…because the good is so close. True words. You don’t have to travel far away by plane or cruise ship if you want to experience something on vacation. Less than an hour’s drive south of Munich, Lake Tegernsee is a picture-book idyll in Upper Bavaria. This is where the travel professionals from Feuer und Eis Touristik live and work. And offer lots of exciting hiking tours from and around their Tegernsee.
The Feuer und Eis travel agency is located where others go on vacation — on the southern shore of Lake Tegernsee. If you look south from the modern, two-storey office building in Rottach-Egern, you can directly see the Wallberg with its famous little church. The Sareiters live and work here on Lake Tegernsee. In 1933, Sebald Sareiter chauffeured vacationers from Lake Tegernsee to Venice. Today, his grandson Wolfgang and his team take more than 10,000 hikers over all the mountains every summer. This makes Feuer und Eis Touristik the market leader when it comes to Alpine crossings for hikers. So if you live on Lake Tegernsee, you automatically look south. Just like the Sareiters. So it’s a perfect opportunity to start a crossing of the Alps right on your doorstep. Which is what the travel pros from Tegernsee did: In 2018, they invented their own crossing of the Alps from Tegernsee to Kitzbühel, into the Dolomites and on to Venice. Its name: On the pulse of the Alps. Every summer, many hikers follow this classic route from Tegernsee to the south. Lake Tegernsee is not only a great starting point for crossing the Alps, but also a base for star-shaped day tours. Vacationing where others work.
At the pulse of the Alps: from Tegernsee to Kitzbühel. And straight on to the Three Peaks
The best way to feel the pulse of the Alps is to go hiking. However, Am Puls der Alpen is not just one crossing of the Alps, but three in a row: in the first week you hike from Tegernsee to Kitzbühel, then from Kitz to the Three Peaks. And in week three, we travel from the Dolomites to the lagoon city of Venice. Common to all parts of the trilogy: perfect organization and all-round carefree packages including luggage transfer from hotel to hotel and a comfortable return journey. But let’s get back to the start: Most of the cyclists who cross the Alps naturally start on the shores of Lake Tegernsee, only to stroll through the chic pedestrian zone of Kitzbühel a week later. In between, many scenic and cultural highlights await, such as Kufstein, the pearl on the Inn, the Bergdoktorhaus on the Wilder Kaiser and the famous Streif high above the chamois town of Kitzbühel. The six stages between Tegernsee and Kitzbühel offer hikers between 11 and 23 kilometers a day. And in Kitzbühel at the very latest, you can feel it very clearly, the pulse of the Alps. So what could be more obvious than tackling the second stage from Kitzbühel to the Three Peaks next summer?
The Feuer und Eis travel agency is located where others go on vacation — on the southern shore of Lake Tegernsee. If you look south from the modern, two-storey office building in Rottach-Egern, you can directly see the Wallberg with its famous little church. The Sareiters live and work here on Lake Tegernsee. In 1933, Sebald Sareiter chauffeured vacationers from Lake Tegernsee to Venice. Today, his grandson Wolfgang and his team take more than 10,000 hikers over all the mountains every summer. This makes Feuer und Eis Touristik the market leader when it comes to Alpine crossings for hikers. So if you live on Lake Tegernsee, you automatically look south. Just like the Sareiters. So it’s a perfect opportunity to start a crossing of the Alps right on your doorstep. Which is what the travel pros from Tegernsee did: In 2018, they invented their own crossing of the Alps from Tegernsee to Kitzbühel, into the Dolomites and on to Venice. Its name: On the pulse of the Alps. Every summer, many hikers follow this classic route from Tegernsee to the south. Lake Tegernsee is not only a great starting point for crossing the Alps, but also a base for star-shaped day tours. Vacationing where others work.
Very charming: the luxury option from Tegernsee to Sterzing
Over 40,000 successful Alpine crossers are certain: this is the most beautiful long-distance hike in the Northern Alps. So many Feuer und Eis customers have already hiked the route from Tegernsee via Achensee, Fügen, Mayrhofen, Schlegeis and Pfitscherjoch to Sterzing in South Tyrol since 2015. This makes the seven-stage tour the most popular. And the most flexible one at that. Whether with or without luggage transfer, individually or as a group tour or as a charm variant — at Tegernsee-Sterzing, every hiker gets exactly what they need. Speaking of the charm version: in the luxury version of the bestseller, you stay overnight in four-star and four-star superior hotels after your (hiking) work is done, including daily luggage transport from hotel to hotel. In addition, all transfers such as the Achensee cable car, Spieljoch cable car ride, transfer to the Schlegeis reservoir and the comfortable return transfer from Sterzing to Tegernsee are included in the price. Extra treat for connoisseurs: additional nights before the start of the tour at Lake Tegernsee or after the end of the tour in Sterzing can be booked flexibly. Feuer und Eis therefore takes care of a hiking experience of the highest quality. You only have to hike yourself. In other words, a real Tegernsee charm offensive
From Tegernsee in all directions: the white-blue star hike
If you like hiking but don’t want to check into a different hotel every evening, a hike with a fixed location is just the thing for you. In this case, the star hike around Lake Tegernsee. Starting from the three-star Hotel Bellevue directly on the lakeside promenade in Bad Wiessee, there are six day tours, all of which end back at the hotel. You know what you have. On the second day after arrival, a short seven-kilometre walk awaits — from Gmund via the Tegernseer Höhenweg to Tegernsee. Day two is more demanding: after the morning transfer to the Sutten area, you climb the Risserkogel. The next day, we head via the Aueralm to the Fockenstein, one of the most beautiful viewing peaks on Lake Tegernsee. After the leisurely hike from Schliersee to Tegernsee on the fourth day of the tour, the Riederstein with its famous chapel clinging to the vertical rock face beckons on day five. On the last day of the tour, you finally hike via Spitzingsee, Rosskopf and Sutten before arriving at the cozy Hotel Bellevue for the last time — and celebrating the successful Tegernsee star tour with a glass of fine wine. Why not add another night?
Five lakes in one go, or: the great lake addiction in the heart of Upper Bavaria
Lined up like a string of crystal-clear pearls in the middle of the mountains of Upper Bavaria: Tegernsee, Schliersee, Spitzingsee, Achensee and Sylvensteinsee. With the exception of the latter, they are all remnants of the last great glacial melt. The next ice age is probably yet to come. What remains are the lakes, which are great for walking around. The best thing to do is to combine all the lakes into a magnificent long-distance hike. It starts, of course, at Feuer und Eis’s home lake, Lake Tegernsee. A variant of the Prinzenweg takes you over to Schliersee with its Wasmeier Museum. On the second day of the tour, the small but extremely photogenic Spitzingsee awaits. On day three, you reach Lake Tegernsee again via Suttenstein and Stümpfling. Now you turn south — and discover Lake Achensee, the Tyrolean fjord. On the fifth day of the tour, you dive deep into the Karwendel Alpine Park and discover the magnificent Sylvensteinsee lake. The next day along the Isar to Lenggries. On the seventh and last day of the tour, you finally reach the starting point of Tegernsee again (with bus assistance). After a week, this lake-seeking hiking tour ends here.