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11 DAYS/10 NIGHTS | GROUP TRAVEL SUGGESTED ITINERARY | CAN BE CUSTOMIZED

INCLUSIONS This 11-day tour was designed to take your group from the banks of the , past the , through historic Bohemian , to a fairytale city found along the River  Accommodations: Vienna 4 nights, Prague 3 nights, Vltava and lastly to the northern frontiers of the scenic . We guarantee that you cannot Salzburg 3 nights find scenery much better than this! If remarkable royal castles, pretty towns, top-  Meals: Continental notch classical music venues, and out-of-this- landscapes are on your travel bucket list, breakfast daily. Lunch this is the itinerary for you! and dinner as noted in itinerary  Air-conditioned, private DAY 2 • DAY TOUR OF DAY 1 • ARRIVAL TO coaching OLD VIENNA  English-speaking Welcome to Austria! Upon After breakfast in the , assistants and guides  Admission tickets and arrival an assistant will meet a local guide will meet your sightseeing excursions as your group in the terminal’s arrivals group and take it on a full-day guided outlined in the itinerary and accompany it by private coach to the sightseeing tour of Vienna’s hotel in Vienna. As this is the arrival day, (1st ), which contains its . HIGHLIGHTS have not scheduled any activities until This entire has been classified as an dinnertime. Please note that if your group official UNESCO World Heritage Site. Being  Tour Schönbrunn, the arrives before the hotel’s official check-in a political and cultural for the House Habsburg’s and a UNESCO time (generally 3:00 pm) you are than of Habsburg, Vienna served as a capital of World Heritage Site welcome to store baggage with the the Holy Roman , the reception staff so that you can set out and Empire, and later the Austro-Hungarian  Valley day trip begin to explore Austria’s elegant, riverside Empire. The ’s patronage long featuring Abbey and a Danube River Cruise capital. encouraged art, music and science, and as a result, the city of Vienna today is truly a  Free day in Prague The ancient city of Vienna was home treasure-trove of cultural attractions. to some of ’s most powerful rulers,  Walking tours in the Today’s tour will take place inside of and their patronage is still evident today in historic Bohemian towns Vienna’s famed Ring. Your guide will show this cultural mecca’s grand boulevards, of Třeboň and Český your group Stephansplatz, which is home to Krumlov superb , splendid , and Vienna’s iconic St. Stephen’s Cathedral. unrivaled classical musical scene. This  Inside visits to You’ll stroll down Kärntnerstrasse, Vienna’s afternoon consider paying a visit to one of Palace, Prague Castle, most-famous shopping avenue and see the Vienna’s impressive museums, or as and Křivoklát Castle! nearby House. Austria’s capital is world-famous for its  The Sound of Music tour coffee houses, why not pop into one for a Most of your time today will be spent in Salzburg touring the imperial Hofburg Palace, which café and a Viennese pastry (or two)?  Day trip to the Bavarian was the winter residence of the Habsburg This evening your group will dine in the Alps in kings and emperors. Today it is the official hotel’s restaurant. residence of the President of Austria.

This enormous palace complex plays host to , and the private apartments many residences, offices and museums of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Sisi, including the , the your group will return to the hotel in National Library, the , the Vienna. There is nothing scheduled this Natural History , the Museum of evening. However, as Vienna has such a Fine Arts, and the Imperial Chapel, where the wonderful classical music scene, your group famed Vienna Boys Choir performs on might consider attending a performance at Sunday mornings from September to . the symphony or opera. Your group will specifically go inside the DAY 4 • WACHAU Imperial State Apartments VALLEY EXCURSION (Kaiserappartements) to see what home was like for the Habsburg emperors and their After breakfast in the hotel, families. You will then continue to the today your group will set Imperial Treasury (Schatzkammer), which is out on an exciting sightseeing excursion to arguably the world’s greatest treasury. the Wachau Valley. This extremely picturesque area, which is found along the The tour will finish up back at the hotel, and Danube River, is another UNESCO World the remainder of the day is at leisure. For Heritage Site. Today’s excursion will take information on Vienna’s nightlife and you through the Vienna Woods to a excellent restaurant scene, please feel free fairytale of vineyards, castles, sleepy to ask your guide. villages and historic abbeys. DAY 3 • SIGHTSEEING IN As part of today’s tour, your group will VIENNA leisurely cruise the Danube from the pretty After breakfast in the hotel, wine town of Spitz to the ancient town of your group will dive straight Melk, which is home to the famed back into the world of Habsburg splendor. Benedictine . This baroque Today’s first visit will be to the masterpiece, which dates back to the 11th , which is Vienna’s century, is a true symbol of Austria and one Museum of Fine Arts. Many of the museum’s of the most-important monastic sites in the collections were amassed by the Habsburg world. Your guide will lead your group on rulers from their extensive territories. Quite an interesting tour of the abbey before simply, this is one of the finest art museums returning to Vienna in the late-afternoon. in the world! (Please note that the Danube river cruises generally only operate from April to Afterwards your group will board its private . In the event that your group is coach and travel southwest to Schönbrunn, vacationing in Austria outside of this time the Habsburg’s magnificent baroque period, this area is still worth a visit! palace. This UNESCO World Heritage Site, Instead of the river cruise, we could which has well over 1,000 rooms, is the arrange for your group to have a special location where a six-year-old Mozart wowed lunch of regional specialties in Melk). the Empress Maria Theresa (mother of Marie Antoinette) with his extraordinary musical After returning to the hotel in Vienna, talent in the late . enjoy some time to relax and before tonight’s group dinner in Grinzing, After touring the palace’s state rooms, 18th- an area located on the outskirts of the century rooms associated with the Empress Vienna Woods. Grinzing is best characterized by its “heurigen” or centuries; until the end of I. traditional wine taverns. Today, many of Prague’s magnificent

Enjoy a memorable last evening in Vienna cultural and architectural offerings date before returning to the hotel (roundtrip from their reigns. The city’s heritage is so transportation to Grinzing is included). rich that its entire historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. DAY 5 • VIENNA – TŘEBOŇ - PRAGUE DAY 6 • PRAGUE CASTLES TOUR After breakfast and check- out, your group will bid After breakfast in the hotel, farewell to Vienna, north by private your group will set out by coach, and cross into the . private coach on a full-day royal castles While your destination is Prague, en-route sightseeing tour featuring Křivoklát Castle your group will stop and visit the Bohemian and Prague Castle. back to the 12th town of Třeboň. This historic, walled city is century, Křivoklát Castle was the home of home to some very pretty baroque and Bohemian kings and princes for centuries renaissance . While in Třeboň, (as well as political prisoners during the your group will have free time for lunch, ). The castle’s interiors are followed by a guided walking tour before re absolutely stunning; its library and royal -boarding the coach and traveling north to chapel in particular. After touring the castle Prague. and free time for lunch, your castle sightseeing tour will continue with a visit to Upon arrival to the hotel in Prague, check the Prague Castle complex, which is in and take some time to freshen up before composed of many structures including tonight’s group dinner in the hotel’s towers, houses and churches. One can restaurant. Tomorrow you will begin your easily spend an entire day there and still sightseeing in the Czech Republic’s historic not see everything. During your tour this capital! afternoon your group will tour St. Much of the fairytale-like beauty found in Cathedral, St. George's Basilica, the Old Prague can be credited to its 14th-century Royal Palace, Golden Lane and Daliborka ruler: Charles IV. As both the King of Tower, all of which form part of a UNESCO and the Holy , his World Heritage Site. patronage ushered in an era of art, culture, The sightseeing tour will finish up back at architecture, and scholarship in Bohemia; a your hotel, and the evening is at leisure for true Golden Age. During his reign, Prague you to enjoy Prague. became the imperial capital of the . A second Golden Age in DAY 7 • PRAGUE FREE Prague took place in the late 16th century DAY during the reign of Emperor Rudolf II, who After breakfast in the hotel, despite being a Habsburg chose to rule enjoy a full day at leisure to from Prague instead of Vienna. His visit Prague on your own. As most of fostering of both science and art allowed yesterday’s sightseeing in Prague took Prague to blossom even further. After his place up in Hradčany, the Castle District, reign, the Austrian Habsburgs continued to today we recommend you explore Prague’s rule over Prague for the three medieval Old Town, which in Czech is known as “Staré Město.” There you will centuries by the Habsburgs. After gaining find a multitude of interesting sights, some independence from the Bavarian (German) of which like the 13th-century Old New Wittelsbach dynasty in the late 14th Synagogue are located in Josefov, Prague’s century, Salzburg was actually an Jewish Quarter. Another must see is independent state in the Holy Roman Prague’s magnificent Old Town Square, Empire (and run by Archbishops) which is home to the city’s 15th-century until it officially became part of Austria in Astronomical Clock. For postcard-like views the beginning of the 19th century. of the Vltava River, we suggest you stroll While Salzburg was heavily bombed in across the city’s iconic Charles Bridge. World War II, much of the fantastic Lastly, if you’re a fan of the Czech Art found in its Old Town Nouveau artist, Alphonse Mucha, you must was not destroyed. As a result, Salzburg’s pay a visit to the Mucha Museum, which is Old Town is quite a rare example of an housed inside the baroque Kaunický Palace. authentic, Austrian alpine city. Its entire This evening your group will dine in a local historic area is an official UNESCO World restaurant on its last evening in Prague. Heritage Site. In addition to its architecture, Salzburg today is known for scenic DAY 8 • PRAGUE - surroundings (many of which were ČESKÝ KRUMLOV - featured in The Sound of Music) and SALZBURG wonderful music festivals, many of which After breakfast and check- pay homage to Salzburg’s most famous out, your group will travel south by private son: . coach to visit one of the Czech Republic’s DAY 9 • SALZBURG AND most popular tourist attractions: the pretty THE SOUND OF MUSIC Bohemian town of Český Krumlov. The town’s historic center, which comprises the After breakfast in the hotel famed Český Krumlov Castle, is an official your group will head off on UNESCO World Heritage Site. Upon arrival an exciting, guided tour of scenic Salzburg to Český Krumlov, your group will enjoy a (combination coach & walking). As you walking tour of its beautiful Old Town, explore the historic center of Mozart’s followed by free time to buy lunch before hometown, your guide will point out the proceeding southwest to Salzburg. sights related to The Sound of Music film. Admire the exquisite Mirabell Gardens, Upon arrival to the hotel in Salzburg, check where the song “Do-Re-Mi” was filmed, the in and take some time to freshen up before famous Horse Trough, the great Festival tonight’s group dinner in the hotel’s hall, St. Peters Churchyard and the restaurant, which will feature regional monumental Domplatz. You will also visit specialties and Austrian wines. Tomorrow the birthplace of Mozart on the historic you will begin your sightseeing in the Getreidegasse Street. After free time for musical, mountainous city of Salzburg! lunch, travel to the shores of Lake Located at the northern edge of the Alps to see the famous church where the along the banks of the River, wedding of Maria and Captain Trapp Salzburg’s incredible alpine vistas will make was filmed. The tour will finish back at the you feel a world away from the imperial hotel in the afternoon, and you have the city of Vienna. This is one of the only parts evening at leisure to enjoy Salzburg. of Austria that was not ruled for many DAY 10 • BAVARIAN DAY 11 • DEPARTURE ALPS TOUR FROM SALZBURG

After breakfast in the hotel, After breakfast and check- your group will travel south, out your group will travel crossing the border with Germany into the by private coach to for its heart of the . As part of your return flight to the USA or . (Note: if sightseeing tour, your group will travel to flight itineraries or rates are better from the mountain retreat of Obersalzburg, a , your group could easily add a night particularly beautiful area that was often in Munich and use Munich Airport instead frequented by and senior of Salzburg Airport). members of the . While there WHY TRAVEL WITH US ? your group will stop to appreciate the Why Should You spectacular views from the Kehlsteinhaus We Make It Easy - We provide a quick Book Your Vacation (“Eagle’s Nest”), which was a teahouse turnaround on custom quotes. Multi-city th with Go-today? originally constructed for Hitler’s 50 and multi-country itineraries are our birthday. You will then descend back down specialty. In addition, we can help organize to the truly lovely alpine town of signup deadlines, travel documents and Ease of Use , where you will have time payments. for lunch. From there it’s on to the famed Berchtesgaden salt mines, where you will Experience Experience - Go-today has managed over have the opportunity to learn all about 6,000 custom group trips since 1990. We working underground! Flexibility provide expert guides and high quality This area (and Salzburg in particular) has travel products. Peace of Mind always been deeply impacted by the presence of salt mines. As we know, salt Flexibility - We work with you to create a was historically always an extremely tailor-made trip to accommodate your Destination Expertise valuable commodity. In fact, the modern interests, booking whatever combination of word “salary” originates from when Roman travel services fit your plans and budget, soldiers used to receive their pay or including airfare, , rail, transfers, “salarium” in salt. Much of the Salzburg’s sightseeing and more. Prince-Archbishops’ wealth came from the salt mines, and the name Salzburg actually Peace of Mind - Dedicated local ground translates to “salt castle.” Before returning support means that there is always to the hotel in Salzburg, your group will someone available to help you. Relax also venture inside Berchtesgaden National knowing that your trip is backed by our Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, to see commitment to offer world-class quality of the park’s magnificent Königssee (Kings service. Lake).

Your last evening in Salzburg is at leisure.

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