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8 Days / 7 Nights Swiss Gems |
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Highlights
- Discover:
Appenzell, Stein am Rhein, Engadin Villages, Davos or Albula, Ticino Valley, Zermatt, Leukerbad, Interlaken, Gruyere.
- Attractions:
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prettiest small town in Switzerland
- a very traditional Swiss town whose inhabitants are very proud of their traditions
- Bernina Express train ride (optional)
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rodel toboganning on the world's longest toboggan run on rails (optional)
- drives over mountain road passes
- Top of Switzerland to see the highest ice-packed mountains of the Eastern Alps & glacier (optional)
- mountain visit for an impressive 360° panoramic view of Swiss Alp / view of 1000 summits (optional)
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Arrival and pick-up at Zürich airport. Take a drive to Stein am Rhein, also known as the prettiest small town in Switzerland, famous throughout Europe for her medieval frescoes. Next, have lunch at a restaurant that was once an arsenal. Try one of the best chocolate cakes in the world at a well-known café-cum-chocolate boutique. Take a walk in the old town of Zürich with narrow lanes and little specialty shops. A scenic ride passing by the Lake of Zürich, Lake Walen and the pretty Churfirsten mountain range (7 mountains in a row), the Heidi World, THE Pinot Noir Region of Switzerland before arriving at your hotel embedded in an inner alpine valley in the geographic heart of the Alps.
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| Day 2 |
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Visit a resort where one of the events of the Ski Word Cup is held every year in March and where ex-British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher took her twins to learn skiing Here you have various optional tours to choose from: 1) 1-hr horse-carriage ride through the picturesque countryside along lakes and through villages and pine woods.2) Swiss Alps visit for a panoramic view of the Swiss Alps in Graubünden, well-known throughout Switzerland for her beautiful mountains. 3) Rodel tobogganing on the world's longest toboggan run on rails (according to Guinness Book of World Record) at 3.1 km long (available Jun to Oct, Dec to Mar).
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Take a scenic drive over the beautiful Julier Pass to the resort of St Moritz where the 1928 & 1948 Winter Olympics and the 2003 World Ski Championship were held and where the wealthy go to enjoy their riches.
Optional: Visit Top of Switzerland for an impressive close-up view of the highest group of mountains in the eastern Alps the Bernina Massive, the ice-packed mountains and her glaciers that was shown in the movie An Inconvenient Truth' by Al Gore, U.S. president candidate. Next, take a drive through the Swiss National Park to a quaint village situated at the easternmost valley of Switzerland. Explore the village. Stay a night at this village. Enjoy Swiss wellness of hay bath, pumpkin bath or evening primrose bath (optional). |
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Today we drive to the only duty-free oasis in Switzerland. Next, go to the Lower Engadin Valley. Take a walk in quaint villages to see typical Engadiner houses. Optional: Take dips in various indoor and outdoor thermal massage pools.
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| Day 5 |
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Either
1) Visit the highest city in Europe. This is where 2000 of the world's most elite people (politicians, business leaders, celebraties etc) go to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) every winter.
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2) Drive over an alpine pass which cannot be driven over by coaches. Take a hike around a lake which is said to have a second lake beneath it. If weather permits, have a lunch picnic by the lake.
Then take a drive back to your village embedded in the holiday corner of Switzerland and the rest of the day is yours. |
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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 the city or visit the medieval castle(s). Experience the Saturday morning market and feel a different ambiance. Next, visit a beautiful lakeside town situated at the foot of the southern Swiss Alps.
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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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| Day 7 |
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Drive through the countryside area of Appenzell, famous throughout Switzerland for her countryside landscape. Go to the very authentic and traditional town of Appenzell and admire pretty Appenzeller houses. Appenzell is not only known throughout Switzerland for her unique Appenzeller houses but also her high quality cheese, delicious sausages, beer made from mountain spring water, sweets etc.
Optional: Take a drive to Mount Säntis, also know as the Queen of the North-Eastern Swiss Alps for a 360º splendid view of 5 countries Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy and Switzerland. |
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| Day 8 |
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| Hotel check-out. Scenic ride to Zürich airport. |
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Note
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.
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 modification. Do write to us.
What's included:
- Transfer to and fro Zürich airport / hotel in Zürich / Zürich main train station.
- 7 nights accommodation in countryside.
- 7 Swiss breakfasts.
- 7 Swiss dinners.
- 1 driver-guide.
- 1 tour guide.
- 1 touring vehicle.
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