THE BEST OF AUSTRIA & SWITZERLAND WITH OBERAMMERGAU - 2010

16 days incl. travel, or 15 days from Vienna to Munich (ZCO)

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Vacation Overview

This journey covers all the highlights of two of Europe’s most beautiful countries. Enjoy 2-night stays in Salzburg, Zermatt, and Lucerne, and a 3-night stay in romantic Vienna. A more relaxed pace provides enough free time to really enjoy the scenic vistas and special included features, like a Danube River cruise, the Sound of Music’s lake country, Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg, Zermatt’s Mountain train, Chillon Castle at Lake Geneva, Berne, Interlaken, a ride on the Glacier Express from Chur to Zermatt, and time in ritzy St. Moritz. Extend your tour with the Oberammergau Passion Play (after Lucerne continue for one night to Innsbruck in Austria, next for one night to Oberammergau with the Passion Play included. Then to Munich for the last overnight.

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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."