SHORT ON TIME, BUT LONG ‘OLE BUCKET LIST?

European Horizons is about checking off the big-ticket items of Amsterdam, Munich, Venice, and Paris AND the experiences you didn’t even realize were Bucket-list-worthy.

This trip will see you doing all the things that Europe is known for; learning about history and culture, eating up big in Italy, tasting beer in Germany and chocolate in the Swiss Alps, but it’s going to show you things you don’t even know will be your lasting travel memories yet; like seeing surfers in the unlikely city of Munich.

Here’s a list of 15 experiences that filled up our European bucket-lists here at Contiki, and hopefully will inspire yours:

SMILE UP AT

the chalky White Cliffs of Dover

CRUISE THROUGH

lush Belgian countryside

STROLL DOWN

Amsterdam’s quaint canals with a coffee

BE INSPIRED

by the locals’ Scandi-cool, effortless style, Amsterdam

SNAP PICS OF

the most bicycles you’ve ever seen in one place, Amsterdam

SEE FAIRYTALE

castles nestled in the impossibly green Rhine Valley

BE SURPRISED

at how much you enjoy learning how a real beer stein is made, Germany

TASTE A LOCAL

drop from the Rhine Valley vineyards

CYCLE THROUGH

the lush Englischer Garten of Munich

MUNCH ON A

pretzel the size of your head

WATCH SURFERS

attempt to stay upright on a river in Munich

PRETEND YOU’RE

Maria in the Sound of Music as you run through the fields of the Swiss Alps

SPEND THE NIGHT

in a (super cool, Contiki owned) Austrian Gasthof

PARAGLIDE BACK

down to earth from Austrian Alps

FEEL THE ADRENALINE

rush white water rafting through Austrian rapids