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Scenic River Stretches 5: Saxon Switzerland

One part of the river cruise experience is that you just unpack once and your hotel brings you to another quaint town every day. But there is more, the beautiful stretches of the rivers you'll pass on your way. Therefore let's have a look on the few natural sights hiding in my database. In the last entry we dealt with the Iron Gates, this posting deals with the Saxon Switzerland.

The Saxon Switzerland
Upstream of Dresden, southeast.. Bohemian Switzerland Elbe Sandstone Mountains

Historical Water Level 1901 - 2012

A brief guide how to access them plus some a table with historical events of interest.

Vintage Pictures of German Rivers

While checking the Internet for extreme river conditions in Germany, I stumbled upon this great source of vintage pictures.

Viking on the Mississippi

Viking River Cruises has plans for a Longship on the Mississippi river in 2015. However there might be some serious legal & design problems. Let's have a look

Trip Report: Ingolstadt Audi Museum

Some cruises offer excursions to the Audi Factory and Museum at Ingolstadt. I was able to escort a group there, so here are my impressions.

March: Big announcements this month

A lot of things happened over the last two weeks in the world of river cruises. And as I got plenty of things to do - like organizing the app being ported to Android - here are the tags and links to the other sited on the web:

First the general stuff I wanted to share: An interesting article on the boost in demand for european river cruises. Note: All numbers are just UK pax. Read more.

Scenic River Stretches 4: The Camargue

One part of the river cruise experience is that you just unpack once and your hotel brings you to another quaint town every day. But there is more, the beautiful stretches of the rivers you'll pass on your way. Therefore let's have a look on the few natural sights hiding in my database. In the last entry we dealt with the Wachau Valley, this posting deals with the Camargue.

The Camargue - the Rhone Delta

Scenic River Stretches 3: Iron Gates

One part of the river cruise experience is that you just unpack once and your hotel brings you to another quaint town every day. But there is more, the beautiful stretches of the rivers you'll pass on your way. Therefore let's have a look on the few natural sights hiding in my database. In the last entry we dealt with the Wachau Valley, this posting deals with the Iron Gates.

The Iron Gates
Passed on every cruise downstream of Budapest to the Bucharest and the Black Sea.

Scenic River Stretches 2: Wachau Valley

One part of the river cruise experience is that you just unpack once and your hotel brings you to another quaint town every day. But there is more, the beautiful stretches of the rivers you'll pass on your way. Therefore let's have a look on the few natural sights hiding in my database. In the last entry we dealt with the Rhine Gorge, this posting deals with the Wachau Valley.

Scenic founds new company: Riva Waterways

Scenic Tours founded a new company for the European Market. When I read this first I was a bit confused, as Scenic already operates 7 ships in Europe and owns 100% Evergreen Tours. For the last seasons (2012, 2013) Evergreen Tours chartered Lüftner vessels for its cruises, usually the Amadeus Brilliant. Now it looks like as if Scenic is going to expand, using it's own vessels - owned by Riva Waterways.

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