Itinerary - Classic Walking Holiday
This Is a Sample Itinerary for our 10-Day Walking Holiday
Day 1 - Arrival & Orientation
11am tour start. Be met by your hosts in Feldkirch. Drive up through Grosses Walsertal valley to your ‘home’ in Faschina at 1480 altitude metres. After lunch settle into your accommodation and then go for a walk to stretch the legs and familiarise yourself with the beautiful surrounds. Welcome drink and dinner with your Hosts to celebrate the start of the tour.
Day 2 - Explore Fontanella & Faschina
Get introduced to Patrick’s home village of Fontanella (population 470!). Gain an insight into how little alpine villages operate, and in so doing you’ll go back to another era – a slower time where townsfolk stop in the street for a leisurely chat.
We then go back up to explore Faschina’s surrounding mountains with lunch at Franz Josef’s restaurant in ‘the bowl’. Back at the hotel (over coffee & cake) we have some fun learning some German language as well as the local ‘Walser‘ dialect.
Day 3 - Stein mountain & Martha's hut
We’ll take a spectacular bus ride through to the other side of the 'Grosses Walsertal' valley to start today’s walk.
We walk up and over a pass to Martha’s Hut to enjoy her hospitality, then enjoy a meandering walk down the other side through flower-filled meadows and a ‘Sound Garden’ to a quaint chapel.
We return to our side of the valley via a cable car over the stunning ravine which is ‘Grosses Walsertal’.
Day 4 - A Day on the Famed Arlberg
Experience the famed ‘Arlberg’ mountain massif as well as the village of Lech - chosen by Princess Diana and Europe’s jet-set crowd each winter.
Our lunch destination is a 500+ year old Walser settlement, where traditional alpine fare of cheese, meat & bread are on offer
(accompanied by schnapps for those willing!)
Day 5 - Sightseeing Day: Lindau Island (Germany)
A day to give the legs a bit of a rest. We drive to Bregenz, one of Austria’s famed cultural cities, on the edge of Lake Constance (Bodensee) to take a ferry ‘overseas’ to the beautiful old medieval town of Lindau in Germany.
Shopping, dining, strolling or just sitting by the pretty harbour – whatever takes your fancy.
Day 6 - Zafernhorn peak & Bergtea Project
Hike the mountain that sits grandly in front of your hotel – for the keen ones the summit awaits at 2107m. Beautiful views down the Grosses Walsertal are a highlight of this walk.
Enjoy lunch at an alpine pub, before spending the afternoon with Elisabeth (Patrick’s mother). She will introduce the local flowers, herbs and folklore which make the Berg Tee Project – culminating in the making of your own!
Day 7 - Damuels and Dairy Farm Visit
We go to the neighbouring valley area of Damuels. We visit a working alp hut to see how their traditional cheese is made before embarking on an ascent to the top of Suenser Spitze summit (2061m). We picnic up in the heights today – overlooking vistas of endless mountain tops.
Day 8 - Liechtenstein and another Walser village
We drive across the border into the Principality of Liechtenstein to visit Vaduz Castle (and maybe the duke).
We then drive into the hills to Malbun, another Walser alpine village nestled in amongst the rugged mountains where we'll hike up to the top of the mountain for a lunch with a majestic scenery.
Day 9 - Local Museum & Buchboden Valley
A guided tour of the local museum with Elisabeth will help comprehend the history, traditions and environmental significance of this lovely valley.
We then go to explore Grosses Walsertal from a different angle – from within its cool and lush valley floor. Crystal clear rivers and natural grottos provide delight along this walk, as does the health spring which has attracted visitors for over 400 years.
Day 10 - Departure, Monastery & Feldkirch
Pack up and say good bye to your alpine home of Faschina. Drive down Grosses Walsertal one last time, with a stop at the St Gerold monastery.
We then go to Feldkirch to lunch together at the medieval Schattenburg Schloss (castle). The must have dish is their famed Wiener Schnitzel – a fitting end to this trip at 2pm.
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