My first solo trip to Europe. I covered Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic.

My first solo trip to Europe.

I travelled around Europe for 21 days.

Listing down my itinerary below.

Switzerland May 2nd to May 11th

May 2nd-May 4th

Geneva

May 4th to May 8th

Interlaken ost

May 8th to May 9th

Zermatt

May 9th May 10th

St.Moritz

May 10th to May 11th

Zurich

Most of dates are overlapping because I took the earliest trains to the locations mentioned which were pretty close apart from a few.

May 11th

Zurich to Lichtenstein, A very small country, explored it in about 6 hours including all the major tourist attractions.

Traveled to Salzburg, Austria late in the evening.

May 12th

Salzburg, Austria

May 13th

Salzburg to Bratislava, Slovakia. Explored the city till late evening including major tourist attractions and came back to Vienna, Austria late in the night.

May 14th to 17th

Vienna, Austria

May 17th to May 18th

Budapest, Hungary

May 19th to May 23rd

Prague, Czech Republic

My flight back home was in the evening of May 23rd from Prague.

Switzerland is an amazing place and I’ll definitely visit it again. The cities can be skipped in Switzerland as they are quite small and not much to see I’d recommend staying few more days in Interlaken and taking trains to wherever you want to go. Try to shop for groceries in COOP or Aldi or LIDL or get yourself microwavable food, this alone will save you loads of money since eating out is expensive. I got myself a swiss pass which is highly recommend if you are traveling all over Switzerland if not at least get the half fare card and purchase tickets from the SBB app. Lichtenstein is a very small country and you can explore it within a day, you can plan it as day trip from Zurich. In Austria, I explored Salzburg and Vienna. Realistically you only need one full day to explore Salzburg and maybe you can do a day trip to nearby Hallstatt which is more picturesque. I only stayed 3 full days in Vienna and i’d say if you are into history you definitely need more than that, I only explored two museums and important palaces but there are so many more places to explore but as a tourist you’d do fine with 3-4 days if you wanna hit major tourist spots. You can stay an extra day in Vienna and do a day trip to Bratislava, Slovakia which is what I did and this is another place where you need one whole day to explore. In Hungary I’ve only been to Budapest and stayed there for 3 days and it was really good, the city was nice and compact and you can split days between Buda side and pest side and on the third day you can check out the thermal baths. I’d say Prague, Czech Republic is also similar you can split days between either sides of the Vltava river, 3 full days is enough time to explore the city, I’d extend it more if you are into partying and want to explore nightlife since I heard it’s the best but I’m not into partying so haven’t really explored that side of it. There are places outside of Prague in Czech Republic you can visit which were recommended by other travelers like Brno and Cesky krumlov but I couldn't explore. I recommend getting transport passes for all the countries they cover metro, tram and buses. Depending on how long you’re staying there are many variations of passes which are available and you’d actually save a lot of money this way instead of buying individual tickets.