Rhine River Cruises
Suggest taking a cruise and most people will think of sailing the Atlantic, cruising the Greek islands, voyaging to Spain or the ultimate ambition of the Caribbean cruise.But long before motorway and rail networks or air travel the rivers of Europe were the arteries of the continent. Liquid freeways that facilitated commerce and travel for thousands of years. The Danube, the Don, the Volga, the Seine and even the Thames were alive with traffic.
No European river is as steeped in this heritage as the Rhine. luxury cruise on the Rhine with fairytale castles perched at intervals along the banks of the river.
Few river cruises can compete with the legends that surround the Rhine, such as the famous Lorelei Rock, or the Wagnerian epic of the Rhine Maidens and the Rhine Gold – the mysterious ring that Siegfried discovers pre-dating Tolkien by several decades.The romance and mystery fades a bit when the Rhine enters its lower reaches around the Rhur and the major ports of Holland, but even so the Rhine remains one of the most romantic and rewarding waterways in Europe for a river cruise to treasure.