BOHEMIAN HIGHLIGHTS

• Start your Central European adventure in Berlin.
• Meet your Travel Director and fellow travelers, spend time exploring this remarkable city before enjoying a Welcome Reception.

Arrival Transfer: Depart the airport at 10:30, 13:30

• Explore an iconic landmark of Berlin during an experience at the Berlin TV Tower, you’ll enjoy inspiring 360° views of the city and Spree River.
• See the neo-Renaissance Reichstag, the Tiergarten, Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden with a Local Specialist during your included sightseeing tour.
• Enjoy some free time this afternoon exploring the city on your own and watch the sun go down and the lights come up in this vibrant town, or perhaps join an Optional Experience to explore Berlin’s past with your Local Specialist.

Included Experience: Berlin TV Tower Visit and Berlin City Tour

Optional Experience: Berlin’s Secret Past Revealed / Berlin by Twilight with Dinner / Traditional Lake District Dinner

• We travel through patchwork farm landscapes stopping in Poznań, before arriving in the modern Polish capital, Warsaw, where we’ll spend the next two nights.
• Embrace the youthful verve of a city that has triumphed over repeated conquests and the shackles of communism, then spend the evening at leisure exploring the sights, or perhaps join an Optional Experience exploring Warsaw’s past.

Included Experience: Poznan Orientation

Optional Experience: Warsaw Through the Looking Glass

• Join a Local Specialist this morning to explore Warsaw’s colorful historic center, including the Old Town, which the Nazis destroyed in retaliation for the brave Warsaw Uprising.
• We’ll also see the former Warsaw Ghetto, where hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews were imprisoned during the German occupation, tragically immortalized in the poignant Roman Polanski film ‘The Pianist’.
• Spend the rest of the day exploring the city’s sights on your own. Consider a visit to the Wilanów Palace, a priceless testimony to the splendor of Poland’s royal past, or treat yourself to a Chopin recital, before joining your travel companions this evening for a delicious Regional Dinner at a local restaurant.

Included Experience: Warsaw City Tour

Optional Experience: Wilanow Palace / Chopin’s Warsaw

• Today we journey south from Warsaw to the Auschwitz Memorial Site of the former Concentration Camp, a poignant reminder of one of the greatest tragedies and crimes of human history.
• Our visit includes a guided tour of Auschwitz.
• We then continue to the enchanting city of Kraków.

Included Experience: Auschwitz Visit

• A leisurely walk through the beautiful streets of Kraków today with our Local Specialist will include such highlights as the Royal Castle and Cathedral on Wawel Hill, recognized as the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland.
• We continue through the Old Town to hear the bugle warning from St. Mary’s Church and view of the Cloth Hall.
• The rest of the day is yours to explore the sights on your own. Consider joining an Optional Experience to the Wieliczka Salt Mine, renowned as the Underground Salt Cathedral of Poland and home to an entire chapel carved from rock salt, as well as dozens of sculptures.
• Enjoy a slice of Polish Sernik Babci on the Old Town Square or visit a traditional milk bar.
• This evening, perhaps join your fellow travel companions for delicious home-cooked Polish food and a night of dance and music at the Farmhouse Dinner and Polka Party.

Included Experience: Krakow City Tour

Optional Experience: Wieliczka Salt Mine Exploration / Farmhouse Dinner And Polka Party

• Today we travel through three countries from Poland, through Slovakia’s Tatra mountains, and into Hungary as we arrive in beautiful Budapest later this afternoon.
• This evening, perhaps consider a scenic river cruise with dinner along the beautiful Danube.

Optional Experience: Danube Cruise With Dinner

• We join a Local Specialist for a sightseeing tour.
• Spend the rest of the day exploring on your own or consider a trip to Szentendre, a lively riverside town renowned for its art life.
• This evening, we Connect With Locals and join the Schieszl family for dinner and hear the story of their winery at our Be My Guest experience.

Included Experience: Budapest City Tour and Enjoy a Hearty Hungarian Be My Guest dinner with the Schieszl Family

Optional Experience: Szentendre and Light Lunch

• Today, leave beautiful Budapest, cross the hilly Transdanubia region – its orchards and vineyards providing a picturesque backdrop as we continue along the path of the Danube and stop in the former trade-route town of Győr.
• Amble along Baross Gábor Street and admire the Baroque façades, before departing to Vienna, your home for the next two nights.

Included Experience: Györ Orientation and Wine Tasting at the Cobenzl Organic Vineyards

Optional Experience: Viennese Dinner with Musical Entertainment / Guided Visit of the Hungarian Parliament and Danube Shoe Memorial

• Walk through the first district, Inner Stadt, as your Local Specialist reveals the historic core of the city.
• Tour the Ring Road to see the Hofburg Imperial Residence, Opera House, Parliament Building and Karlskirche.
• Spend the rest of the day discovering the city at your own pace. Consider joining an Optional Experience to a palace for traditional Austrian cuisine and a musical performance.

Optional Experience: Schönbrunn Palace and Gardens / Dinner And Viennese Concert

• Travel north to the Czech Republic and visit Tábor, once a Hussite stronghold.
• This afternoon, arrive in the remarkable city of Prague.

Included Experience: Stop in Tábor

Optional Experience: Beautiful Prague by Night

• Join a Local Specialist this morning for an exploration of the city’s labyrinthine lanes and beautiful squares.
• Admire the impressive St. Vitus Cathedral, set within the 1,000-year-old Prague Castle, cross the Vltava to the Old Town Square and view the 14th-century Astronomical Clock, with its magical hourly Walk of the Apostles.
• Spend the rest of the day wandering the streets of the Old Town or take a relaxing lunch cruise on the Vltava.

Included Experience: Prague City Tour

Optional Experience: Scenic Vltava Cruise with Lunch / Traditional Dinner In Prague

• We leave the picture-perfect city of Prague behind and journey west across the German border today, before arriving in cosmopolitan Frankfurt for your final night.
• Spend the last evening of your Bohemian adventure with your travel companions and Travel Director at a Farewell Dinner.

• Our time together has come to an end. We say farewell to our newfound friends at the end of a memorable holiday.

Departure Transfer: Arrive at the airport at 08:00, 10:00