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Days Swiss Fun | 7
Days Swiss Ski + Shopping | 7
Days Swiss Winter Hiking | 10
Days Swiss Winter
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Days Swiss Wonderland | Tour
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7
Days / 6 Nights Swiss Leisure (without Winter Activities)
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Highlights
- Discover:
Zürich or Schaffhausen, Appenzell, Lenzerheide, Davos,
Bellinzona, Chur, St. Moritz or Engadin villages, Feldkirch (Austria),
Vaduz (Liechtenstein).
- Attractions:
- lunch at a restaurant that was once an arsenal
- Christmas market (for tours in December)
- prettiest small town in Switzerland
- queen of the north-eastern Swiss Alps for a spectacular view of 5
countries (optional)
- horse carriage ride in the picturesque countryside passing by frozen
lakes (optional)
- oldest city in Switzerland
- lunch in the knights' or hunters' room at a 600-year-old castle
- 6th smallest country in the world
- panorama train ride on the Bernina Express (optional)
- Top of Switzerland to see the highest mountains (ice-packed) of the
eastern Alps & glacier (optional)
- various outdoor & indoor mountain spring mineral thermal
pools (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. Complimentary welcome drink during dinner.
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(Note:
If you have been to Zürich, it might be replaceable with Rhine
Falls (largest waterfall in Europe) and 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.)
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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 sports resort where
ex-British Prime Minister, took her twins to learn skiing. Take a walk
along a frozen lake and see cross-country skiers in action on the
frozen lakes. Here, you have various optional tours to choose from: 1)
Take a chairlift ride up to one of the mountains in the largest and
highest canton of Switzerland, Graubünden, for an impressive
360* panoramic view of the south-eastern Swiss Alps (optional) 2) Let
Swiss horses take you on a carriage ride in through villages, passing
by frozen lakes (optional). 3) Rodel tobogganin on the world's longest
toboggan run on rails at 3.1 km long. Decide your own speed! 4) Take a
gondola ride and a cable car ride up to the summit of a mountain to
have a view of 1000 summits of the Alps on a clear day.
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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. Explore city or visit the
medieval castle(s). Experience the Saturday morning market and feel a
different ambiance. Next go to a beautiful lakeside town situated at
the foot of the southern Swiss Alps.
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Chur
– situated at
the crossroads of the River Rhine which is one of the longest rivers in
Europe, this capital of canton Graubünden and oldest
city of Switzerland was where traders and merchants
flocked. Interesting shops: crystal shop, household products
shop with a wide range of interesting knives, and gourmet shops
offering specialties from the region like pear bread, air dried meat,
honey, cheese, beverages etc are available here. If you are
interested in alpine nature (e.g. alpine animals, alpine forests,
alpine rocks, etc), the Nature Museum is worth a visit. Next, go across
the nearby border to Austria to the city of Feldkirch. Then hop across
another border to Liechtenstein and visit the capital city of Vaduz. A
good range of cuckoo clocks is available here.
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.
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Today we
visit the eastern part of
Switzerland, St. Moritz, a renowned winter destination in the Upper
Engadin Valley where the wealthy go to enjoy their riches and where the
Alpine Ski World Championship 2003 as well as the Winter Olympics 1928
& 1948 were hosted. The town is yours to explore. Optional: 1)
Panorama train ride on the Bernina Express from Thusis to Samedan where
we pick you up and proceed to St Moritz. The Bernina Express is the
most scenic of all the train routes in Switzerland and is inscribed on
the UNESCO World Heritage list. 2) a visit to one of the mountains in
the eastern Swiss Alps for a very impressive 360° view of the
Alps including a close view of the Bernina range, the highest mountain
range in the Eastern Alps. 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
Zürich airport 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
accommodation in
countryside town.
- 6 buffet
breakfasts. (Not included
for budget tours)
- 6 dinners. (Not
included for budget
tours)
- 1 driver-guide.
- 1 tour guide.
- 1 touring vehicle.
Tour
Schedule & Booking | 7
Days Swiss Fun | 7
Days Swiss Ski + Shopping | 7
Days Swiss Winter Hiking |
10
Days Swiss Winter | 14
Days Swiss Wonderland
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