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14
Days / 13 Nights West Switzerland
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This,
like all
our other authentic itineraries, is a cleverly planned itinerary taking
into consideration the dynamic weather conditions so that the sceneries
can be optimised thus maximising the benefits to our travellers. The
first itinerary of its kind to apply the smart concept of travelling,
it is second to none.
Highlights
- Discover:
Lucerne, Interlaken, Zermatt, Leukerbad, Martigney, Geneva, Yvoire
(France), Le Locle, La Chaux de Fonds, Gruyères, Broc,
Gstaad,
Bern, Murten.
- Attractions:
- Prettiest city in Switzerland
- A town situated between two lakes
- Glacial village situated at the foot of the highest range of
mountains on Swiss ground
- Car-free town of Zermatt
- Best View of the Matterhorn
- The BEST wooden houses in Switzerland
- Largest underground lake in Europe
- The BEST glacier cave in Switzerland and world's largest ice pavilion
- St Bernard Dogs
- World Health Organisation, Red Cross, United Nations
- Very charming medieval French town
- Chocolate Factory
- Cheese Factory
- Watch Factory
- Resort where many celebraties have their second homes
- Capital of Switzerland
- Einstein House
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| Day
1 |
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Arrival
and pick up at
Zürich airport / Zürich main train station / Hotel in
Zürich.
Visit
Lucerne in the heart of Switzerland. See the Chapel Bridge or walk
along the Musegg Wall to have a bird's eye view of this picturesque
city. Swiss cultural show (optional). Visit the Picasso Museum and/or
The Rosengart Museum where paintings of the great masters of Europe are
displayed. If you are a watch lover or collector, this city is your
paradise. Collect your free souvenir gifts (guide will provide coupon).
And / OR Visit Mt Titlis if the weather permits (optional). |
| Day
2 |
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We
visit the town of
Interlaken, situated between two lakes. Free time to walk in the town.
Collect your free souvenir gift (guide will provide coupon).
Optional:
a visit to Mount Gloria where the James Bond movie On Her Majesty
Secret Service was filmed in 1969. From here, you have the BEST
VIEW of the Jungfrau group of mountains, Eiger, Mönch and
Jungfrau, plus a 360° view of the Swiss Alps in the Bernese
Highlands .
After the mountain visit, we visit a LIVE open air museum at
Ballenberg. |
| Day
3 |
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We
have a choice of the
following optional tours:
1)
Jungfraujoch - Top of
Europe (full day excursion)
In the morning, take a panorama train ride (2 hrs 30 min) up
to
Jungfraujoch where the highest railway station in Europe is and hence
the name Top of Europe.
2)
Trümmelbach Falls
These are
a series of ten glacier-waterfalls inside the mountain made accessible
by tunnel-lift and illuminated. The Trümmelbach alone drains
the
mighty glacier defiles of Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau mountains.
They belong to the UNESCO
World Heritage Site and
are listed in the Federal
Inventory of Landscapes and Natural
Monuments of National Importance of Switzerland.
3)
Beatus Caves.
Here, you see the Milton Cave, the Three Sisters Cave and the Middle
Cave which took millions of years to form. |
| Day
4 |
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Visit this
resort town which is situated just below the highest group of mountains
on Swiss ground. Very experienced skiers prefer the ski runs here and
it's also snowboarders' paradise.
Optional:
take a funicular train and visit the BEST
glacier cave in
Switzerland. Have your
lunch at the world's largest revolving
restaurant overlooking the valley below and providing a view to the
highest group of mountains on Swiss grounds and the glacier world.
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| Day
5 |
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Today, we
take a train to Zermatt. Walk in the town, visit the Alpine Museum etc.
If the weather permits, we do an optional tour: take a cog-wheel train
up to Gornergrat to have the
BEST VIEW of the Matterhorn,
close-up.
Please note that the Matterhorn, being a high mountain, is not always
visible as she can sometimes be hidden behind the clouds. If needed, we
will shuffle today's program to a day suitable to view this Swiss icon.
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| Day
6 |
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If weather
permits, the following optional tours are lovely: 1) Visit an alp where
you can have the BEST VIEW
of the Aletsch Glacier, the longest
glacier in the Alps. A
distant view of the Matterhorn and Mont
Blanc is also possible from here. 2) Visit the Alpine Garden to see the
various alpine flowers and/or the Alp Museum to see how life is on an
alp, a place where farmers take their animals to for the animals'
three-month summer holidays.
If the weather is not suitable for the above, we discover the town of
Brig. |
| Day
7 |
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Visit a
town known throughout Europe for the
largest thermal baths and
spa resort in the Alps.
Next, visit a village where they have
the BEST wooden chalets in Switzerland.
Tonight we stay in a hotel whose rooms are made of larch wood. |
| Day
8 |
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Let's
go and see the largest
UNDERGROUND LAKE in Europe.
After
having done that, we visit the St Bernard dogs that were once used as
avalanche rescue dogs, carrying a barrel of brandy around their neck
for avalanche victims.
If
mother nature permits,
we do an optional tour to have a look at Mont Blanc, the highest
mountain in the Alps.
Next we visit the UNESCO World Heritage vineyards in Lavaux. |
| Day
9 |
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Visit
Geneva, the smallest
metropolis city and home to organizations like the World Health
Organisation, United Nations, Red Cross, UNICEF etc. Collect your free
souvenir. Opportunity to buy Franck Muller watches etc.
Then we drive to the opposite side of the lake and visit the pretty
medival town of Yvoire. |
| Day
10 |
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Watch
Factory. Visit a
watch factory and see one of the best watchmakers in the world at work.
Optional:
Watch Museum.
See the development of Swiss watches through time.
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| Day
11 |
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Let us
take you to Gruyères situated at the foot of the pre-Alps.
You
will be enchanted by the charm and picturesque architecture of this
medieval town which has given its name to the area and to its delicious
cheese. Explore the little town that's been unaffected by the passage
of time, built in a superb setting. Optional: Visit the Castle of
Gruyères or the Giger Museum (if you are a fan of the movie
Aliens which starred Sigourney Weaver.)
Next,
we visit a cheese
factory and a chocolate factory .
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| Day
12 |
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Gstaad
– Today we
take you to where many celebraties have their second homes. They all
prefer it here to St Moritz as it's paparazzi-free.
Bern
– Next, see the Zytgloggeturm or Clock Tower with fascinating
little display of mechanical figures – a crowing cock, a
parade
of bears, Chronos with his hourglass and a dancing jester –
which
is set into motion four minutes before every hour on the clock's east
face. Don't miss Albert Einstein's house. Collect your free souvenir.
Opportunity to buy Swiss watches. See the bears in their pits. (They
hibernate in winter.)
Murten – Finally, see Bern's younger twin. |
| Day
13 |
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We might
be able to do the things that you have missed. If you have not been
able to see the Matterhorn, the Jungfrau group of mountains or any
mountain of the Swiss Alps due to bad weather i.e. cloud blockage, and
if the weather today is super, we would like to fulfill the desires of
your hearts – a mountain visit that will enable you to cover
many
mountains i.e. wonderful view of the above-mentioned mountains, the
Swiss Jura, the French Jura and many more mountains with just 1
mountain visit (optional).
If you'd like to buy the Swiss watch that you have been contemplating,
just let us know, we will drop by Lucerne before we take you to stay in
a Swiss chalet for your last night. |
| Day
14 |
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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) 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.
- 13 nights accommodation in 3- and
4-star hotels
- 13 Swiss buffet breakfasts.
- 5 Swiss dinners.
- 1
driver-guide.
- 1
tour guide.
- 1 touring vehicle.
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