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1. RAIL TOURS

1.1 INDIVIDUAL TOURS TO VIENNA, SALZBURG, INNSBRUCK, MUNICH, BUDAPEST and PRAGUE

Included:

Basic package:

· Meet and assist at the airport on arrival
· Transfer to first hotel by private car or minibus
· Accommodation in a 4 star hotel [number of nights in brackets]
· Daily buffet breakfast
· Half-day regular city tour in each city [except in Innsbruck]
· 2nd class train ticket between the cities

Optional upgrade:

· 1st class rail ticket instead of 2nd class
· All roundtrip transfers between hotels and railway stations
· Departure airport transfer included

>> Extra nights in each city can be booked <<
>> Extra concerts& tours in each city can also be booked <<

Options:
Combi 1: Vienna [2] - Salzburg [2] - Vienna [1] Ref: ENet
Combi 2: Vienna [3] - Prague [2]
Combi 3: Vienna [3] - Budapest [2]
Combi 4: Vienna [2] - Innsbruck [2] - Salzburg [2] - Vienna [1]
Combi 5: Vienna [3] - Salzburg [2] - Munich [2]
Combi 7: Prague [3] - Vienna [3] - Budapest [3]

Contact (012) 460 8382 for rates, or e-mail: info3@duto.co.za

1.2 RAIL TOUR TO AUSTRIAN WORLD HERITAGE SITES
Vienna, Graz, Semmering, Hallstatt, Salzburg, Bad Ischl and Wachau
Ref: TSS

UNESCO declared the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, the old towns of Salzburg and Graz, the region of Hallstatt, and the railway line to the Semmering Pass as world heritage sites to protect and preserve their unique beauty. The following tour offers you enough time to discover and enjoy these sites.

Day 1: Arrival in Vienna
Arrival during the afternoon, evening meal and accommodation for the night.

Day 2: Vienna - Semmering
During a guided tour of the city you gain a marvellous impression of the Austrian federal capital. After travelling along the Ringstrasse, you arrive for a visit to the imperial summer residence of Schönbrunn. Leaving the capital, you travel to Gloggnitz where the Ghega railway awaits you. This first high mountain railway in the world, built by Carl Ritter von Ghega, carries you across viaducts, through tunnels and past a wonderful panorama from Gloggnitz to the Semmering Pass. Accommodation in Semmering.

Day 3: Semmering - Graz
A 2-hour journey brings you to Graz, the "European Cultural Capital 2003". Suggestion: Visit the famous Zeughaus (armoury), well worth seeing with its historic collection of knightly accoutrements and weapons numbering over 30,000 individual items. You can also take a trip into the "Styrian Tuscany" and stop at an inn to enjoy live music, self-baked bread, the famous "Verhackert" (spread of finely chopped bacon in pork dripping) and - above all - the Styrian wine. Overnight stay in Graz.

Day 4: Graz - Hallstatt Dachstein
After a journey through the impressive mountain range of the Styrian Alps you arrive in the Salzkammergut. The Hallstatt Dachstein region was doubly honoured - once for the breathtaking and dramatic nature of its landscape, and once for the romantic town of Hallstatt with its historic houses. The mining of salt - the white gold of the Salzkammergut - has gone on here since the Bronze Age and was the basis for the wealth of the region. Overnight stay in Hallstatt.

Day 5: Hallstatt
This day is devoted to the beauties of nature. Especially well worth seeing are the gigantic cave systems of the Dachstein. In the prehistory and local history museum in Hallstatt you can view the rich collection of finds from the "Hallstattzeit" (Hallstatt era). Accommodation as on previous day.

Day 6: Hallstatt - Bad Ischl - Salzburg
The former imperial town of Bad Ischl, where Emperor Franz Joseph I. spent numerous summers, is only a half-hour drive away. While visiting the Habsburg Imperial Villa and the Lehàr Villa, or during a stroll along the Esplanade, you can still sense the splendor of the times when the nobility came here on holiday. The journey continues along the Wolfgangsee and the Fuschlsee to Salzburg where you can immerse yourself in music in the city of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Using the 24-hour ticket you can use public transport to visit all the attractions of the city. Overnight stay in Salzburg.

Day 7: Salzburg - Wachau
After a 3-hour drive on the penultimate day of your tour you reach the most recent addition to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. The Wachau, a mere 36-kilometre long section of the Danube, is one of the oldest settled areas of our continent and - most important of all - Austria's most famous wine-growing region. During a boat trip along the Danube between Melk and Spitz you can admire the rugged rock formations and the artistically laid out wine terraces, abbeys, monasteries and castles. In the evening you can enjoy a glass or two of something rather special - which is actually the real reason to visit the Wachau. Overnight stay in the Wachau.

Day 8: Journey home.

Package includes:

· 7 nights accommodation in 3- and 4-star hotels and inns
· Half board (3-course-meal) in Vienna, Semmering, Graz, Hallstatt, Wachau and Salzburg
· Rail tickets for the round trip
· Rail ticket only for the Semmering Railway
· Bus ticket Bad Ischl - Salzburg & Hallstatt - Obertraun & back
· Boat trip railway station Hallstatt - village centre Hallstatt (& back) and Melk - Spitz
· Cable railway to the Dachstein caves, cable railway to the Hallstatt Salzberg, entrance to giant cave, entrance to salt mine and entrance to prehistoric and local history museum (Beinhaus)
· 24-hour ticket for Salzburg (free entrance & bus travel)
· Historical round tour of Vienna including guided tour of Schönbrunn
· Information Pack with all the information about the round tour

Reduction for children sleeping in the same room as their parents:
0 to 5 years 100%
6 to 14 years 40%
from 15 years 10%

Please contact (012) 460 8382, or e-mail info3@duto.co.za for newest rates

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