Make your way to your local airport, where you will board your overnight flight(s). Your meals will be served on board.

Upon landing at Munich airport, claim your baggage, proceed to the Arrivals Hall, where your tour guide and/or driver will greet you. You’ll board the coach for the scenic ride to Salzburg. Along the way, stop in Altotting, an important pilgrimage site in Germany, to see the “Black Madonna of Altotting.” Continue to Salzburg where you will check into your hotel and enjoy dinner and overnight.

Today after breakfast you will have a day of exploring Salzburg. Attend Sunday Mass, and then start with a panoramic city tour where you will see the Cathedral, Mozart’s birthhouse, and the charming streets and squares of the city. Lunch is on your own, followed by a free afternoon. Dinner and overnight in Salzburg.

Check out of the hotel after breakfast, then board the coach for the driver to Maria Plain Shrine and view the “Virgin with Child” painting at the Basilica. Depart for Gaming with a stop in beautiful Mondsee. Embark on a Sound of Music tour after lunch, then proceed to the Kartause Gaming. Enjoy a tour of the Carthusian Monastery, now home to the Franciscan University of Steubenville study abroad campus. Overnight at the Kartause Hotel.

After breakfast at the hotel, depart for Mariazell, an important place of pilgrimage for Austrians. Visit the beautiful Basilica, then proceed to the Benedictine Abbey at Melk. Have lunch on your own, attend Mass at the Abbey, then enjoy a guided tour. Return to Gaming for dinner and overnight.

Check out of the hotel after breakfast, then depart for Vienna. Have lunch on your own upon arrival. Enjoy a visit to Schoenbrunn Palace, including the Apfel strudel cooking show with strudel and coffee included. Depart Schoenbrunn and check in to the hotel in Vienna. Dinner and overnight in Vienna.

After breakfast at the hotel, enjoy a panoramic tour of the Ring, followed by a walking tour of Vienna’s most famous sites, including Donner Fountain, Belvedere Palace Gardens, Hofburg Palace, Albertina, the Spanish Riding School, and St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Lunch is on your own, followed by a free afternoon to spend at your leisure. Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Vienna.

Following breakfast, ride to the Vienna ferry port to board the ferry for Bratislava. Upon arrival in the capital of Slovakia, meet a local guide for a walking tour of the city. You will have free time for lunch, then board the ferry for the return to Vienna. Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Vienna.

Check out of the hotel after breakfast, then board the bus for the drive to Budapest. Upon arrival in Budapest enjoy lunch on your own, followed by a tour of Budapest with a local guide. You will visit Fisherman’s Bastion, Mattias Church, and see the beautiful Parliament Building and St. Stephen’s Cathedral (exterior view). Check into your hotel and enjoy dinner and overnight in Budapest.

Following breakfast at the hotel, enjoy a Danube Bend tour as you head for Budapest. Visit Esztergom, seat of the Archbishop of Esztergom, and birthplace of St. Stephen, the Hungarian king. Continue to Visegrad and then to Szentendre, before returning to Budapest for a farewell dinner at a local restaurant. Overnight in Budapest.

After an early breakfast and heartfelt farewells, leave by motorcoach and transfer to Budapest Airport for return flights home.

*206 Tours Disclaimer:
Though every effort will be made to follow the itinerary, it should be considered as an indication, rather than a contract of places to be visited. Occasionally local religious holidays, national days, weather, traffic conditions and other events may necessitate changes in the sequence of visits or the missing of certain visits.