International Festivals Itineraries
Register Online
   
 



  SAMPLE/GENERAL 13 DAY ITINERARY*

  Morning Afternoon Evening
DAY 1

   
  • Depart the USA to Germany on a regularly scheduled transatlantic flight.
  • Dinner served inflight.

DAY 2
  • Breakfast served inflight.
  • Arrive in Frankfurt.

  • Orientation of Frankfurt:
  • Financial Center
  • Medieval Römerplatz
  • Welcome dinner.
  • Overnight in Frankfurt.
DAY 3

  • Breakfast
  • Drive to St. Goar for Rhine Cruise
  • Drive past Bonn, Beethoven’s birthplace
  • Continue to Cologne to see the gothic Cathedral.

  • Possible performance.
  • Dinner
  • Overnight in Cologne.

DAY 4

  • Breakfast
  • Depart for Hamburg via Lower Saxony.

  • Possible performance at one of the smaller towns en route to Hamburg.
  • Dinner
  • Overnight in Hamburg.

DAY 5
  • Breakfast
  • Orientation tour of Hamburg, including Inner Alster Lake.
  • Depart for historic Berlin.

  • Dinner
  • Overnight in Berlin
DAY 6
  • Breakfast

  • Sightseeing tour: Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden Boulevard, German State Opera House, Reichstag Building, Tiergarten
  • Shopping and entertainment district of Kurfürstendamm.
  • Possible performance

  • Dinner
  • Overnight in Berlin.

DAY 7
  • Breakfast
  • Depart for historic city of Dresden – known as “Florence on the Elbe.”
  • Opera House
  • Zwinger Palace

  • Excursion into the Elbe Valley to visit the Bastei Belvedere.
  • Possible performance in Dresden.

  • Dinner
  • Overnight in Dresden.

DAY 8
  • Breakfast
  • Modlareuth: open-air museum
  • Continue to Bayreuth to see the Wagner Festival Theatre

  • Drive to Nuremberg
  • Mighty Ramparts
  • Market Place
  • St. Sebald’s Cathedral

  • Dinner
  • Overnight in Nuremberg.

DAY 9
  • Breakfast
  • Rothenberg: Half-timbered houses, Old Town Hall
  • Performance possible in Rothenberg
  • Dachau Concentration Camp
  • Continue on to Munich

  • Dinner
  • Possible performance
  • Overnight in Munich.

DAY 10
  • Breakfast
  • Tour of Munich: Olympic Stadium, Ludwigstrasse, Marienplatz with its famous Glockenspiel Carillon

  • Excursion to the Nympenburg Palace
  • Possible performance at Nympenburg or one of Munich’s famous churches.

  • Dinner
  • Overnight in Munich.

DAY 11
  • Breakfast
  • Ascent into the Bavarian Alps
  • Famous Passion Play village of Oberammergau
  • Neuschwanstein – mad King Ludwig’s fairytale castle
  • Drive along the shores of Bodensee – Lake Constance
  • Journey through the hills of the Black Forest to Lake Titisee

  • Dinner
  • Overnight in the Black Forest Area

DAY 12
  • Breakfast
  • Scenic drive to Baden-Baden and “Student Prince” city of Heidelberg
  • Possible performance in Heidelberg.
  • Dinner
  • Overnight in Frankfurt
DAY 13
  • Breakfast
  • Return flight to USA
   
 
 

* Dates and order of activities are subject to change