WHERE THE SUN KISSES THE WINE

04 - 11 August, 2006

 

Here is your chance to experience some of the most breath-taking scenery in the famous wine regions of France and Germany.  Combine your wine-tasting tour with visits to ancient monasteries, inspiring cathedrals and historic fortresses.  Your tour takes you through spectacular scenery in Breisach on the Rhine at the French border, St. Margen, Hintersarten, Lake Titisee, Colmar, the Alsacian Wine Road, Triberg, the Black Forest and much more.. Enjoy wine festivals, dining, exploring, social gatherings, health and spa facilities, sight seeing and of course wine tasting! 
This tour is not subject to a single supplement.

 

 

Friday 04 Aug  
You will arrive into Basel-Mulhouse Airport.  This is a tri-national airport, so exit where you see the exit marked ‘France’.
Or at Freiburg Main Railstation coming from Frankfurt Airport.
You will ‘transfer from there by bus (45 Minutes) to Muenstertall  - a beautiful town in a Black-Forest  valley with old Black –Forest-houses and a beautiful view into the Black-Forest. You will stay in comfortable 3*  Hotel”Adler-Stube”  located in  the  town of  Muenstertal;the Hotel can offer double and single rooms with private bath/shower, private toilet, telephone, television, radio and balcony .The hotel  serve  only  breakfast ,but it has a  full-bar service for  drinks. The  Hotel has  also a Sauna  and a fitness- room.  You  will have  a welcome-drink and your English speaking tour-guide will introduce the various attractions of Muenstertal and the  itinerary  of the tour during your stay. 5.30p.m  We visit  the baroque Convent Church Saint Trudpert founded by an  Irish Monk  named  Trudpert. 6.00 p.m Welcome-Dinner at  a Restaurant  in Muenstertal

Day 2  Saturday 5th  August 
08.00hrs Breakfast at the hotel till 9am. Tour to  FREIBURG. Take the commuter-train into Freiburg The train departs  at  Muenstertal-Station
Guided Sight Seeing Tour of Freiburg.  Visit the famous „Munster“-Gothic Cathedral- and stroll around the  colourful  old cobblestone market place, visit the historic buildings and stroll through the narrow old Freiburg lanes with their ancient small roadside-streams. We can take lunch in one of the friendly wine-taverns on the Münster-market-place and enjoy the flair of Freiburg`s young, lively and cosmopolitan atmosphere. Freiburg is the seat of a famous major university, attracting students from all over the world. Time for Shopping in the main shopping areas. Return from Freiburg  by our Tour-Bus to Muenstertal 6.00 p.m h    Dinner  in  a  Restaurant  in  Muenstertal 8.30 p.mh Bus Tour to the “Staufen Wine festival”  to Staufen an old  town, .On the Featival- Place, we will visit the famous “Staufen Markgräfler Winefestival.  We will stay on at the Festival for approximately 4 hours, you can stroll around, sample the beautiful wines and foods in the booths and tents. The booths and tents are served by different local Clubs and Wineries, You can also enjoy  “Blasmusik” and dancing in one of the booth or tents. We leave Staufen Wine festival  around 12.30 a.m. h   and transfer by bus back to your hotel in Muenstertal. only 10 minutes drive.

Day 3 Sunday 6th August

08.00hrs. Breakfast till 10am, enjoy the morning at your leisure. Or you could visit  with  a guide Black-Forest- Woodcarver in Muenstertal, he has carved  his hole  house. You  could also get wood-carved gifts. 1.30p.m h  Guided sightseeing bus tour, Spa. Culinary & Wine Tasting.
We visit again again  the medieval town of Staufen where the wine festival is going on this days. Staufen is well-known as the background for Goethe`s  ‘Dr.Faustus’ - a mystic alchemist and magician who is said to have called for the help of the devil ‘Mephisto’ - son of the hell, to produce pure gold for the Earl of Staufen. After the devil’s appearance, ‘Dr.Faustus’ was killed by Mephisto in 1539. The old ‘Gasthof Löwen’, where Dr.Faustus lived, is still in existence.  Enjoy sightseeing in Staufen. We continue to the famous Health Spa - Badenweiler, with ruins of thermal pools, built in Roman Conquerors time during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian (69-79 AD), which we visit.You will have an opportunity to walk in the Spa-Garden and visit the Cassiopeia Thermal Pools.
5.30 p.m. Wine tasting in private Winery in Ballrechten-Dottingen, with 5 different wines and snacks. Return to Muenstertal to your hotel
20.00hrs Dinner at the hotel

Day 4 Monday,07th  August   
8.00a.m. Breakfast. 9.00a.m. Bus TOUR to  the famous  health spa Bad Kozingen . 9.30.a.m. We have  a tour through the”Vita  Classica” spa pools  and sauna  and Wellness-Complex , guide by the Manager  Spa –Administration Mr.Ganter Afterward you could go for a swim  in this beautiful pool –center. A  mecca for spa goers thermal outdoor  and  indoor swimming pools with 35 o -95 0 degree temperature  water.  Or you could go for a walk in  the  spa garden . 12.30 p.m. we will have a warm lunch at the Kurhaus-Restaurant ,one nice weather we can  sit outside  in the  Beer Garden of this Restaurant. This  Lunch is included in the tour price. After Lunch at 2.00 pm we go on our tour-bus to the beautiful wine growing area of  Kaiserstuhl. We drive to Breisach on the Rhine at the French border and visit the medieval “Münster“ cathedral and fortress where
you can enjoy a wonderful view over the Rhine to the Vosges mountains in France. 3.30 pm we  visit to the Breisach Sparkling Wine-Winery (Champagne), which will include a 2 hour guided tour with anEnglish- speaking tour guide, through the huge champagne -cellars, complete with champagne-tasting! Via the world-famous wine-growing area „Kaiserstuhl“ we return to your hotel. 7.30p.m  Dinner  at a Restaurant in Muenstertal.  Later opportunity to attend again the Staufen “Markgräfler-Wine Festival “ for the last day of the festival.

Day 5 Tuesday 8th  August
08.00hrs Breakfast until 9am. 09.10hrs Bus tour to the Black Forest. You will enjoy sweeping views, lush valleys, pine covered hillsides and verdant cattle-meadows.  We visit the Baroque Monastery St.Peter-Church with an impressive old library. From there we follow the picturesque mountain-road to St.Märgen and to Hinterzarten, a famous climatic health resort. Afterwards you will enjoy the international flair of Lake Titisee, famous worldwide for the numerous Cuckoo Clock souvenir shops. We continue the to lake ‘Schluchsee’ a paradise for aquaticsports. On the way back we follow the ‘Valley of Hell’ with exciting views, passing the Hirschsprung ‘Stag`s Leap’ and return via Freiburg to Münstertal. 19.00hrs Dinner in a Restaurant in Müstertal. Relax at the  hotel or in the town.

Day 6 Wednesday 9th  August
08.00 a.m  until 10.00 a. m  Breakfast  free time in the Morning  if  you like at 9.30 a.m Transfer by car to the Vita-Classica  Pool in Bad Krozingen for swimming 1.00 p.m.Bus tour to Alsace,France and Wine tasting in the Kaiserstuhl Area. We visit Colmar and the Unterlinden museum with the famous Matthias Grünewald  ‘Isenheim Altar Piece’. Continue along the Rue de Wine Alsacian Wine Road, and then continue to Germany again via the Kaiserstuhl-Wine area.  Here we enjoy some more wine tasting in a winery with 5 different wines from one of famous wine areas in Germany.
7.30 p.m.Return to Hotel Münstertal. 8.00 p.m Dinner at  Restaurant in Münstertal

Day 7 Thursday 10 th  August
07.30 a.m Breakfast until 08.15hrs. 08.30 a.m. Depart hotel till 6.00 p.m. History, Life, Tradition, Craft, Black Forest. Driving to Furtwangen, we visit the German Clock Museum and have an English speaking guided tour through the Museum. We pass Triberg, famous for the Germany’s highest waterfall. Continue to Gutach, well known for the milliner of traditional BOLLENHUT (Black Forest special hat and visit the oldest Black Forest Houses (VOGTBAUERNHÖFE). 1 hour break to walk around in this open-air museum. 2.00 p.m. Black-Forest Lunch (included in the tour price) in open-air museum Gasthaus . Afterwards we will  visit the Glassblowers in Wolfach and have time for some shopping in their special Christmas Shop. On our way back  we visit the Museum of Traditional Costumes in Haslach.  Return via Freiburg to Hotel in  Muenstertal. 20.00hrs. Farewell Dinner at the Restaurant  in Muenstertal.

Day 8 Friday 11th August
08.00hrs Breakfast. Morning at leisure. Depart Hotel Adler-Stube / Münstertal  for EUROAIRPORT BASEL to the flights to your destination

Tour Price:   €812/AU$1345.00 per person twin room share

Price Includes:

• 7 nights in a 3* Hotel “Adler-Stube” in the Black-Forest in Muenstertal
• Buffetfet breakfast each morning
• 6 three-course dinners
• 2 lunches
• 2 free admissions to the thermal pools in Bad Krozingen
• Airport – hotel return transfers
• 7 sightseeing tours and excursions
• All taxes, entrance fees and service charges
• English speaking guide throughout the tour

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