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World Heritage Trail Wachau with Charm

Wine and culture along the blue Danube

5 Days / 4 Nights
Walking
90  kg
CO₂-Emissions get compensated
Views during a hike

Gentle hills, blossoming apricot trees, the glittering Danube - can you see it in your mind's eye? It's easy to make this dream come true! Come with us on a hiking tour through the Wachau and actively experience the advantages of this infinitely beautiful region. One of the most wonderful landscapes in Austria awaits you on the 180km-long Wachau World Heritage Trail, as well as unique culinary delights and cultural highlights.

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The approximately 35km-long Wachau tour begins at its eastern end in Krems. Our 5-day short trip also starts here. In addition to numerous highlights, there are also 20 palaces and castles that represent a unique relic from the past on the World Heritage Trail. The Göttweig Monastery and the Dürnstein ruins, for example, are worth a visit.

Even on day 3, you are guaranteed not to be bored. You can expect top-class products such as Austria's largest apricot-growing region. The Wachau is full of lovely villages, including Spitz on the Danube. The small village serves as a hiking destination on day 4.

  • Idyllic vineyard hikes: The stone terraces and vines are characteristic of the Wachau. Let yourself drift through the fragrant vines and find yourself in the process.
  • Discover the Danube on mountain ranges: We have long raved about the beautiful valley. But the best way to see the blue stream is from above. There are plenty of opportunities for this along the World Heritage Trail, for example, on the 671m-high Seekopf or on the imposing ruins of Dürnstein.
  • Culinary highlights: Delicious food is at least as much a part of the Wachau as the Danube. Already know? The Wachau apricot is of the highest quality and that is why its name is a protected designation of origin. Whether pancakes, dumplings or jam, the aroma of the small, orange fruit is simply a highlight.
  • Dreamy wine villages: The wines of the Wachau are divided into three quality categories: Steinfeder, Federspiel and Smaragd. On your way visit the characteristic wine cellars of the region and taste the fine wines. Incidentally, the tour includes a wine tasting - in this sense: cheers!

This trip is ideal for leisure hikers, as, in addition to the wonderful views, numerous wine taverns invite you to stop for a break. The hills in this area are not very high, but there are challenging sections. As an alternative, these can usually be replaced by more leisurely routes. An additional highlight awaits visitors in spring: the apricot blossom. The Eurohike package includes a boat trip from Spitz to Krems.

On our ‘Hiking Tours with Charm’ you can enjoy the full service of our individual active holidays while staying in very special accommodation with that extra something in the best location. That means you can look forward to luxury furnishings and decor in the local style, as well as cuisine at the highest level. Many of our hotels with charm also offer large pools and a wellness area where you can relax after a lovely day of hiking.

Sprintime in Wachau
Hiking stop
Hiking snack

Itinerary at a glance

In addition to the landscape characterized by wine and apricot cultivation, the Wachau awaits guests with picturesque villages, such as Spitz, and cultural sites, such as the monastery of Göttweig. As a reward, there are apricot dumplings and fine wines!
Day
01
Arrival in Krems

Walk up into the vineyards to the tower with view on blue Danube, the city Krems and impressing monastery Göttweig. Cross the hills to the cozy Fesslhütte and reach the Dürnstein ruins on a trail with great views before reaching the banks of the Danube.

Take the ferry from Dürnstein to Rossatz. Continue past the largest apricot growing area of Austria, on old tracks up to Seekopf with stunning views to the Alps. Optional take a walk along Danube through orchards to the ferry.

Leave Weißenkirchen via the wine trail, past picturesque wine cellars to the climb up to Seiber. Walk through the forest at first quite steep to Buschandlwand where an observation platform allows stunning panorama views. An alternative route passes through vineyards to the famous wine grower community Spitz an der Donau.

Return journey from Spitz to Krems by boat, departure in the early morning or in the late afternoon, included in the price.

Itinerary at a glance

In addition to the landscape characterized by wine and apricot cultivation, the Wachau awaits guests with picturesque villages, such as Spitz, and cultural sites, such as the monastery of Göttweig. As a reward, there are apricot dumplings and fine wines!
Day
01
Arrival in Krems

Walk up into the vineyards to the tower with view on blue Danube, the city Krems and impressing monastery Göttweig. Cross the hills to the cozy Fesslhütte and reach the Dürnstein ruins on a trail with great views before reaching the banks of the Danube.

Take the ferry from Dürnstein to Rossatz. Continue past the largest apricot growing area of Austria, on old tracks up to Seekopf with stunning views to the Alps. Optional take a walk along Danube through orchards to the ferry.

The wine trail leads you out of Weißenkirchen, past small cellar alleys and up into the unique wine landscape high above the Danube. On the World Heritage Trail, you hike through the heart of the Wachau. At the landmark of Spitz, the “Red Gate”, you descend into the famous wine village beside the Danube.

Return journey from Spitz to Krems by boat, departure in the early morning or in the late afternoon, included in the price.

Other variations of this tour

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Vineyards
Peach tree by the wayside
Above the rooftops
View of Spitz
Melk Monastery
Spitz in Wachau

Difficulty level

Walking

You walk mainly on good trails and some paved vineyard paths. Depending on the route, you can make the stages more comfortable or more challenging. The peaks in the Wachau region are not high, but steep in places. Surefootedness therefore is required in some places. This week offers a perfect blend of nature, culture and culinary delight.

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Prices per person in EUR

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Offsetting your carbon footprint

90 kg
CO₂-Emissions get compensated
The total value of all emissions per travel and per person is carefully tracked using the CO2 calculator 'Carmacal,' which was specifically developed for tour operators. The individual components that make up this value are shown in the diagram. The overall impact is contributed to by accommodations, luggage transport, on-site catering, and activities, and it is fully offset through our climate protection projects.
Accommodation (73%)
Meals (22%)
Transport (4%)
100%

Services & Information

Further details about this tour

Included

  • Accomodation in hotels with charm
  • Breakfast
  • Luggage transfer
  • 1 Boat trip from Spitz to Krems*
  • 1 Wine tasting (German, English)

  • Carefully elaborated route description
  • Detailed travel documents 1x per room (German, English, French)
  • App for Navigation and GPS-data
  • Service hotline

* Boat trip only possible starting from mid-April, bus ride as an alternative

Arrival / Parking / Departure

  • Arrival by train from Vienna to Krems and a few minutes walk to the starting hotel.
  • Vienna airport.
  • Parking: limited number of free hotel parking spaces, no pre-booking possible. Partly chargeable hotel parking spaces approx. EUR 40 per week. Sufficient public parking spaces near the hotels for approx. EUR 50 per week, no pre-booking.

Things to note

  • Tourist tax, if due, is not included in the price
  • 2x ferry trips Danube, approx. EUR 6 per person
  • Further important information according to the package travel law can be found here!

Join us in achieving greater sustainability by choosing our digital route book, rather than the printed version. As a small thank you we will give you a discount of €20 per room.

Services & Information

Further details about this tour

Included

  • Accomodation in hotels with charm
  • Breakfast
  • Luggage transfer
  • 1 Boat trip from Spitz to Krems*
  • 1 Wine tasting (German, English)

  • Carefully elaborated route description
  • Detailed travel documents 1x per room (German, English, French)
  • App for Navigation and GPS-data
  • Service hotline

* Boat trip only possible starting from mid-April, bus ride as an alternative

Arrival / Parking / Departure

  • Train journey from Vienna to Krems and a few minutes walk to the starting hotel.
  • Vienna airport.
  • Parking: Hotel parking garage, approx. EUR 6 to EUR 16 per week. Public parking spaces, approx. EUR 6 per day.

Things to note

  • Tourist tax, if due, is not included in the price
  • 2x ferry trips Danube, approx. EUR 10 per person
  • Further important information according to the package travel law can be found here!

Join us in achieving greater sustainability by choosing our digital route book, rather than the printed version. As a small thank you we will give you a discount of €20 per room.

Our hotels

Relax in our charming accommodations along your walking tour

From our hiking blog

Vineyard in the Wachau
Team Members on Tour
Travel story: In the vineyards above the Danube
In the last two years, I have explored beautiful Italy on two walking holidays: plesaure walking in Piedmont and on the east coast of Sardinia. After these walking holidays in Italy, this year's holiday is in my home territory, along the beautiful Wachau World Heritage Trail. With my sister, I drive along the “Romantic Road” on the northern bank of the Danube to Krems, the starting point of our walking holiday "World Heritage Trail Wachau, Krems - Spitz". Now, there will be three walking days along the Danube and right through the vineyards to Spitz. Alternatively, this tour is also offered as a longer variant over eight days, up to Melk. We are really looking forward to the next few days and raise a toast at our first dinner in Krems’ old town with homemade Austrian apricot iced tea. (Fun fact: in Austria, we call apricots “Marillen”, but in Germany, they are known as “Aprikose”!)
Hikers on the World Heritage Trail
Team Members on Tour
Helene en route along the World Heritage Trail Wachau
Vineyards, apricot orchards and cultural assets of all kinds characterise the World Heritage Region Wachau. Considering all of this it was an easy choice for a suitable hiking holiday. Our holiday along the World Heritage Trail Wachau started in the town of Krems and led us all the way to Spitz on the river Danube. As a crowning finale this hiking holiday contains a boat trip from Spitz back to Krems, taking you past the places of the Wachau, which you got to know and love during your hiking holiday.
Hiker with a view of the Danube
Autumnal Hiking in the Wachau
It wasn’t merely the golden October colours, the pleasant walking temperatures or the newly harvested wine that lured me to come walking in the Autumnal Wachau. It was mainly the newly signposted route along the World Heritage Trail here! Some of the best signposted footpaths on both sides of the Danube were simply waiting to be explored. Every variant of the walk, every panoramic viewpoint, every summit and every view view tower was needing to be discovered, checked and hiked to. That meant that I wasn’t leisurely walking one stage at a time but was trekking from dawn til dusk and upstream as well as downstream. The sheer diversity in this region meant that I never got tired. Sometimes I was going along panoramic paths through vineyards via cosy forest tracks and other times up steep ascents where at the top great views were awaiting me… I could even climb some small peaks here.
Verena Winkler

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