"Must see" German cities near Maastricht, Holland?

My daughter will be taking part in a 4 month %26quot;Study Abroad%26quot; program (sponsored by local USA university) starting Feb. 2007.

She will be in Maastricht, Holland (Southern part). By rail, from Maastricht, Paris is only 3 hrs ---Amsterdam, 2 1/2 hrs. ---Could anyone, please, recommend any %26quot;must see%26quot; German cities (large or small) within 4 hours rail travel from Maastricht. At this point, we do not know how much time my daughter will have for traveling/seeing other European cities--- so, a trip that takes 4 hrs or less (one-way) seems quite reasonable. Cities less than 4 hrs away are our primary focus; however, if you feel that there are %26quot;must see%26quot; cities that are more than 4 hrs., by rail, please mention them. Any help would be appreciated. Jaes.

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First there is the EUREGIO

avv.de/web/…ticket-bereich.pdf

www.avv.de/web/download/netz/emr-netzplan.pdf

www.avv.de/web/hauptdrei/euregioticket.php…

More information is %26quot;only%26quot; available in German, Dutch and French.

in the German part of EUREGIO

Aachen in first place

http://www.aachen.de/EN/index.html

Monschau is a really nice small town

http://www.monschau.de/tourist-information/

Other destinations in the state of Norh-Rhine Westphalia. This German federal state is nearly exactly as big in area and population size as the Netherlands.

http://www.nrw-tourism.com/

e.g. Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf

There are day tickets covering all local public transport in NRW called SchönerTagTicket NRW (HappyDayTicket NRW).

SchönerTagTicket NRW Single (1 person) EUR 22,00

SchönerTagTicket NRW (2-5 persons) EUR 29,50

railroad map NRW

www.nahverkehr.nrw.de/oelcms/ocx2.exe?GF=138

Also in reach the northern parts of the state Rhineland-Palatinate

e.g. Trier (the oldest city in Germany and in Roman times the biggest city norht of the Alps)

http://www.trier.de

other sights in the Mosel valley like

bernkastel.de/e/…index.htm

http://www.burg-eltz.de

http://www.welterbe-mittelrheintal.de/

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%26quot;abalada,%26quot; thank you so very much for all the time and work you put into your helpful reply. You certainly gave us a lot of good information to work with. Thanks again, --Jaes.

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