Grossglockner High Alpine Road & Neuschwanstein Castle – 850 KM Self-Drive Tour

Munich Trip Overview

Enjoy effortless navigation over the Autobahn in Germany into Austria and over the iconic Grossglockner High Alpine Road. Stay overnight at highly rated 4* hotel in the Austrian Alps and Munich. Visit the most iconic of all German castles: Neuschwanstein. Expect hazy blue lakes, quaint villages and scenic roads surrounded by green meadows. Get delivery of your touring pack holding a pre-programmed GPS and an hour-by-hour road-book to your hotel in Munich. Make your own car arrangements to explore an incredible scenic holiday route.

Additional Info

Duration: 4 days
Starts: Munich, Germany
Trip Category: Outdoor Activities >> 4WD, ATV & Off-Road Tours



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Enjoy effortless navigation over the Autobahn in Germany into Austria and over the iconic Grossglockner High Alpine Road. Stay overnight at highly rated 4* hotel in the Austrian Alps and Munich. Visit the most iconic of all German castles: Neuschwanstein. Expect hazy blue lakes, quaint villages and scenic roads surrounded by green meadows. Get delivery of your touring pack holding a pre-programmed GPS and an hour-by-hour road-book to your hotel in Munich. Make your own car arrangements to explore an incredible scenic holiday route.

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive to Munich – enjoy the day free & easy

Pass By: Munich Central Station, Bayerstrasse 10A, 80335 Munich, Bavaria Germany
Arrive to Munich and enjoy the day free and easy, before we meet at 5:00 PM for the handover of the touring pack with the pre-programmed GPS and the days-by-day road-book

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.

Day 2: Tour 1 – German Autobahn into Bavaria & Drive the Grossglockner High Alpine Road

Stop At: Grossglockner High Alpine Road, B107 Seidlwinkl, Heiligenblut 5020 Austria
Expect 48 kilometres of pure driving pleasure with 36 turns and up to six meters road width – the best possible condition. The legendary “Grossglockner-Hochalpenstraße” or Grossglockner High Alpine Road, is the highest surfaced mountain pass in Austria nestled in the Hohe Tauern National Park between the city of Salzburg and the southern Austrian border to Italy. The peak reaches at 2,504 m (8,215 ft) and got his name from the mountain it climbs.
Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Kufstein Fortress, Festung 2, Kufstein 6330 Austria
The top of the Kufstein fortress can be reached by a short funicular ride, At the top are lovely views of the surrounding area with good museums. A journey into the past.
Duration: 1 hour

No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: highly rates 4* hotel in the Austrian Alps

Day 3: Tour 2 – Drive the Grossglockner or take the Felbtauern Route

Stop At: Grossglockner High Alpine Road, B107 Seidlwinkl, Heiligenblut 5020 Austria
Drive the spectacular road a second time in the opposite direction and get a completely different experience. Maybe its time to let you passenger have some fun and steer the car?
Duration: 2 hours

Pass By: National Park Hohe Tauern, Hof, Heiligenblut Austria
For those wanting to see more… instead of driving the Grossglockner High Road in the opposite direction (as the day before), we recommend the fast sweeping roads of the Hohe Tauern National Park

Stop At: Krimml Falls (Krimmler Wasserfalle), Wasserfallweg 47 Section OeAV Warnsdorf / Krimml, Krimml 5743 Austria
Visit the Krimml Waterfalls, with a total height of 380 metres, are the highest waterfall in Austria.
Duration: 2 hours

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.

Day 4: Tour 3 – Neuschwanstein Castle

Pass By: Hahntennjoch, Bschlaber Landesstraße, 6647 Gemeinde Imst, Austria
The pass offers a scenic 29 kilometres with first wooded areas with tall pines, followed by moonlike barren rocks and an oasis with green meadows and impressive mountain tips on the top.

Attention – the Hahntennjoch Pass can be closed occasionally – we will re-route you in that case.

Stop At: Neuschwanstein Castle, Neuschwansteinstraße 20, 87645 Schwangau, Germany
With its towers, turrets, frescoes, and throne hall, Neuschwanstein (or Schloss Neuschwanstein, as it is called in German) looks like it was plucked straight from your favourite fairy tale.
Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Schloss Linderhof, Linderhof 12, 82488 Ettal, Bavaria Germany
Linderhof Palace is a Schloss in Germany, in southwest Bavaria near Ettal Abbey. It is the smallest of the three palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the only one which he lived to see completed.
Duration: 45 minutes

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.



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