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Travel plans, routes and timetables / Re: Need Help with Europe Itinerary Aug-Nov 2012 ... Train Route
« on: March 10, 2012, 03:13:45 am »
1) Hey tUt thanks so much for your help! I have included a rough itinerary with a starting date of August 3rd where I arrive by the Trans Siberian in Moscow for tour. The finishing destination will be London UK sometime in November.
2) Would it make most since (it gets a a bit crazy around Prauge to Croatia routing wise I am not sure if it makes the most since, also don't know whatever to use train or plane for some connections):
arrive Moscow > fly to Saint Petersburg > fly to Oslo > train/regional train or fly? to Copenhagen > train to Colgne > train to Berlin > train to Warsaw > train to Prauge > train/regional train or fly? Budapest > train/regional train or fly? Vienna > train Salzburg > train Rust Germany > Swiss Pass rail Lausanne > Swiss Pass rail Lucere > Fly Munich > train/regional train or fly? Plitvice National Park Coratia > Bus Tour Eastern Europe Countries -- Istanbul > train/regional train or fly? Athens > fly Egypt > Fly Rome > train Pisa > train Cinque Terre > train Venice > train/regional train or fly? Seville/ Andulacea > train/regional train or fly? Barcelona > train/regional train or fly? Loire Valley > train Paris > train/regional train or fly? London
3) Should I get a Eurail 15 Day Select Pass for Amsterdam, Germany, Warsaw, Prauge, Vienna, Croatia, Italy, Spain, France ?
[START: August 3rd 2012]
Moscow, Russia (3 days | Arrival Date: 08/03/2012 - Departure Date: 08/06/2012)
- City Tour
- Kremlin
- Red Square
- Lenin's Mausoleum
- Garden of Fallen Monuments
- Tagansky Protected Command Point
- Saint Basil's Cathedral
- Krasnaya ploshchad
- Day Trip: Kuskovo Estate & Palace Museum
- Day Trip: Ostankino Palace
- Museum of Soviet Arcade Games (Optional)
- Victory Park (optional)
- Gorky Park (optional)
- the Nikulin circus on Tsvetnoi Bulvar (metro Tsvetnoi Bulvar), and the new circus near the University (optional)
- Japanese garden in Botanichesky Sad (optional)
- Patriarshi ponds area (optional)
- Kolomenskoye (optional)
- Bunker-42 (optional)
Saint Petersburg, Russia (3 days | Arrival Date: 08/06/2012 - Departure Date: 08/09/2012)
- City Tour
- Saint Isaac's Cathedral
- Church of the Savior Blood
- The Hermitage
- Peter and Paul's Fortress
- Summer Palace Peter the Great
- Day Trip: Peterhof Palace
- Day Trip: Winter Palace Russia
- Field of Mars (optional)
- Battleship Aurora (optional)
- Smolny Cathedral (optional)
- Norwegian air to Oslo Flight
Oslo, Norway (8 days | Arrival Date: 08/09/2012 - Departure Date: 08/16/2012)
- Visit Borther
- City Tour
- Breheimsenteret
- Fjord Safari en Flam
- Fjord Tours, Bergen, norway
- Flåm, Norway
- Jostedal glacier
- sognefjord
- solvorn
- Geiranger Fjord Cruise, waterfalls and age-old mountains.
- Mo I Rana Svartisen Glacier, hike to Norway's second largest glacier
- Seige of Leningrad memorial
- Visit Frogner Park and the Vigeland sculptures
- Fløibanen
- Nærøyfjorden
- Glacier hikes on the Nigardsbreen Glacier, Jostedal / Luster
- The Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset)
- Eu-Trans Norway (museum of transportation)
- Jotunheimen National Park
- Day Trip: TusenFryd Amusement Park, Vinterbro, Norway (optional)
Copenhagen, Denmark (3 days | Arrival Date: 08/16/2012 - Departure Date: 08/19/2012)
- City Tour by local guide Jan
- Canal Tour
- Trivolli Amusement Park (Full Day)
- The Botanical Gardens Copenhagen
- The Museum of National History
- Christianborg Palace (optional)
- Amalienborg Palace (optional)
- the Resistance Museum (optional)
- Day Trip: Fredensborg Palace, Denmark
Amsterdam, Netherlands (4 days | Arrival Date: 08/19 [or] 8/20/2012 - Departure Date: 08/25/2012)
- City Tour
- Day Trip: Rotterdam, visit friends
- Boat Tour
- Joy Ride Tours
- Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments
- bike the Dutch countryside & city
- the Resistance Museum
- the Royal Palace
- Sex museum (optional)
- Anne Frank House ambsterdam
- Erotic Museum (optional)
- Red Light District
- Hortus Botanicus (Botanical Garden) Amsterdam
- Day Trip: Keukenhof Gardens, tulips,etc... Lisse, Netherlands (optional)
- Day Trip: Efteling Amusement Park, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (optional)
Cologne, Germany (4 days | Arrival Date: 08/ /2012 - Departure Date: 08/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Cathedral
- Day Trip: Phantasialand Amusement Park (Brühl, Germany)
- Day Trip: Burg Eltz Castle, Münstermaifeld, Germany
- Day Trip: Heidelberg Castle, Heidelberg, Germany
Berlin, Germany (4 days | Arrival Date: 08/ /2012 - Departure Date: 08/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Boat Tour
- Gay museum
- Brandenburg Gate
- Reichstag (Parliament)
- Checkpiont Charlie
- Berlin Wall
- Potsdamer Platz Arkaden
- East-Side-Gallery
- Prater Garden
- Berlin holocaust museum (optional)
- The Jewish Museum (optional)
- Woerlitzer Landscape Park berlin (Erholungspark Marzahn)
- Day Trip: Schloss Charlottenburg berlin UBan west, Charlottenburg, Altes Schloss (Optional)
- Day Trip: Potsdam, using subway, castles: Neues Palace, see Sony Center
Warsaw, Poland (1 day | Arrival Date: 08/ /2012 - Departure Date: 08/ /2012)
- Auschwitz & Krakow Salt Mine (Wieliczka Salt Mine)
Prauge, Czech Republic (3 days | Arrival Date: 08/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Charles bridge
- Prauge Castle
- Petrin Hill
- Prauge Gardens
- Nebozizek
- Žižkov Television Tower
- Prauge Museums
- Wallenstein Palace Gardens prauge
- Day Trip: Schloss Pillnitz, Castle, Dresden, Germany
- Day Trip: Residenzschloss, Castle, Dresden, Germany
- Day Trip: Bojnice Castle, Bojnice, Slovakia (Zamok Bijnice)
Budapest, Hungary (3 days | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012) -- Optional?
- City Tour
- Royal Palace
- Matthias Church
- Memento Park
- Heroes' Square
- Budavári palota
- Széchenyi Gyógyfürdo
- Széchenyi Lánchíd
- Great Market Hall
- Rudas Baths (optional -- best one?)
- Rácz Thermal Bath (optional -- best one?)
- House of Terror
- Széchenyi thermal bath (optional -- best one?)
- Fisherman's Bastion
Vienna, Austria (1 day | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Palace and Gardens Schönbrunn, Schönbrunner, Vienna
- Cathedral of Vienna
- Naschmarkt (market)
- Stiftsgymnasium Melk
- Hofburg Palace, Vienna
- Belvedere Palace, Vienna
- Liechtenstein Museum & Gardens, Vienna
- Haus Der Musik Museum (optional)
- Tandem Paragliding -See Austria from a totally different angle or white water rafting the tyrol (optional)
Salzburg, Austria (1 day | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Hohensalzburg Fortress, Castle, Salzburg, on the hill
- Hellbrunn palace water garden
- Mirabell Palace & gardens
Rust, Germany(4 days | 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012 )
- Day Trip: Europa Amusement Park, Rust Germany
- Day Trip: Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg, Castle, Orschwiller, France
- Day Trip: Burg Hohenzollern Castle, Burg Hohenzollern, Deutschland
- Day Trip: Lichtenstein Castle, Lichtenstein, Germany
Lausanne, Switzerland, Lake Genva, couchsurf free room (2 Day | 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- Swiss Pass Rail Pass discounted over Eurail prices offers free museums and attractions and Jungfrau discounts (get ticket counter isa student card)
- Blonay-Chamby Railroad
- Boat Ride lake Genva
- Lake Geneva and visit Chillon castle
Lucerne, Switzerland (3 days | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- Day Trip: Jungfrau Cog Railway, Glacier Express
> Day Trip: Oberhofn Castle, Jungfrau, Lake Thun
> Day Trip: Thun Chastle, Jungfrau, Lake Thun
- Day Trip: Kapellbrücke Castle, Lucerne, Switzerland
Munich, Germany (4 days | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- City Tour
- bike ride, get bike train stations
- Munich Spa
- Schloss Nymphenburg
- Biergarten Viktualienmarkt
- Hofbräuhaus
- Deutsches Museum (science museum in park)
- Saint Peter's Church
- Nymphenburg, Castle, Munich, Germany
- Frauenkirche - Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady
- Marienplatz City Center
- Residenz Münich
- Englischer Garten
- Day Trip: Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Germany
> Hohenschwangau, Castle, Schwangau, Germany
> Side Trip: Tegelberg Summer luge Roller Coaster, Schwangau, Germany, near Neuschwanstein Castle
> Tegelberg mountain cable car
- Day Trip: Linderhof Castle, Ettal, Germany
Plitvice National Park, Croatia (2 days | 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012 )
- National Park
- Day Trip: Predjama Castle, Predjama, Slovenia
Ottom Treck Tour(7 Days | 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012 )
- Split, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Sofia, Plovdiv, Istanbul (optional)
Istanbul, Turkey (3 days | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Sultanahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque)
- Galata Whirling Dervish Hall of Sufi Mevlevi
- Topkapi Palace
- Hagia Sophia
- Hagia Sophia Mosque
- Yildiz Park
- Suleymaniye Hammam, Thermal Bath (optional -- best one?)
- Sultanahmet Cami, Thermal Bath (optional -- best one?)
- EYÜP SULTAN CAMII, Thermal Bath (optional -- best one?)
- Rüstem Pasha Mosque
- Miniaturk
- Spice Bazaar
- Gülhane Park
- Grand Bazaar
- Yerebatansarayi
- Dolmabahçe Palace
- old section constananopal roman square hippadrome
- old town fishwitch
- aiasophia museum
Athens, Greece (3 days | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Lycabettus Hill
- Temple of Olympian Zeus
- Acropolis Museum
- Stoa of Attalos
- Parthenon
- Temple of Hephaestus
- national garden (optional)
- monataraki
- placa (optional)
- panopoleic
- Parnitha National Park (optional)
- The National Garden of Athens (optional)
- free bike tour of the old area of Athens --saturday/ Sunday (optional)
Egypt (5 days |Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012 )
- Precinct of Amun-Re
- Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Colossos of Memnon
- Mohammed Mosque, Berket an Nasr, Qism El-Salam, Cairo, Egypt
- Cairo, Ismailia, Qasr an Nile, Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Sound and Light Show, Citadel, Alabaster Mosque, and Sultan Husan Mosque
- Giza: Guided tour of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx
- Aswan: View the Unfinished Obelisk and High Dam; Felucca sailing; See the Botanical Gardens
- Nile Cruise: View Kom Ombo, the temple of two gods
- Edfu: Visit Temple to Horus; Horse and Buggy ride
Rome, Italy (5 days | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Vatican City
- Sistine Chapel
- St Peter's Basilica
- Trevi foutain
- Spanish steps
- Piazza Venezia
- Relais Spanish Steps
- Pantheon
- Piazza Navona
- Roman Forum
- Roman ampateater
- Colosseum
- Pompeii (optional)
- Day Trip: Borgo di Castel Gandolfo, Castle, Castel Gandolfo, Italy (optional)
- Day Trip: Villa d'Este, Castle (optional)
- Day Trip: Frascati Cathedral & Town, Frascati Roma, Italy (optional)
Pisa, Italy (Half Day | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012)
- Leaning Tower
- Piazza San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno, Square on the Lungarno, river Arno, Pisa, Italy
Cinque Terre, Italy (4 days | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Walk between two cities
> Hikes
- Beach
> Guvano Beach
Venice, Italy (4 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Ride Gondola
- Rialto market venice
- Piazza San Marco
- Bridge of Sighs
- Dojo secret passage way tour venice
- Vaparetto bus tour
- Villa Pisani, Stra Venezia, Italy (optional)
- Day Trip: Garland, Amusement Park, Verona, Italy (optional)
Barcelona, Spain (3 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012)
- City Tour
- La Sagrada Familia
- Casa milar
- Gaudis park quell
- Hotel Gargallo Gótico,
- Casa Batlló
- Laboquera Barcelona food market
- Montjuïc barcelona Bus 55 or bus Parc de Montjuïc/funicular de Montjuïc, then 10min walk. Follow signs to Mirador de Montjuïc
- Day Trip: North Figures, Dali museum, cool stuff in town
Loire Valley, Tours, France (3 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012 )
- Day Trip: Château de Villandry, Villandry, France
- Day Trip: Chenonceau Castle, Chenonceaux, France
- Day Trip: Chambord Castle, Chambord, France
- Day Trip: Futuroscope Amusement park, Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France
Paris, France (5 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012 )
- City Tour
> Get Paris Pass to save $$
- Arc De Triomphe
- Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
- Cathédrale Notre Dame
- Paris sewers
- Louvre
- Le Grand Palais
- Les Catacombes
- Musée d'Orsay
- Tuileries Garden (Gardens Near Eiffiel- Like Central Park)
- Eiffiel Tower
- The Jardin des Plantes, in the west of the city, not far from the Roland Garros tennis stadium (optional)
- Les Buttes de Chaumont (gardens), Rue Laumière, (Secret view Paris, Metro's Line 5, get off at Laumière, Climb up the hill around lake, view point.(optional).
- Musée du quai Branly gardens paris (optional)
- Day Trip: Fontainebleau, Castle, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France
- Day Trip: Versailles, Castle, France
London, UK (5 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012 )
- City Tour
> Get London Pass to save $$
- Big Ben
- Thams Cruise
- Tower of London
- Beckingham Palace
- London Eye
- Borough Market
- Highgate cemetary
- Leicester Square Box Office
> Theater Show (optional)
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
- Kensington Palace
- Harrods
- Churchill War Rooms | Imperial War Museums
- Hyde Park
- Houses of Parliament
- St James's Square
- London Museum
- The National Gallery, Museum of London, Natural History, Design, Tate Modern Museums (optional)
- Day Trip: Leeds Castle (optional)
- Day Trip: Brighton Pier & Royal Pavilion (optional)
- Museum of Penny Slot Machines
- Day Trip: Hampton Court Palace (optional)
- Day Trip: Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK (optional)
- Day Trip: Oxford, UK (optional)
- Day Trip: Pembroke Castle (optional)
- Day Trip: Bath
> The Roman bath
> Bath City Center
> bizare bath bath
> bath museum of costume
> Abbey
> Boat/ Canal tour
> Stonehenge tour, A344 Road, Amesbury, Wiltshire SP4 7DE
- Day Trip: Alton Towers Amusement Park, west of london, 7 Cross and Pillory Lane, Alton GU34 1HL (optional)
- Day Trip: thorpe-park, Amusement Park, Surrey
- Day Trip: Warwick Castle, North of London, Warwick, Warwickshire CV34 4QU (optional)
- Day Trip: Blenheim Palace, & Gardens Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (Half a Day | optional)
Iceland Air Stop Over to NYC (4 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012)
- City Tour (grey bus tour, or 4x4 jeep tours)
- modern Hallgrimskirkja, the church of Hallgrímur
- Day Trip: Gullfoss & Godafoss Waterfalls
- Day Trip: Seljalandsfoss & Skógarfoss Waterfall
- Day Trip: Hraunfossar Waterfall
- Day Tour: Dynjandi (Fjallfoss) Waterfall
- Blue Lagoon Thermal Baths
[END: Novemember 2012]
2) Would it make most since (it gets a a bit crazy around Prauge to Croatia routing wise I am not sure if it makes the most since, also don't know whatever to use train or plane for some connections):
arrive Moscow > fly to Saint Petersburg > fly to Oslo > train/regional train or fly? to Copenhagen > train to Colgne > train to Berlin > train to Warsaw > train to Prauge > train/regional train or fly? Budapest > train/regional train or fly? Vienna > train Salzburg > train Rust Germany > Swiss Pass rail Lausanne > Swiss Pass rail Lucere > Fly Munich > train/regional train or fly? Plitvice National Park Coratia > Bus Tour Eastern Europe Countries -- Istanbul > train/regional train or fly? Athens > fly Egypt > Fly Rome > train Pisa > train Cinque Terre > train Venice > train/regional train or fly? Seville/ Andulacea > train/regional train or fly? Barcelona > train/regional train or fly? Loire Valley > train Paris > train/regional train or fly? London
3) Should I get a Eurail 15 Day Select Pass for Amsterdam, Germany, Warsaw, Prauge, Vienna, Croatia, Italy, Spain, France ?
[START: August 3rd 2012]
Moscow, Russia (3 days | Arrival Date: 08/03/2012 - Departure Date: 08/06/2012)
- City Tour
- Kremlin
- Red Square
- Lenin's Mausoleum
- Garden of Fallen Monuments
- Tagansky Protected Command Point
- Saint Basil's Cathedral
- Krasnaya ploshchad
- Day Trip: Kuskovo Estate & Palace Museum
- Day Trip: Ostankino Palace
- Museum of Soviet Arcade Games (Optional)
- Victory Park (optional)
- Gorky Park (optional)
- the Nikulin circus on Tsvetnoi Bulvar (metro Tsvetnoi Bulvar), and the new circus near the University (optional)
- Japanese garden in Botanichesky Sad (optional)
- Patriarshi ponds area (optional)
- Kolomenskoye (optional)
- Bunker-42 (optional)
Saint Petersburg, Russia (3 days | Arrival Date: 08/06/2012 - Departure Date: 08/09/2012)
- City Tour
- Saint Isaac's Cathedral
- Church of the Savior Blood
- The Hermitage
- Peter and Paul's Fortress
- Summer Palace Peter the Great
- Day Trip: Peterhof Palace
- Day Trip: Winter Palace Russia
- Field of Mars (optional)
- Battleship Aurora (optional)
- Smolny Cathedral (optional)
- Norwegian air to Oslo Flight
Oslo, Norway (8 days | Arrival Date: 08/09/2012 - Departure Date: 08/16/2012)
- Visit Borther
- City Tour
- Breheimsenteret
- Fjord Safari en Flam
- Fjord Tours, Bergen, norway
- Flåm, Norway
- Jostedal glacier
- sognefjord
- solvorn
- Geiranger Fjord Cruise, waterfalls and age-old mountains.
- Mo I Rana Svartisen Glacier, hike to Norway's second largest glacier
- Seige of Leningrad memorial
- Visit Frogner Park and the Vigeland sculptures
- Fløibanen
- Nærøyfjorden
- Glacier hikes on the Nigardsbreen Glacier, Jostedal / Luster
- The Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset)
- Eu-Trans Norway (museum of transportation)
- Jotunheimen National Park
- Day Trip: TusenFryd Amusement Park, Vinterbro, Norway (optional)
Copenhagen, Denmark (3 days | Arrival Date: 08/16/2012 - Departure Date: 08/19/2012)
- City Tour by local guide Jan
- Canal Tour
- Trivolli Amusement Park (Full Day)
- The Botanical Gardens Copenhagen
- The Museum of National History
- Christianborg Palace (optional)
- Amalienborg Palace (optional)
- the Resistance Museum (optional)
- Day Trip: Fredensborg Palace, Denmark
Amsterdam, Netherlands (4 days | Arrival Date: 08/19 [or] 8/20/2012 - Departure Date: 08/25/2012)
- City Tour
- Day Trip: Rotterdam, visit friends
- Boat Tour
- Joy Ride Tours
- Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments
- bike the Dutch countryside & city
- the Resistance Museum
- the Royal Palace
- Sex museum (optional)
- Anne Frank House ambsterdam
- Erotic Museum (optional)
- Red Light District
- Hortus Botanicus (Botanical Garden) Amsterdam
- Day Trip: Keukenhof Gardens, tulips,etc... Lisse, Netherlands (optional)
- Day Trip: Efteling Amusement Park, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (optional)
Cologne, Germany (4 days | Arrival Date: 08/ /2012 - Departure Date: 08/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Cathedral
- Day Trip: Phantasialand Amusement Park (Brühl, Germany)
- Day Trip: Burg Eltz Castle, Münstermaifeld, Germany
- Day Trip: Heidelberg Castle, Heidelberg, Germany
Berlin, Germany (4 days | Arrival Date: 08/ /2012 - Departure Date: 08/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Boat Tour
- Gay museum
- Brandenburg Gate
- Reichstag (Parliament)
- Checkpiont Charlie
- Berlin Wall
- Potsdamer Platz Arkaden
- East-Side-Gallery
- Prater Garden
- Berlin holocaust museum (optional)
- The Jewish Museum (optional)
- Woerlitzer Landscape Park berlin (Erholungspark Marzahn)
- Day Trip: Schloss Charlottenburg berlin UBan west, Charlottenburg, Altes Schloss (Optional)
- Day Trip: Potsdam, using subway, castles: Neues Palace, see Sony Center
Warsaw, Poland (1 day | Arrival Date: 08/ /2012 - Departure Date: 08/ /2012)
- Auschwitz & Krakow Salt Mine (Wieliczka Salt Mine)
Prauge, Czech Republic (3 days | Arrival Date: 08/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Charles bridge
- Prauge Castle
- Petrin Hill
- Prauge Gardens
- Nebozizek
- Žižkov Television Tower
- Prauge Museums
- Wallenstein Palace Gardens prauge
- Day Trip: Schloss Pillnitz, Castle, Dresden, Germany
- Day Trip: Residenzschloss, Castle, Dresden, Germany
- Day Trip: Bojnice Castle, Bojnice, Slovakia (Zamok Bijnice)
Budapest, Hungary (3 days | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012) -- Optional?
- City Tour
- Royal Palace
- Matthias Church
- Memento Park
- Heroes' Square
- Budavári palota
- Széchenyi Gyógyfürdo
- Széchenyi Lánchíd
- Great Market Hall
- Rudas Baths (optional -- best one?)
- Rácz Thermal Bath (optional -- best one?)
- House of Terror
- Széchenyi thermal bath (optional -- best one?)
- Fisherman's Bastion
Vienna, Austria (1 day | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Palace and Gardens Schönbrunn, Schönbrunner, Vienna
- Cathedral of Vienna
- Naschmarkt (market)
- Stiftsgymnasium Melk
- Hofburg Palace, Vienna
- Belvedere Palace, Vienna
- Liechtenstein Museum & Gardens, Vienna
- Haus Der Musik Museum (optional)
- Tandem Paragliding -See Austria from a totally different angle or white water rafting the tyrol (optional)
Salzburg, Austria (1 day | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Hohensalzburg Fortress, Castle, Salzburg, on the hill
- Hellbrunn palace water garden
- Mirabell Palace & gardens
Rust, Germany(4 days | 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012 )
- Day Trip: Europa Amusement Park, Rust Germany
- Day Trip: Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg, Castle, Orschwiller, France
- Day Trip: Burg Hohenzollern Castle, Burg Hohenzollern, Deutschland
- Day Trip: Lichtenstein Castle, Lichtenstein, Germany
Lausanne, Switzerland, Lake Genva, couchsurf free room (2 Day | 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- Swiss Pass Rail Pass discounted over Eurail prices offers free museums and attractions and Jungfrau discounts (get ticket counter isa student card)
- Blonay-Chamby Railroad
- Boat Ride lake Genva
- Lake Geneva and visit Chillon castle
Lucerne, Switzerland (3 days | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- Day Trip: Jungfrau Cog Railway, Glacier Express
> Day Trip: Oberhofn Castle, Jungfrau, Lake Thun
> Day Trip: Thun Chastle, Jungfrau, Lake Thun
- Day Trip: Kapellbrücke Castle, Lucerne, Switzerland
Munich, Germany (4 days | Arrival Date: 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012)
- City Tour
- bike ride, get bike train stations
- Munich Spa
- Schloss Nymphenburg
- Biergarten Viktualienmarkt
- Hofbräuhaus
- Deutsches Museum (science museum in park)
- Saint Peter's Church
- Nymphenburg, Castle, Munich, Germany
- Frauenkirche - Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady
- Marienplatz City Center
- Residenz Münich
- Englischer Garten
- Day Trip: Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Germany
> Hohenschwangau, Castle, Schwangau, Germany
> Side Trip: Tegelberg Summer luge Roller Coaster, Schwangau, Germany, near Neuschwanstein Castle
> Tegelberg mountain cable car
- Day Trip: Linderhof Castle, Ettal, Germany
Plitvice National Park, Croatia (2 days | 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012 )
- National Park
- Day Trip: Predjama Castle, Predjama, Slovenia
Ottom Treck Tour(7 Days | 09/ /2012 - Departure Date: 09/ /2012 )
- Split, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Sofia, Plovdiv, Istanbul (optional)
Istanbul, Turkey (3 days | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Sultanahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque)
- Galata Whirling Dervish Hall of Sufi Mevlevi
- Topkapi Palace
- Hagia Sophia
- Hagia Sophia Mosque
- Yildiz Park
- Suleymaniye Hammam, Thermal Bath (optional -- best one?)
- Sultanahmet Cami, Thermal Bath (optional -- best one?)
- EYÜP SULTAN CAMII, Thermal Bath (optional -- best one?)
- Rüstem Pasha Mosque
- Miniaturk
- Spice Bazaar
- Gülhane Park
- Grand Bazaar
- Yerebatansarayi
- Dolmabahçe Palace
- old section constananopal roman square hippadrome
- old town fishwitch
- aiasophia museum
Athens, Greece (3 days | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Lycabettus Hill
- Temple of Olympian Zeus
- Acropolis Museum
- Stoa of Attalos
- Parthenon
- Temple of Hephaestus
- national garden (optional)
- monataraki
- placa (optional)
- panopoleic
- Parnitha National Park (optional)
- The National Garden of Athens (optional)
- free bike tour of the old area of Athens --saturday/ Sunday (optional)
Egypt (5 days |Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012 )
- Precinct of Amun-Re
- Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Colossos of Memnon
- Mohammed Mosque, Berket an Nasr, Qism El-Salam, Cairo, Egypt
- Cairo, Ismailia, Qasr an Nile, Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Sound and Light Show, Citadel, Alabaster Mosque, and Sultan Husan Mosque
- Giza: Guided tour of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx
- Aswan: View the Unfinished Obelisk and High Dam; Felucca sailing; See the Botanical Gardens
- Nile Cruise: View Kom Ombo, the temple of two gods
- Edfu: Visit Temple to Horus; Horse and Buggy ride
Rome, Italy (5 days | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Vatican City
- Sistine Chapel
- St Peter's Basilica
- Trevi foutain
- Spanish steps
- Piazza Venezia
- Relais Spanish Steps
- Pantheon
- Piazza Navona
- Roman Forum
- Roman ampateater
- Colosseum
- Pompeii (optional)
- Day Trip: Borgo di Castel Gandolfo, Castle, Castel Gandolfo, Italy (optional)
- Day Trip: Villa d'Este, Castle (optional)
- Day Trip: Frascati Cathedral & Town, Frascati Roma, Italy (optional)
Pisa, Italy (Half Day | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 10/ /2012)
- Leaning Tower
- Piazza San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno, Square on the Lungarno, river Arno, Pisa, Italy
Cinque Terre, Italy (4 days | Arrival Date: 10/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Walk between two cities
> Hikes
- Beach
> Guvano Beach
Venice, Italy (4 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012)
- City Tour
- Ride Gondola
- Rialto market venice
- Piazza San Marco
- Bridge of Sighs
- Dojo secret passage way tour venice
- Vaparetto bus tour
- Villa Pisani, Stra Venezia, Italy (optional)
- Day Trip: Garland, Amusement Park, Verona, Italy (optional)
Barcelona, Spain (3 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012)
- City Tour
- La Sagrada Familia
- Casa milar
- Gaudis park quell
- Hotel Gargallo Gótico,
- Casa Batlló
- Laboquera Barcelona food market
- Montjuïc barcelona Bus 55 or bus Parc de Montjuïc/funicular de Montjuïc, then 10min walk. Follow signs to Mirador de Montjuïc
- Day Trip: North Figures, Dali museum, cool stuff in town
Loire Valley, Tours, France (3 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012 )
- Day Trip: Château de Villandry, Villandry, France
- Day Trip: Chenonceau Castle, Chenonceaux, France
- Day Trip: Chambord Castle, Chambord, France
- Day Trip: Futuroscope Amusement park, Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France
Paris, France (5 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012 )
- City Tour
> Get Paris Pass to save $$
- Arc De Triomphe
- Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
- Cathédrale Notre Dame
- Paris sewers
- Louvre
- Le Grand Palais
- Les Catacombes
- Musée d'Orsay
- Tuileries Garden (Gardens Near Eiffiel- Like Central Park)
- Eiffiel Tower
- The Jardin des Plantes, in the west of the city, not far from the Roland Garros tennis stadium (optional)
- Les Buttes de Chaumont (gardens), Rue Laumière, (Secret view Paris, Metro's Line 5, get off at Laumière, Climb up the hill around lake, view point.(optional).
- Musée du quai Branly gardens paris (optional)
- Day Trip: Fontainebleau, Castle, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France
- Day Trip: Versailles, Castle, France
London, UK (5 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012 )
- City Tour
> Get London Pass to save $$
- Big Ben
- Thams Cruise
- Tower of London
- Beckingham Palace
- London Eye
- Borough Market
- Highgate cemetary
- Leicester Square Box Office
> Theater Show (optional)
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
- Kensington Palace
- Harrods
- Churchill War Rooms | Imperial War Museums
- Hyde Park
- Houses of Parliament
- St James's Square
- London Museum
- The National Gallery, Museum of London, Natural History, Design, Tate Modern Museums (optional)
- Day Trip: Leeds Castle (optional)
- Day Trip: Brighton Pier & Royal Pavilion (optional)
- Museum of Penny Slot Machines
- Day Trip: Hampton Court Palace (optional)
- Day Trip: Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK (optional)
- Day Trip: Oxford, UK (optional)
- Day Trip: Pembroke Castle (optional)
- Day Trip: Bath
> The Roman bath
> Bath City Center
> bizare bath bath
> bath museum of costume
> Abbey
> Boat/ Canal tour
> Stonehenge tour, A344 Road, Amesbury, Wiltshire SP4 7DE
- Day Trip: Alton Towers Amusement Park, west of london, 7 Cross and Pillory Lane, Alton GU34 1HL (optional)
- Day Trip: thorpe-park, Amusement Park, Surrey
- Day Trip: Warwick Castle, North of London, Warwick, Warwickshire CV34 4QU (optional)
- Day Trip: Blenheim Palace, & Gardens Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (Half a Day | optional)
Iceland Air Stop Over to NYC (4 days | Arrival Date: 11/ /2012 - Departure Date: 11/ /2012)
- City Tour (grey bus tour, or 4x4 jeep tours)
- modern Hallgrimskirkja, the church of Hallgrímur
- Day Trip: Gullfoss & Godafoss Waterfalls
- Day Trip: Seljalandsfoss & Skógarfoss Waterfall
- Day Trip: Hraunfossar Waterfall
- Day Tour: Dynjandi (Fjallfoss) Waterfall
- Blue Lagoon Thermal Baths
[END: Novemember 2012]
