Local Living Tours & Trips in Austria and Germany

Cruise the Rhine, Main, and Danube rivers aboard Emerald Dawn, stopping at UNESCO-listed Cologne Cathedral's Christmas market and the Würzburg Residence. You'll have coffee and cake with a local Slovakian family in Bratislava and attend a traditional Hungarian folklore show in Budapest.

Get into Bavarian culture with brewery visits and beer tastings in Regensburg, then learn to bake Lebkuchen gingerbread with local chefs in Nuremberg. You'll meet villagers in Schermerhorn and check out 16th-century windmills, walk Miltenberg's cobblestone streets with half-timbered houses, and see Rüdesheim's 2,000-year-old wine-making traditions. There's time at local markets in Dürnstein and Passau too.

You'll sail on a 5-star Scenic Space-Ship through Austria and Germany, with a stop in UNESCO-listed Regensburg where you can check out the Romanesque Old Town and Gothic St. James Church. There's a visit to a family-owned butcher in Bavaria where you'll learn to make traditional white breakfast sausages, then head to a historic brewery to try some distinctive Bavarian brews.

You'll get a taste of authentic local life with a home-hosted coffee and cake visit with a Slovakian family in Bratislava, followed by an exclusive presentation at the Glass Art Museum in Wertheim. A traditional Bavarian band performs onboard while cruising through the Main-Danube Canal, and there's a Hungarian folklore show in Budapest.