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EUROPEAN CHARM WITH LONDON EXTENSION - 2010

15 days incl. travel, or 14 days from Amsterdam to London (HBT)

Vacation Overview

See some of Europe’s most famous cities and picturesque towns. Begin in Amsterdam with guided sightseeing, a canal cruise, and a visit to a major diamond center. Heading southeast, enter Germany, pausing in magnificent Cologne to visit its twin-spired gothic cathedral. Next, cruise down the Rhine past lush vineyards and castle-dotted river banks to beautiful Heidelberg and medieval Rothenburg. Spend two nights in Bavarian Munich, then off to King Ludwig’s fairytale Neuschwanstein Castle and the Passion Play village of Oberammergau. Travel through the majestic Alps via Innsbruck to Venice, where a guided walking tour includes St. Mark’s Basilica, Doges’ Palace, and the Bridge of Sighs. Stop in Italian-speaking Lugano before arriving in Lucerne to admire its Lion Monument and Chapel Bridge. Spend a night in Montreux, and in Lausanne, board the high-speed TGV train to Paris. Guided sightseeing in the “City of Light” features Notre Dame Cathedral, the Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Élysées, and a bird’s-eye view of the city from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower. Continue by Eurostar train to London, and stay two nights and get a city tour with Local Guide in London that features a visit to St. Paul’s Cathedral and time to watch the Changing of the Guard (if held).

Things to see on your vacation: View Vacation Photo Slideshow
  • Venice is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world
  • Lion Monument
  • Visit Paris’s famed Eiffel Tower
  • Changing of the Guard
  • Big Ben at night in London
  • The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel
  • The Arc de Triomphe standing in the center of the Place Charles de Gaulle
  • Tower of London on a sunny day
  • Mark Twain’s Heidelberg
  A Vacation Story  Oberammergau

"Promises to God are notoriously hard to keep. The townspeople of Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps have not only kept their renaissance promise, they’ve turned it into euros and cents. Flashback to 1633. Oberammergau was a stop on the market road between Augsburg and Venice. When the plague hit, the town elders swore to heaven: Protect us and we’ll do a play about Jesus’ crucifixion every ten years. The first began in 1634. Today the village of Oberammergau lives because of theater. Half of the 5,400 residents break a leg in the Passionsspiel, performed in years ending in zero from May to October."

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