Paris, Switzerland and the Riviera

This nine-day arc through France and Switzerland covers an enormous amount of geographic and cultural ground for a tour of its length — from the grand avenues of Paris to the lakeside calm of Lausanne to the sun-drenched Riviera at Nice. The through-line is contrast: imperial grandeur set against Alpine precision, northern French formality giving way to the Mediterranean ease of the Côte d'Azur. By the time your group is sitting in Nice on Day 8, having crossed two countries and three very different landscapes, the journey itself becomes part of the curriculum.