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Geneva
Trip Planning & Itineraries
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Geneva is Switzerland's second-largest city, but surely the most international: a third of the population is from elsewhere. Geneva is crowded with museums, has excellent cultural events, even more good restaurants, and is ideally placed for quick hops to the Swiss and French Alps.
Basking in the sunshine of its peaceful setting on Lake Geneva's banks, it displays an obvious self-confidence. It is in pristine condition, clean, efficient and safe.
All of Geneva: City, Lake, Countryside
From USD $86.41
The city tour of Geneva visits the International part of Geneva through the center of the world's peacemaking organizations followed by a drive along Geneva's scenic route. Next continue on a one hour commented cruise around the Geneva Lake on the 'Cruise of the Mermaid'.
Gstaad & Les Diablerets
From USD $152.19
The charming road of the Saanenland region offers you a mosaic of colors in postcard-perfect images. Take a gondolier ride to the top of a glacier and then do some shopping in the world-famous village of Gstaad.
Suggested Itineraries: Geneva
Geneva's best-known festival is l'escalade, held on December 11, when enormous amounts of chocolate and marzipan are consumed. L'escalade celebrates the day in 1602 when one of the invading Duke of Savoy's soldiers was thwarted by an unhappy housewife who poured her boiling cauldron of vegetable soup over him and then smashed it over his head.
Sensibly, Genevans mark the occasion by eating chocolate instead of vegetable soup. Apart from the chocolate scoffing, there are torch-lit processions in period costume, a huge bonfire in the cathedral square, and then even more chocolate scoffing.
