Final-year school trip to Dresden and Prague: the Frauenkirche, Saxon Switzerland (Bastei), Prague Castle and the old town (6 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and arrival in Dresden

• Departure from your school very early in the morning, at the time agreed with you.
• Daytime drive via Cologne and Erfurt (about 700 to 850 km depending on your school, 8.5 to 10.5 hours excluding stops), with two drivers taking turns.
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Lunch at your own expense at a motorway service area.
• Arrival in Dresden in the evening, check-in at the accommodation for two nights and dinner.

Day 2: Dresden, Florence on the Elbe

• Visit to the Frauenkirche, destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt in 2005 (free admission outside services).
• Walk through the Zwinger and visit to the Old Masters Picture Gallery, with Raphael’s Sistine Madonna (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense, then the Semperoper, the Fürstenzug, a 102 m mural made of Meissen porcelain tiles, and the Brühl Terrace above the Elbe.
• Crossing the Elbe to the Neustadt, a young and colourful district, and its Kunsthofpassage.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 3: Saxon Switzerland and the road to Prague

• Rooms vacated after breakfast and drive to the Bastei (about 40 km, 45 min).
• Walk across the Bastei Bridge, among sandstone rocks rising nearly 200 m above the Elbe (free access).
• Visit to Königstein Fortress, one of the largest in Europe, perched on a rocky plateau (on request), and lunch at your own expense.
• Drive to Prague through the Elbe valley (about 120 km, 2 hours).
• Check-in at the accommodation for three nights and dinner.

Day 4: The old town and the Jewish quarter

• Walking tour of the old town: Old Town Square, the Týn Church and the astronomical clock on the town hall, whose apostles parade every hour.
• Discovery of the Josefov Jewish quarter and visit to its synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery with the Jewish Museum (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense, then walk to Wenceslas Square, the heart of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
• Visit to the Museum of Communism (on request).
• Dinner, then crossing of Charles Bridge lit up at night during the supervised evening.

Day 5: Prague Castle and Malá Strana

• Walk up to Prague Castle, one of the largest castle complexes in the world, and changing of the guard at noon.
• Visit to St Vitus Cathedral, the Old Royal Palace and Golden Lane (on request).
• Walk down the castle steps to the baroque Malá Strana district and lunch at your own expense.
• The John Lennon Wall and Kampa Island, at the foot of Charles Bridge.
• Dinner and last supervised evening.

Day 6: Return to Belgium

• Rooms vacated after breakfast and departure around 7 am.
• Daytime drive back to Belgium, with two drivers taking turns and regular stops.
• Lunch at your own expense during a stop on the way.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.