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Heidelberg and Rothenburg

Depart:
Independent Tour-Land Only

3 Days/ 2 Nights

Daily from April 10-October 13
Price per Person:

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Package Includes:

2 nights at tourist class hotels with private facilities
Breakfast daily
Transportation by air conditioned motor coach
Taxi transfers: Bus stop-hotel and hotel-bus stop in Rothenburg
Sightseeing and entrance fees as per itinerary
Hotel taxes and service charges

Itinerary

Day 1 Frankfurt-Heidelberg-Frankfurt
After breakfast you will enjoy a tour to Heidelberg, the old university town located on the banks of the River Neckar. Your city walk includes a visit to the inner courtyard of the Heidelberg Castle. Lunchbox is included. Overnight Hotel Intercity in Frankfurt or similar.

Day 2 Frankfurt-Rothenburg
This morning depart Frankfurt for a drive through the Spessart Mountains to Wurzburg, on the banks of the Main River. Continue on the Romantic Road to Rothenburg o.d. Tauber, Germany’s well preserved “Jewel of the Middle Ages” with its ramparts, city gates, town hall, and Jakobskirche (church) with an alter by the famous wood-carver Tilmann Riemenschneider. Upon arrival in Rothenburg, a taxi will take you to your hotel. In the afternoon or evening you will enjoy a city walk with a local guide or historic Night Watchman in Rothenburg. Overnight Hotel Spitzweg or Hotel Goldene Rose or similar.

Day 3 Rothenburg-Munich
After breakfast a taxi will take you to the bus stop. Your coach drives along the Romantic Road passing such picturesque towns as Dinkelsbuhl, Nordlingen and Donauworth, with their high-gabled houses and cobbled streets. Via Augsburg, a metropolis during the Roman times and famous for old trade dynasties during the middle ages, you reach Munich at around 6pm. You may add nights in Munich if needed.

Pre and post tour nights available in Frankfurt and/or Munich available.

This tour may be taken in reverse and ends in Frankfurt at 3.30pm.




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