Tauck

Highlights

• Both the young and young at heart delight aboard aweeklong Danube river cruise filled with European holiday festivities onboard and ashore...Your family will discover Europe's time-honored holiday traditions in historic cities and towns along the Danube featuring the sights
• flavors
• and music of the season. Sightseeing is designed for all generations to enjoy together – in Oberndorf
• home of 'Silent Night'… at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna and magnificent Melk Abbey... in Old Town Bratislava with medieval games and a scavenger hunt… and in Budapest
• 'the Pearl of the Danube.' And you'll toast the season during a Tauck Exclusive evening at a private palace in Vienna with dinner

Highlights

• Visit five UNESCO World Heritage Sites on guided visits with local experts; a meeting with the former Minister of Tourism in Zagreb; exclusive visits to a family owned truffle farm with a tasting; private early opening tour of Postojna Caves; a Croatian wine tasting and a visit with a local artist and a silk making demonstration; insights about printing and wine making in Bled Castle; learn about traditional olive oil production.

Highlights

• Join us on a Galápagos cruise that is enriching and informative
• adventurous and in-depth. Throughout the archipelago
• your Galápagos cruise takes you past breathtaking scenery and a plethora of exotic animals unique to only this part of the worldEnjoy a six-night Galápagoscruise aboard one of the finest expeditionary-style yachts in the archipelago
• Isabela II – with no more than 40 Tauck guests – and experienceamazing wildlife viewing and an opportunity to get up-close to creatures such as blue-footed boobies
• sea lions

Highlights

• Cruise along the River Danube from Budapest to Amsterdam on an amazing journey past grand cathedrals
• medieval monasteries
• castles and vineyards
• including a once-in-a-decade visit to Floriade
• the “world’s fair” of horticultural exhibitions.Pass through five countries including the Netherlands

Highlights

• Private visit to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; private presentation by local chef; visit to a private artist's studio in Santa Fe; private welcome and talk at National Museum of Nuclear Science; Albuquerque's Old Town and Indian Pueblo Cultural Center; visit to Pueblo de Taos
• enhanced by storyteller's tales; Bandelier National Monument; Rio Grande float trip; guided visit to Ghost Ranch.

Highlights

• Tauck-Exclusive opportunity to see First Nations artisans weave baskets
• make drums or work on other handicrafts at the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre; guided tour by a beekeeper of Arlo's Honey Farm in British Columbia to learn how the bees make honey and see them at work in the gardens complete with a tasting of the product; private whale watching cruise with an expert naturalist in the waters off Victoria Island for a chance to spot killer whales
• minke
• humpback and gray whales; two nights at the unique Swarovski crystal-infused Sparkling Hill Resort; drive on Icefields Parkway and an Ice Explorer ride atop a glacier in Banff National Park; float trip on the Bow River; nature walk at Lake Louise with a naturalist guide; lunch at CedarCreek Estate Winery; visit to a wildlife park in British Columbia; choice of exploring Whistler by gondola or a visit to the Audain Art Museum; The Butchart Gardens in Victoria; flightseeing by floatplane from Victoria to Vancouver

Highlights

• In the Netherlands
• flowers are a way of life...You'll see flower boxes abloom with tulips and an array of colorful potted plants in villages and towns all over Holland. Gardens grace the landscapes everywhere you look
• paying homage to an economy which is largely horticultural based...Everywhere you look
• a kaleidoscope of colorful images... on walking tours and bicycle rides... in the seasonal pageantry of tulips
• daffodils and hyacinths abloom in Keukenhof Gardens... in Kinderdijk windmills and coastal villages steeped in cultural treasures... at a Tauck Exclusive dinner in a palace museum rich with Old Dutch art masterpieces... in gabled houses dressed in maritime lore along Amsterdam's tree-lined canals... on walking tours of cobblestoned Ghent and the fairy tale streets of Bruges... during discoveries about immigrant voyages and sculpted monuments and chocolate in Belgium...

Highlights

• Explore the romantic lower Danube through the heart of Central Europe
• where East and West meet and intertwine in fascinating cultures and turbulent history... Glide past medieval monasteries
• citadels and villages...Discover resort towns along Romania's Black Sea Coast
• explore an ancient Christian necropolis in Pecs
• and visit 'Dracula's' castle in Transylvania... dine in the Soviet-style People's Palace in Bucharest... Share homemade refreshments in the home of a Croatian family rebuilding their lives in postwar Vukovar