Spend a day with the typical Swiss assets: Cheese & chocolate. Travel with your private tourguide – just you and your guide – to Engelberg and visit Switzerland’s only cheese factory within a Monastery. The modern achitecture of the cheese factory accents the historical setting in a breathtaking manner. Create cheese under instruction and get information about the process from a professional. Enjoy cheese specialities  for lunch while you the cheese maker at work producing cheese specialities as the famous “Engelberger Klosterglocke”. On the afternoon, transfer to the industrial area of Root, outside Luzern city center. With your private tourguide you visit the chocolate factory “Aeschbacher”, where you get an insight view to the fine art of chocolate. Taste chocolate during the entire exhibition and finalize your day with creating your own chocolate bar.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Cheese Factory at Engelberg, Klosterhof 1, Engelberg 6390 Switzerland

You will meet your tourguide in the lobby of your hotel. Together you will make your way to the train station in Luzern. With the “Luzern-Engelberg-Express”, a local train, you will pass a lovely scenery and arrive after 40 minutes in Engelberg. A short walk of 10 minutes to the monastery will take place. At the cheesfactory, you have the chance to get more information about Switzerland’s only cheese factory in a monastery. You will get an introduction to make cheese on the live stage. You will take a seat in the bistro afterwards, try the cheese and from where you have the cheese maker in sight. You will enjoy meanwhile your lunch. 

After your lunch, your tourguide will lead you back to the train station in Engelberg and your journey will continue first back to Lucerne, then on another local train within 15 minutes to the industrial area of Root. Just footsteps from the trainstation, the chocolate factory “Aeschbach” will await you. Together with your tourguide you will enter the exhibition, where you will make the experience about the fine art of chocolate production. Different information points will give you an overview and on various places you can see the live production in the company. During all the exhibition you’ll keep your eyes open for hidden chocaolate, that you can taste. At the end of the exhibition, your tourguide will take you to the place, where you can create your own chocolate bar. You will decorate your chocolate with different ingredients. Once, the chocolate cooled down, the tour at the chocolate factory ends and your tourguide will lead you back to Luzern. The tour ends at the train station in Luzern or back in your hotel. 

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Aeschbach Chocolatier, Chocodromo 1 Hochschwerzlen, Root 6037 Switzerland

You will meet your tourguide in the lobby of your hotel. Together you will make your way to the train station in Luzern. With the “Luzern-Engelberg-Express”, a local train, you will pass a lovely scenery and arrive after 40 minutes in Engelberg. A short walk of 10 minutes to the monastery will take place. At the cheesfactory, you have the chance to get more information about Switzerland’s only cheese factory in a monastery. You will get an introduction to make cheese on the live stage. You will take a seat in the bistro afterwards, try the cheese and from where you have the cheese maker in sight. You will enjoy meanwhile your lunch. 

After your lunch, your tourguide will lead you back to the train station in Engelberg and your journey will continue first back to Lucerne, then on another local train within 15 minutes to the industrial area of Root. Just footsteps from the trainstation, the chocolate factory “Aeschbach” will await you. Together with your tourguide you will enter the exhibition, where you will make the experience about the fine art of chocolate production. Different information points will give you an overview and on various places you can see the live production in the company. During all the exhibition you’ll keep your eyes open for hidden chocaolate, that you can taste. At the end of the exhibition, your tourguide will take you to the place, where you can create your own chocolate bar. You will decorate your chocolate with different ingredients. Once, the chocolate cooled down, the tour at the chocolate factory ends and your tourguide will lead you back to Luzern. The tour ends at the train station in Luzern or back in your hotel. 

Duration: 2 hours

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