Bavaria!

This nine-day arc through three German-speaking countries follows one of Europe's most satisfying overland routes: medieval Germany in the west, the Alps in the center, and Swiss lake country before the journey home. The shape of the tour is almost geographical — your group descends from the half-timbered lanes of Rothenburg ob der Tauber through the Bavarian capital, crosses into the Tyrolean Alps at Innsbruck, and settles into Lucerne before a final stop in Heidelberg. That progression gives students a tangible sense of how landscape, dialect, and culture shift across a shared language region, which makes this tour a strong fit for German-language classrooms as well as history and European studies courses.