8 Days – 7 Nights Swiss Highlights

Itinerary:

Day 1              Arrive in Geneva          

Today you will arrive in one of the world’s most beautiful city – Geneva. After immigration clearance,Collect your Swiss pass valid for 8 days from Geneva Airport. Make your own way to your Hotel. You will stay overnight at your hotel.

Day 2              Geneva

After breakfast at your hotel, you will make your own way to Geneva Bus Station (Place Dorcière) for your Geneva City Tour (SIC Basis) which will start at 10 AM. Visit the international part of Geneva – pass through the centre of the world’s peacemaking organizations. Then go for a tour of the main tourist attractions of the city like the Fountain and the wonderful Flower Clock. Finally, get a taste of Geneva’s history on the mini-train Tramway Tour and dig even deeper into the Old Town with your guide on a walking tour. The tour will take around 2 hours. Then you are free for the rest of the day. You will stay overnight at your hotel.

Day 3              Geneva – Interlaken

After breakfast at your hotel, Make your way to to Geneva Train Station where you will experience a ride on Swiss Rail with your Swiss Flexi Pass. Enjoy your train journey. On arrival at Interlaken Station make your own way to your hotel in Interlaken. Arrive at your hotel and check in by 14.00hrs. Rest of the day is free at leisure. You will stay overnight at your hotel.

Day 4              Interlaken – Jungfrau – Interlaken

After breakfast at your hotel, proceed to the starting point of your tour at the train station of Interlaken where you will embark on a Full Day Tour of Jungfraujoch (from Interlaken) This unique round-trip by modern cogwheel railway takes you first to Kleine Scheidegg, altitude 2061 metres, at the foot of the notorious Eiger North Wall. From here the Jungfrau Railway climbs to the station at Eigergletscher , well known for its mountain restaurant and polar dog kennels. The trip continues through the Eiger tunnel to the stations at Eigerwand and Eismeer, with a five minute halt at each. Enjoy spectacular sightseeing through large observation windows hewn from solid Alpine rock. And then the arrival on the Jungfraujoch, in the heart of a glorious glacier world on the very roof of Europe! Superb views extend as far as the summits of the Vosges Mountains in France and the Black Forest in Germany. The Great Aletsch Glacier, at 22 km the longest ice-stream in the Alps, begins on the Jungfraujoch-Top of Europe. From here you make your own way back to your hotel where you will stay overnight

Day 5              Interlaken – Lucerne

After breakfast at your hotel, you are free in the morning to enjoy this beautiful paradise on earth. You will later check out of your hotel and make your own way to the train station for your train to Lucerne. On arrival in Lucerne you will check into your hotel by 1400hrs. You are then free to explore Lucerne or shop for the rest of the day. You will stay overnight at your hotel.

Day 6              Lucerne – Mount Titlis – Lucerne    

After breakfast at your hotel, you will proceed for Titlis – experience snow and fun all year round This unique glacier paradise offers snow and ice even in summer! The highest glacier excursion in the Lake Lucerne region is conveniently located, just a short distance from Lucerne. The highlights of the trip has to be riding on the world’s first revolving cable car; a visit to the Titlis Glacier Cave with all its secrets; an «Ice Flyer» chairlift trip over open glacier crevasses; the breathtaking panorama, as well as the unique Titlis Glacier Park, where you can try out various snowtoys for sliding downhill, such as balancers, snow-scoots, snow tubes etc. If you like scenic beauty combined with lots of fun, then a Titlis trip will be just right for you!.Evening Make your own way back to your hotel .where you will stay overnight.

Day 7              Lucerne – Zurich                

After Breakfast at your hotel, you will check out and make your own way to Lucerne Train Station to connect to your train to Zurich. Upon arrival Make your ow way to Hotel in Zurich. At the hotel leave your baggage at the bell desk (as rooms are available after 14.00hrs only) and proceed on your own to Zurich Bus Station where you will take the Best of Zurich City Tour(SIC Basis) at 1300hrs. Discover this unique city, several times winner of the award “City of Best quality of life” in a comfortable air-conditioned bus. See the castle-like National Museum, the shopping and business centre on Bahnhofstrasse, the Limmatquai with its medieval Old Town and view to the Lindenhof, where the brave women of Zurich saved the city from the invaders, the largest church clock-face of Europe on St. Peter, the patriarchal Guild Houses, the Opera house with its famous June-Festivals, the lake (picture stop). Enjoy the great experience travelling uphill on the cog-wheel railway (Dolderbahn) into the “Zürichberg” district with its recently renovated noble five-star Grand Hotel Dolder and many superb mansions of glorious past times. Additional highlights are the University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It’s most famous student and professor was Albert Einstein. Finally there will be a stop in the Old Town at Fraumünster Church, where you will admire the world-famous Chagall-Windows with detailed explanations. After a short introduction to the Old Town the city tour will end here or at the Sihlquai Coach Parking. You will make your own way back to your hotelwhere you will stay overnight.

Day 8              Zurich    

After breakfast at your hotel,  Make your own way to Zurich Airport with your valid swiss flexi pass.