Pleasure, culture & culinary delights while hiking along the Danube
Multifaceted hiking paths, picturesque landscapes and the best of culinary pleasure ensure an all-round successful hiking holiday in the Danube region. You can expect just as many cultural sights along the routes as there are typical restaurants and taverns where you can strengthen yourself for the next hiking stage. The soothing murmur of the Danube, the second largest river in Europe, accompanies you on your hiking routes in this special travel destination in Austria.
Hiking holidays in the Wachau
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World Heritage Trail Wachau
The hiking holiday in the Wachau combines wine, culture and nature in a very special way. The numerous vineyards typical of this region invite you to enjoy the varied delicacies. In addition, you will hike along the fantastic scenery of the Danube valley. All details about hiking on the World Heritage Trail Wachau.
- All facts and details about our walking holiday World Heritage Trail Wachau, 8 days.
- The hiking holidays on the World Heritage Trail Wachau are also wonderfully suitable for hiking with a dog.
World Heritage Trail Wachau With Charm
While hiking with charm, you can enjoy all the advantages of the Wachau with the picturesque apricot gardens and vineyards even more intensively. When hiking with charm you can enjoy all the advantages of the Wachau with the picturesque apricot gardens and vineyards even more intensively. You will spend the night in particularly charming hotels and accommodations with that certain extra of comfort. After your hike you can relax in the accommodations for the upcoming hiking stages. More information and all tour details about our hiking holiday World Heritage Trail Wachau with Charm, 8 days at a glance.
- Even more information and details about hiking on the World Heritage Trail Wachau at a glance.
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This tour can also be booked as a short hiking holiday. More about the hiking holiday World Heritage Trail Wachau with Charm, 5 days.
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Hiking and wine in Lower Austria’s green heart
There are a few things you simply cannot avoid during a hiking holiday on the Danube: wine and juicy fruit. And that’s a good thing, because they are characteristic of the region between the cities of Melk and Krems. In the spring, summer and autumn especially, the Wachau is recommended. Be it the fragrant apricot blossoms, the shade under a vine-covered pergola, the wine tavern or the grape harvest later in the year. There’s nowhere else you can get closer to fine wines than the Wachau. In many parts the trails lead directly through the vineyards. With the wine region right in front of your nose, and the Danube at your feet, a hiking holiday cannot get any better.
The Wachau: from vineyards, apricot groves and tavern culture
In the Wachau they call taverns “Heuriger”, and apricots are called “Marillen”. These and even more quaint characteristics of this charming region in Lower Austria can be experienced during a hiking holiday. The Wachau has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000 – and not without cause. Because the region in the Danube Valley is full of surprises that want to be explored. From the hidden vineyards to the ruins of Dürnstein, where Richard the Lionheart was once imprisoned. Hardly anywhere else hiking and wine come together as harmoniously as in the Wachau.
