Tour Details

Make the most of this offer and buy the Getaway to the Rhine Falls and The Best of Zurich with cog-wheel to Zuerichberg at a very special price. Getaway to the Rhine Falls: you will see the fantastic Rhine Falls, Europe's largest waterfall. It is only 23 metres high but has an impressive width of 150 metres and an average of 25'000 cubic feet of water per second (700m3/sec). You will be dropped off on the north bank of the river Rhine where you can admire the turreted castle called Schloss Laufen on a cliff directly above the falls. The tour also takes you to Northern Switzerland where you will drive through Schaffhausen with its famous Munot Fortress, dating from the 16th century. The Best of Zurich with cog-wheel to Zuerichberg: discover the castle-like National Museum, the shopping and business centre on Bahnhofstrasse, the Limmatquai with its medieval Old Town, the largest church clock-face of Europe on St. Peter, the patriarchal Guild Houses, the Opera house and the lake (picture stop). Enjoy travelling uphill on the cog-wheel railway into the Zurichberg district with its noble Grand Hotel Dolder and many superb mansions of glorious past times. You will see the University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Its most famous student and professor was Albert Einstein. Finally there will be a stop in the Old Town at Fraumunster Church, where you will admire the famous Chagall-Windows. After this, your guide will invite you to a short stroll through the Old Town. All infants must be registered. Unregistered minors and their accompanying adult(s) can be excluded from the service with no refund.