The Lech Heights Trail 2008This tour is not described in our brochure | ||
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This tour follows the valley of the River Lech and so involves little climbing.
You can spend either seven days walking the full distance from Augsburg to
Füssen, or just five days, starting from Landsberg am Lech. However, the stretch from Schongau to Lechbruck is quite long, but if notified in adavance, a transfer can be arranged, cutting out the first four miles of this stage. On the final day, you can undertake the last 5 miles or so by boat on the lake if you prefer. |
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Day 1. Arrive in Augsburg. Day 2. Following a brief tour of the old city centre on foot, your route follows the bank of the River Lech upstream to the "Zollhaus", once a customs post, now an attractive woodland restaurant by the river (about 10 miles). From here you are transferred to your hotel in Landsberg. Day 3. From Landsberg transfer back to the "Zollhaus". From here your route continues along the river via Kaufering to Landsberg (about 11 miles). Day 4. From Landsberg past a nature reserve, the "Devil's Kitchen" and a viewpoint over the river, then past Celtic ramparts to Mundraching. Continue to Hohenwart. You will either spend the night here, or be transferred back to the hotel in Landsberg (about 13 miles). Day 5. If necessary, transfer from Landsberg to Hohenwart, from where you first walk to the "Balcony of Upper Bavaria" (a magnificent viewpoint), then on to Epfach, once the Roman settlement of Abodiacum, where there is an interesting museum. Next to Kinsau, following the river valley past Celtic-Roman remains, across water meadows and through woodland to the fine old town of Schongau (about 12 miles). Day 6. If required, transfer from Schongau to Burggen. Otherwise, follow the river to the Litzauer Schleife, a dramatic bend in the river to Burggen. From here the way leads you across meadows, through forests, across marshland and along the Upper Lechsee lake to Lechbruck (about 18 miles from Schongau, 18 miles from Burggen). Day 7. First walk to Prem, where you join the King Ludwig Way from Steingaden, then through watermeadows. Follow the Halblech brook to end in Buching (about 14 miles). Day 8. From Buching walk to Berghof, then to Greith. From here on there are fine views of the alps. The way leads to the shore of the Forgensee Lake. Finally to Füssen, either via the King Ludwig Way and Neuschwanstein, or along the lake shore, or even by boat on the lake (about 13 miles). |
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