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.

Update: Scenic renamed Riva Waterways to Emerald, more details on their ships and itineraries have been published.

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.

The Rhine Gorge

The Rhine Gorge is a stretch of the Upper Rhine Valley from Bingen down to Koblenz. It starts about 25 kilometers downstream of the Main confluence (which is at Mainz) and ends a bit upstream of the "Deutsches Eck" (German Corner), where the Moselle meets the Rhine.

I was asked on the cruise critic forum if there would be any option to include a tracker for delayed ships. Let me just post the question from last week: