Tour #4: Austrian Carriage Meet Posttal
Participation in Autria´s biggest carriage meet. 2 ½ day program with beer tent entertainment, carriage rallies, a parade through the little town as well as a five day tour back from the meet via the Flexenpass and the Lech River valley to the Royal castles and back to Lake Starnberger See.
Itinerary:
Day 1: In the late afternoon arrival at the Posttal (Klösterle or Dalaas), in the evening entertainment in the beer tent. Accomodation in the best available hotel of town.
Day 2: In the morning offical opening of the meet by the officials of the local government and the post administration. In the afternoon a small ralley of all participating turn-outs and carriages. In the evening prize awarding in the beer tent and folk music entertainment.
Day 3: In the morning catholic service in the church, later a big parade of all carriages along the road through the town.
Day 4: In the morning the mail-coaches will leave Dalaas and head uphill for the Flexenpass (1700m above sea level). Lunch at the famous ski resorts of Lech or Warth. Down the hills into the region of Tyrol and the Lech River valley. Overnight stop at Steeg, hotel "Post".
Day 5: Travelling along the banks of the river Lech through pictoresque mountain villages and over mountain pastures with grazing cattle. Picnic on a bank of the river. In the early evening arrival at the estate and guesthouse "Schluxen".
Day 6: Late in the morning via the historic "Prince´s Road" across the "Schwangauer Gitter" into Bavaria. Overnight at hotel "Müller" near the Royal Bavarian castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau. Plenty of opportunity to visit both castles.
Day 7: In the morning the mail-coaches travel northward to the Wies church, the most beautiful rococo church in Germany. Lunchbreak there in the former residence of the builder of the church, Dominikus Zimmermann. In the afternoon continuation of the tour through the mountain forests and along the "King´s Road", where King Ludwig II. once hastened from castle to castle. In the evening we arrive at Bad Bayersoien, a pictoresque village with an outstanding hotel "Parkhotel Bayersoien", where we spend the night.
Day 8: The mail-coach leaves in the morning from Bad Bayersoien through huge forests and fens, later through farmland to Eberfing, a small farm village with a historic post inn, where we will stop for lunch. Leaving the Alps behind the mail-coach drives through wide meadows, with the Alps in the background. Early evening the mail-coach arrives at Kerschlach, the home of Coaching-in-Bavaria. Here the tour ends.
Accomodations after the tour are optional.
Transfer back to Munich on request.
Include in the price:
Tour #3 (last departure) and tour #4 can be ideally combined.