Full Itinerary and Tour details for Garmisch to Meran 8-day Self-guided Walking Tour Level 3 Prices starting from. Trip Duration. Max Passengers. 689 € 8 days 10 Start and Finish. Activity Level. Garmisch to Meran 3 Experience. Tour Code. Walking Tours Europe #B1/2656 Garmisch to Meran 8-day Self-guided Walking Tour Level 3 Tour Details and Description Alpine Crossing‚ light‘ - Discover the diversity of the three Alpine countries Bavaria, Tyrol and South Tyrol! Quaint alps and remote mountain huts, roaring ravines and impressive high mountain valleys await to be discovered along historic routes. Again and again traditional Bavarian beer gardens, Tyrolean specialities and South Tyrolean delicacies invite to a comfortable break. Amidst the highest mountains of the Alps you eventually reach Meran where your most diverse impressions of your hiking holiday across the Alpine region merge in its unique entirety. A marvellous tour to get to know the most beautiful facets of the Alps! Tour character: Level 3 Mountain Hiking: Good stamina and a good basic fitness level are required for the daily hiking tours of up to a maximum of 5 hours walking time. Daily routes run along well-maintained and most of all diverse mountain paths, where in parts surefootedness is required. Sometimes routes can be cut short by public transport Included in the Garmisch to Meran Walking Tour: • 7 overnight stays in 3* hotels and inns, breakfast included (half board available 159 eur) Luggage transfer Welcome briefing (German, English) Train journey Telfs - Landeck Bus ride Landeck - Nauders Cable car ascent Mutzkopf Train journey Schluderns - Naturns Carefully elaborated route description Detailed travel and tour documents 1x per room (German, English) GPS-data is available Service hotline Arrival / Parking / Departure: Check Availability Book Online Now Send an Enquiry 2/5 Garmisch to Meran 8-day Self-guided Walking Tour Level 3 • Arrival by train at Garmisch-Partenkirchen and a short walk or a short bus ride to the first hotel. Parking limited number of hotel parking spaces Day 1 free of charge, no reservation possible. Plenty of parking options free of charge near the Arrival in Garmisch The famous olympic town hotel Garmisch-Partenkirchen beckons you to explore: Return journey from Meran to Garmisch by train in discover the beautiful pedestrian zone, the approx. 4.5 hours (2x change of trains). traditionally painted houses and cozy beer gardens. Shuttle service from Meran to Garmisch, info and booking at www.viaclaudia.org. Day 2 Notes: Garmisch – Mittenwald | approx. 5 hours | 18 km | +700 m -450m Walk past the renowned ski-jumping • Tourist tax, if due, is not included in the price hill and through the imposing Partnachklamm-ravine, • Bus journey Reschen–St. Valentin, approx: EUR 3 where a roaring mass of water has dug deep into the per person rock. Via Mount Wamberg you walk to the Elmauer • Departure Saturdays. Other days on request Alp and continue through blooming meadows and valleys to Lake Lauter- and Lake Ferchensee. You stay overnight in Mittenwald, renowned for violin making and ‚Lüftlmalerei■ (a kind of trompe l■oeil on houses). Day 3 Mittenwald – Leutasch | approx. 4 hours | 15 km | +250 m -50 m Today you leave Bavaria and head for the Tyrolean mountain world! The Geisterklamm-ravine situated high above a gorge awaits for you to walk through it on bridges and footbridges. After that you hike through a splendid high mountain valley, which is also the location of the popular holiday destination Leutasch, surrounded by mountain chains. Day 4 . Leutasch – Landeck | approx. 4.5 hours | 15 km | +200 m -650 m Remote hill moor areas and forests lead you to the crossover onto the ‚Buchner Höhe■. Past walls of rock of the ‚Hohen Munde■ along a Itinerary beautiful hiking trail downhill into the green Inn-river valley. From the historic market town Telfs you take Check Availability Book Online Now Send an Enquiry 3/5 Garmisch to Meran 8-day Self-guided Walking Tour Level 3 the train, which takes you to your Day Finish Landeck with views onto the famous mountains with glaciers of Departure or extension of your stay. Ask us about the Ötztaler and Pitztaler Alps. extra nights Day 5 . Landeck – Reschen } | approx. 14 km | +550m -800 m. Transfer onto the Reschen-pass and by cable car to Mutzkopf, where you start your hike to Lake Schwarzsee and Lake Grünsee. You ascend as far as the three-nation border stone, where you get to stand exactly on the border between Italy, Austria and Switzerland. You descend via alps to the giant Lake Reschensee. Day 6 Reschen – Naturns | approx. 4.5 hours | 17 km | +150 m -650 m Short bus journey along Lake Reschensee with a view onto the sunken church of Graun to the trailhead. The hiking tour in the nature reserve on Lake Haidersee leads you downhill into the Alpine dairy village of Burgeis and then via diverse paths across meadows and ‚Waalweg■-paths (ancient water channels) to Schluderns and by train through vineyards and orchards to Naturns. Day 7 Naturns – Meran | approx. 5 hours | 20 km | +350m -550m You walk along a panorama-trail with great views all the way to the streams of the ‚Sagenweg■-path. Along the many Waalweg-paths traditional wine taverns invite you again and again to have a break. In the afternoon you reach the ‚Tappeiner Promenade■, whose exotic floral splendor you follow as far as the cathedral square of Meran. Now you have reached the end destination of your impressive hiking week and get to toast to your experiences in the pretty centre of Meran Day 8 Check Availability Book Online Now Send an Enquiry 4/5 WHY SLOW TOURS EUROPE? 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