Welcome to Mennonite Heritage Tours!

Mennonite Heritage Tours is a Dutch Mennonite travel organization, focusing on the Anabaptist and Mennonite heritage in Europe. Mennonite Heritage Tours offers small group traveling (4-9 persons) to Mennonites and anybody interested in the Mennonite and Anabaptist History. The tour groups are small, so there is plenty opportunity to customize the tour itinerary and visit places of special interest to you, e.g. places related to your forbears.

Visit your long-time-no-see-relatives or friends in Europe and enjoy a Tour about the rich Mennonite Heritage at the same trip.

Hotel Tours for Summer 2012

Tour 1.MERK Switzerland and Strasbourg, May 12 - 20, 2012. A Dutch spoken tour with focus on the Swiss Anabaptist heritage. Highlights of this tour are the cities of Bern, Zurich and Strasbourg. Also the hidden rural areas of the Jura, once places of refuge for the persecuted Anabaptists, will be visited. This is the only Dutch spoken tour on offer. All other tours are English spoken. read more....
Tour 2. Holland, North-Germany and Poland, June 23 - July 10, 2012. This tour follows the footsteps of the first Dutch Mennonites emigrating to North-Germany and Prussia/ Poland. Other main points of tourist interest will also be visited, like the inner city of Berlin, Concentration camp Auschwitz and the marvelous city of Krakow in Poland. read more....
Tour 3. Poland and Berlin, July 28 - August 9, 2012. Focus on the highlights of the Mennonite heritage in Poland alongside the Vistula river. Other features are Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the marvelous cities of Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin. read more....
Tour 4. Holland and Belgium, August 28 - September 7, 2012. This Tour gives you an overall knowledge of the Mennonite beginnings in Holland and Belgium with visits of Menno Simons' place of birth in Pingjum and his church in Witmarsum. Other features of this tour are the pond of Dirk Willems and we visit Dutch Mennonite congregations. Tour 4 and Tour 5 are easy to combine. read more....
Tour 5. South-Germany and Switzerland, September 11 - 21, 2012. Focus on the South-German and Swiss Anabaptist heritage, including Strasbourg in France. Highlights of this tour are the cities of Bern, Zurich and Strasbourg and a visit of the international patchwork exhibition in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. Also the hidden rural areas of the Jura, once places of refuge for the persecuted Anabaptists, will be visited. Tour 4 and Tour 5 are easy to combine. read more....
Tour 6. Poland and Berlin, October 6 - 18, 2012. Same itinerary as tour 3. read more....

Departure Point

Departure point of all Tours is Europe. This means that you have to book your own flight from the United States or Canada to Europe and back. And since you book your own flight you are free to extend your stay in Europe to visit long-time-no-see-relatives or cities you always wanted to explore!

The price of a return ticket from America or Canada to Europe costs about 750-1500 USdollar, depending on how far in advance you make your booking.

There are many websites to help you booking your flight through the internet (see below). But always check your Travel Agent as well. Sometimes they can offer you a flight at the same price or lower as the booking sites do.

Tour 2 has a different departure and finishing point, so you possibly need two different flights instead of one round trip. Booking websites offer this service by choosing 'multiple destinations' or 'multy city' instead of 'round trip'. If you think you could use any assistance to book your flight, please contact Ayold Fanoy at ue [tnup] sruotegatirehetinonnem [po] ofni. He would be happy to assist you.

Visas and Passports

US and Canadian citizens do not need visas to visit The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France or Switzerland, if you stay not longer then 90 days. Passports should be valid for at least another four months from the planned date of departure of these countries.

Hotels

During the tours we stay in middle class 3-star ranked hotels, by exception in a 2-star hotel, but with the same level of comfort. Always comfortable bedrooms with your own bath or shower.

The hotels are as much as possible located in the city centers or on walking distance of the city center. This gives you the opportunity to spend your evenings in some of the most beautiful and romantic cities of Europe.

Transportation

For our Tour transportation we use an airconditioned 9-person Minibus.