Modern cities, medieval towns and all the sights in between make this Best of Germany and Austria experience one you’ll remember. Beyond the beauty of the Rhine and Wachau, you’ll explore Vienna’s musical treasures and Alpine landscapes.

Shine a spotlight on Prague's colourful medieval streets and good times with a local Hungarian family at their winery. On this exciting eastern Europe trip you’ll get to know all the highlights and hidden gems of eight spellbinding countries.

Buckle up for an unforgettable Great European tour, filled with local flavours, the scents of France and artistry of Gaudí and Michelangelo in Spain and Italy. Discover Florence's rich artistic heritage, admire the 'pearl of the Basque Coast' Biarritz, and count the 100 spires of Prague.

A jam-packed Bohemian trip showcasing the stories of central Europe. Learn about its colourful folklore and the tragedies of war as you visit the heart of Old Town Kraków, slice through the Carpathians and see all the highlights of Prague, Budapest and Vienna.

Munich’s Christmas Market will draw you into the season before Salzburg carries that Christmas feeling into the Alps. Here, Glühwein warms your hands while the scent of roasted nuts, spice and sweet pastries draws you through the market beside snow-capped spires. Your Local Specialist connects the city’s music-filled streets with Mozart’s story before a traditional dining experience at Swarovski Crystal World, where sparkling installations play with light and colour. In Freiburg, medieval cobbles are underfoot as you pass steep-roofed houses and painted shutters. Further west in Strasbourg, France’s oldest Christmas market welcomes you with the sweet scent of cinnamon drifting along streets lined with half-timbered façades.

White sheets of snow lie softly across the Austrian Alps as you travel between palace rooms, market squares and mountain towns wrapped in winter colour. At Vienna's Schonbrunn Palace, you move through white-and-gold Rococo rooms, where mirrors and ceiling frescoes catch the palace light. You follow the scent of gingerbread through Salzburg's 500-year-old Christmas Market, while Munich's six-storey tree rises above the glow of wooden stalls. In snow-dusted Seefeld, you’ll climb aboard a horse-drawn carriage for a ride through the Tyrolean countryside, listening to the gentle clop of hooves as alpine scenery unfolds around you. In Innsbruck, you warm your hands around Gluhwein as Swarovski crystal glints from the market stalls and chatter fills the cool air. The Salzburg Market Tasting experience brings you closer to the people behind the stalls, as you meet a market stallholder over mulled wine and a piece of traditional Lebkuchen. At Neuschwanstein, you follow the castle's ornate rooms and story-book details, tracing the world said to have inspired Walt Disney.

You'll move from Munich’s beer taverns, where the malty scent of cold German beer fills the air and servers weave between long wooden tables, to Neuschwanstein Castle, whose Alpine turrets inspired Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle. Beside Lake Lucerne, a funicular starts the climb to Stanserhorn, where you'll dine nearly 6,000 feet above sea level as the Rondorama restaurant turns slowly and mountains, lake and sky pass your table. On the Glacier Express, you watch ice-capped peaks, deep valleys and frozen waterfalls slip beyond the window, with the steady hum of the train beneath you.

Across nine days, you wander from marble halls and coffee-scented streets to market squares, river bends, castle courtyards and candlelit tables. In Prague, choose between the cool ancient stone of its thousand-year-old castle precincts and the Jewish Quarter’s synagogues and narrow lanes with a Local Specialist. Across Slovakia and the Tatra Mountains, verdant forests and high mountain peaks pass the window before Budapest waits beside the Danube sparkling in the sun. In Buda’s Old Town, you gaze across to Pest from Fisherman’s Bastion, then end at dinner with Hungarian wines and warm, rich dishes under a candlelit glow.

At Schönbrunn Palace, your Local Specialist leads you through white-and-gold Rococo rooms, carved chandeliers and intricate parquet once used for the ceremonies of the Habsburg court. In Ljubljana, you’ll wander through the Central Market, where fruit and vegetables sit beside fresh bread, and the scent of sweet baked goods drifts between the stalls. At Plitviče, emerald-green and dark-blue lakes lie among dense forest, with water cascading over moss-covered tufa into the rippling pools below. In Sarajevo, you’ll enter the Tunnel of Hope, a passage about a metre wide and 1.6 metres high, dug beneath the airport during the siege, where narrow rails once carried people and vital supplies.

Across Eastern Europe, you’ll travel with Local Specialists from the wide waters of the Danube to the banks of the Vistula, then beneath Berlin’s linden trees. You’ll cross the deep green of the Tiergarten towards the Reichstag’s glass dome and Brandenburg Gate, before following Unter den Linden past the State Opera House to Museum Island on the Spree. In Vienna, you linger over traditional Austrian dishes as Mozart’s melodies pass between the strings, rising and softening through the room while each course arrives to the rise and fall of the music.