twins to learn skiing and where the Federer
family has one of their holiday homes. Here, you have various optional
tours to choose from: (1) Horse carriage ride through the villages in
this picturesque countryside, passing by lakes where families go to
enjoy the summer with their children (2) cable-car/chairlift ride up to
one of the mountains of the largest and highest canton of Switzerland,
Graubünden, for a stunning 360° panoramic
view of the south-eastern Swiss Alps or a view of 1000 summits (3)
rodel tobogganing on the world's longest toboggan run on rails at 3.1
km long. Decide your own speed! If time permits and if in season, go to
an organic strawberry farm.
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Bellinzona
- capital of the Italian-speaking canton Ticino in the southern part of
Switzerland, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its city walls
and 3 famous castles enclosing a picturesque vineyard. Experience the
Saturday morning market and feel a different ambiance. Next, visit the
castle(s) or do some shopping. If the weather permits, have a lunch
picnic at the castle compound. Then visit the famous medieval bridge in
a valley where the opening scene of James Bond 007
‘Goldeneye’ was filmed or go to a beautiful
lakeside town
situated at the foot of the southern Swiss Alps.
OR
If weather permits, we do an optional tour: a panorama
train
ride on the Bernina Express
which got inscribed on the UNESCO
World Heritage List on 7
July 2008 for being a
masterpiece of engineering
amidst panoramic landscapes and
cultural diversity. Enjoy riding the most famous train in the Alps on
board the Rhaetian Railway panorama coach whose north alpine route is a
145-km stretch that cuts through Graubünden, boasting the most
beautiful railway routes in the world. During the trip over the Bernina
pass, the train reaches an altitude of 2.253 m (7.390 ft) and masters
gradients of 70%. The Bernina Express runs without cogwheels, on the
highest long-distance railway transversal in the Alps over up to more
then 200-metre long and 90-metre high bridges, through winding tunnels,
past raging mountain torrents, glaciers and a rich array of alpine
flowers to southerly Valposchiavo, over the spiralling viaduct at
Brusio and on to Tirano in Italy.
Note: If the weather is not suitable for train ride today, you still
have the opportunity to do it another day.
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The
story of the little girl, Heidi, originates from a village in the Swiss
countryside. Visit Heidi village to see the Heidi house with Heidi's
room, attic, living room, cellar, kitchen etc like it was over 100
years ago. Then go across the nearby border to Austria to the city of
Feldkirch. Next, hop across another close-by border to Liechtenstein
and visit the capital city of Vaduz. A good range of cuckoo clocks is
available here. If you are interested in alpine nature (e.g. alpine
animals etc), the Liechtenstein National Museum is worth a visit.
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Today we
visit the eastern part of Switzerland, St. Moritz, in the Upper Engadin
Valley where the wealthy go to enjoy their riches and where the Ski
World Championship 2003 as well as the Winter Olympics 1928 &
1948
were hosted. Optional: A visit to one of the mountains in the eastern
Swiss Alps for a very impressive 360° view of the Alps
including
a view of the Bernina range, the highest mountain range in the
Eastern Alps; lake plateau (3 lakes in a row) and glacier. On a clear
day, depending on the sun's rays, 7 or 8 layers of mountain ranges can
be seen from here! Graubünden has the most number of mountain
peaks in the Alps exceeding 3000 m, making it the highest region in the
Alps and earning it the name 'the roof of Europe'.
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(Note:
If you have been to St. Moritz, it might be
replaceable with visits to quaint villages in the Lower Engadin Valley
where people go to see typical Engadiner sgraffito-painted houses with
huge doors and sunken in funnel-like windows decorated with flowers.
Optional: Take dips in various outdoor & indoor mountain spring
mineral thermal pools.)
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Hotel
check-out. Scenic ride to Zürich airport / Zürich
main train
station / hotel in Zürich. Please do NOT schedule your flight
to
depart Switzerland before 10:45 am.
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Note
1) As we would very much want
our travellers to get the most out of our tours, the sequence and/or
parts of the content of the above itinerary are subject to changes
depending on weather conditions, forthcoming special events and
unforeseen circumstances.
2) Some tours are included as optional tours because travellers MUST
have the choice not to choose them in case of bad weather. In
Switzerland, views from the summit of mountains are not always
visible. Sometimes there is ZERO visibility due to low or
heavy
clouds. If the optionals are included in the tour
price,
then the mountain visit is a must-do even when the weather is not
suitable for a mountain visit. This would be unfair to the
unaware traveller and it would be a wasted
trip. We always
check the weather one day before and advise our travellers
if the
scheduled mountain visit would be good or
not.
Otherwise, we either shuffle the itinerary and do the mountain visit
another day when the weather is good (as per forecast) or advise them
not to do it at all when the next days are not suitable for mountain
visits. For other optional tours like horse-carriage rides, thermal
pools, etc, some travellers might not want to do them for some reason
or some may have done them before.
3) It might be possible to change the above itinerary to an
all-Switzerland holiday. Please write to us at tours
@ tour168.ch.
4) If you have been to a few of the above-mentioned places but would
like to visit other not-to-be-missed places or experience some
interesting activities, we might be able to do some alteration. Do
write to us.
What's included:
- Transfer to and fro Zürich
airport / Zürich main train station / hotel in
Zürich.
(Transfer to Zürich on last day not included for budget tours.
Top-up applies.)
- 6 nights hotel accomodation in
countryside town.
- 6 Swiss buffet breakfasts. (Not
included for budget tours)
- 6 Swiss dinners. (Not included for
budget tours)
- 1 driver-guide.
- 1
tour guide.
- 1 touring vehicle.
Tour
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Days Enchanting Switzerland
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