Central European Charm: Vienna to Berlin
Vienna's imperial grandeur leads into a fairy-tale Bohemian town, then Prague's spires and Berlin's restless modern energy — a route that moves from empire to countryside to capital, ending somewhere entirely different from where it began.
The route
Vienna → Český Krumlov → Prague → Berlin
The journey
🇦🇹 Vienna
Austria · Day 1–3 · 3 nights
The route opens in imperial splendor — palaces, coffeehouses, and a city built for walking slowly between them — before the trip turns north into the Bohemian countryside.
- Wiener Secession
- Heldenplatz
🇨🇿 Český Krumlov
Czechia · Day 4–5 · 2 nights
A short drive to a small town wrapped in a bend of the Vltava, dominated by a castle on the hill above it — the route's own deliberate pause, small and slow after Vienna's scale, before Prague's return to city energy.
- Egon Schiele Centrum Museum
🇨🇿 Prague
Czechia · Day 6–10 · 5 nights
North to a city whose old town survived the 20th century almost untouched — spires, bridges, and a longer stay than anywhere else on this trip, because Prague rewards the kind of unhurried wandering a shorter visit can't give it.
- St. Vitus Cathedral
- Vyšehrad
🇩🇪 Berlin
Germany · Day 11–14 · 4 nights
The route closes somewhere else entirely — a modern, unpolished capital still visibly shaped by its own recent history, a real contrast to three stops of older Central European charm.
- Brandenburg Gate
- Reichstagsgebäude
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