SWITZERLAND

• Airport transfers if World One issues the tickets.

• Services of a professional tour director on motorcoach tour.

• Hotels listed below or equivalent. Twin-bedded rooms with private bath or shower, hotel taxes,

  service charges, and tips for baggage handling.

• Welcome drink; 7 buffet breakfasts (BB); 5 three-course dinners (D).

• Mountain train Tasch-Zermatt

• Sightseeing with local guides: Chillon Castle, Berne, a cheese factory

• Visits to Zurich, Liechtenstein, St. Moritz, Lugano, Zermatt, Lucerne

• Scenic highlights: Juliet Pass, Engadine Valley, Swiss-Italian Lake District, Simplon Pass, Lake Geneva, 

   Emmental Valley

• Inside visits as shown in UPPERCASE in the tour description, including admission charges where applicable.

• Travel bag and travel documents

Day 2 ARRIVAL IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND. Time to rest or to discover Zurich's attractive historic center

and lakeside promenade. At 6 p.m. meet your traveling companions for a welcome drink hosted by your tour

 director.

Day 3 ZURICH-LIECHTENSTEINST - MORITZ. First an orientation drive through Zurich, Switzerland's center

of banking and commerce. Then cast along Lake Zurich and Lake Walen to the tiny principality of Liechtenstein. 

After a break in Vaduz ascend the Rhine Valley into the mountainous Grisons, a canton where three of the country's

four languages are spoken. The 7,504-foot Julier Pass, an important Alpine road since Roman times, leads to the 

Engadine. This valley is considered by many as the most beautiful mountain area in the world: deep-blue lakes, 

airy larch forests that turn golden in the fall, mountain peaks exceeding 12,000 feet, quaint villages with massive 

white stone houses in the characteristic Grisons style. Afternoon at leisure in ritzy St. Moritz. (BB,D)

Day 4 ST MORITZ-LUGANO. A gradual change of scenery as you descend towards the enchanting shores of the 

Italian Lake Como and continue on to the southern tip of Switzerland. The vegetation south of the Alps is 

Mediterranean: chestnut groves, vineyards, olive and fig trees make you forget that earlier today you were within 

walking distance of the glaciers. Lunchtime arrival in the popular subtropical resort town of Lugano leaves the 

afternoon free for shopping under the arcades of Via Nassa, an espresso on flower-festooned Piazza Riforma, and 

a walk in the shade of Parco Ciani's magnificent old trees. (BB,D)

Day 5 LUGANO-ZERMATT. From Lake Lugano to the Italian shore of Lake Maggiore for a break in elegant Stresa. 

Weather permitting, an optional boat ride to the enchanting Isola Bella will be arranged. On over the lofty 

Simplon Pass into the Swiss Valais, an area renowned for its excellent wines and great mountain resorts. To 

reach the most famous of them leave the coach behind in Tasch and board a mountain train climbing the last 

Day 7 LAKE GENEVA-LUCERNE. Travel along an excellent highway through some of the country's best farmlands 

to its stately capital, Berne. Sightseeing with a local expert starts at the popular BEAR PIT and then focuses on the 

monumental Federal Palace and the beautifully preserved medieval Old Town. Witness the hourly parade of painted 

figures at the Clock Tower and take your Pictures of ornate, flower-adorned fountains. After lunch continue east 

through the verdant dairy country of Emmental. On the way visit a CHEESE FACTORY to learn how one of 

Switzerland's prime exports is made. Tonight you are in picture-book Lucerne. (BB,D)

Day 8 LUCERNE. Medieval heritage every step of the way. See the impressive city walls, the famous covered 

WOODEN BRIDGE, ornate patrician houses lining cobbled streets, and Thorwaldsen's masterful LION MONUMENT. 

Afterwards shop for watches and choose from our optional activities: climb a mountain by cable car; take a cruise 

on the fjord-like lake; sign up for a folklore party with yodeling and alphorn blowing for a first-hand impression of 

alpine merrymaking and a fitting goodbye to Switzerland. (BB)

Day 9 LUCERNE-ZURICH. HOMEBOUND FLIGHT. Morning transfer to Zurich Airport in time for homebound 

flights leaving no earlier than 10 a.m. For land-only tour members, extra nights are available in Zurich, not 

Lucerne. (BB)