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HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS
■ Albula Railway Museum
GRAND TOURS ■ 3 course meal on the Gourmino Dining car
■ Return trip on Bernina Express

■ Rhine Gorge Experience train
■ Crocodile heritage train
■ 5-day Graubünden Ticket
Rhaetian Railway SELECTED HOTELS
Chur
Hotel Freieck
Rhätischebahn Explorer Please note - hotel can be subject to change

PRICE INCLUDES
■ Economy flights from Heathrow to Zürich
■ Standard class rail travel from Zürich to Chur
Wednesday 24 May to Tuesday 30 May 2023 ■ First class 5-day Graubünden ticket for unlimited
travel in the region
■ Excursions as described
A week’s holiday devoted entirely to exploring Switzerland’s famous Rhätischebahn ■ 3 course meal on the Gourmino Dining car
in the mountainous canton of Graubünden. ■ Accommodation in good quality hotel on a
bed and breakfast basis
■ Services of a tour leader from London and
Day 1 - Fly to Switzerland Day 4 - Vereina Tunnel, Scuol-Tarasp & throughout the tour
We start our tour by taking a lunchtime flight from Gourmino Dining
London Heathrow to Zürich with an onward rail We take a morning train through the car transporting
connection to Chur. Our hotel for the next 6 nights Vereina tunnel to Scuol-Tarasp, the most easterly Price per person: £1,785
Escorted holiday
is centrally located in Chur where we stay on a bed station in Switzerland before heading back via Single room supplement £300
and breakfast basis. Zernez and Bever to St. Moritz. After a brief break
we board the afternoon Gourmino dining train back Deposit for this holiday £200
Day 2 - Rhätischebahn at Leisure to Chur and enjoy a three course meal.
We find our feet on the narrow gauge lines of the
Rhätischebahn this morning by exploring some of Day 5 - Rhine Gorge Experience & Arosa a Crocodile! One of these metal beasts, named
the Albula line with its twists, turns and double back After a leisurely breakfast we board the Rhine Gorge as such because of their long “noses” at each end,
curves. In the afternoon we visit the Albula Railway Experience train featuring open air carriages for an reminiscent of the snout of a crocodile, will haul us
Museum located at Bergün station where we learn unobstructed view of the gorge. This train travels to onboard a heritage train to Filisur and back in time
about the history of the Albula railway, have a go at Ilanz where we journey through the untamed Rhine for a lunch break in Davos. This afternoon is free to
driving a Crocodile on the driving simulator and see Gorge, along the turquoise-green waters of the explore further or, if you’re feeling energetic, take a
the line in miniature at the model railway. Rhine, past rock walls known as ‘ruinas’ rising up to hike to the Landwasser viaduct and photograph the
350m high. We return to Chur, where after a break afternoon trains passing.
Day 3 - Bernina Express for lunch, we travel up the Arosabahn to the resort
A full day escorted excursion from Chur to Tirano town of Arosa before returning at leisure to Chur. Day 7 - Homeward Bound
in first class reserved seats on the Bernina Express Morning train back to Zürich Airport where we
route. With its spirals and tunnels and reaching Day 6 - Swiss Crocodiles board an afternoon flight back to London.
an altitude of more than 2000m this journey is This morning we make our way to Davos where
breathtaking. we find the unlikeliest of creatures awaiting us,

Bernina Express at Alp Grum © Marcus Gyger - swiss-image.ch

Lake Davos, Davos, Switzerland

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