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Dachau and Dachau Concentration camp Munich
22 Reviews Being a history major, I had been interested in seeing things from the other side. I met up on the bus to the site with a tour guide who was in training and they were trying to gather people for a...
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Schloss Neuschwanstein Munich
16 Reviews Schloss Neuschwanstein is one of the most beautiful 2nd set of seven wonders of the world. King Ludwig spent the Bavarian empire into bankruptcy to build this and other castles in the proximity area....
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Locations in the Alps Munich
25 Reviews About a 2 hour drive south of Munich, in the heart of the Bavarian Alps, is the village of Ettal. The primary attraction is the monastery. While this monastery also brews beer and its famous...
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Starnberger See - Lake Starnberg Munich
10 Reviews On a snowy afternoon we went to Starnberger See (Lake Starnberg) for a walk at the lake. I had read about the memorial cross for King Ludwig II in my guidebook and wanted to see it because it looked...
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Public baths Munich
4 Reviews Almost in front of Deutsches Museum there is a juwel to be discovered by turist. Whoever has been in Budapest will remember the wonderful public baths in there: Such one is Müllersche Volksbad. The...
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Oberammergau Munich
8 Reviews This quaint little village gets more than its share of tourists during the year. Most of the buildings are decoratively painted with murals on the outside walls. They are of scenes and alpine look....
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Englischer Garten Munich
15 Reviews The Japanese Tea House in the Englischer Garden is a real off the beaten track find. We were wandering around after our stop at the beer garden and pretty much stumbled upon it. Upon reading the sign,...
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Schloss Nymphenburg Munich
10 Reviews Hardly even off the beaten path, the Nymphenburg Palace is just a quick Tram ride away (tram 17 or bus 41). It was once the summer home of the Wittelsbach family and was built in several individual...
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Tegernsee Munich
5 Reviews Tegernsee is a fascinating small city bordering the beautiful clear lake of the same name. There are many traditional shops, cafes, etc. alongside the lakefront pedestrian promenade. The nicely...
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Olympic Park Munich
8 Reviews On 5 September 1972, 11 Israeli athletes competing in the XX Olympiad in Munich and a German Police Officer were killed by terrorists. The memorial is very probably walked past by many visitors to...
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Füssen Munich
5 Reviews King of Bavaria, Ludwig II., grew up in Hohenschwangau castle and when he was king he decided to rebuilt the castle next to it. As he loved the old times he wanted the castle to look like a knights'...
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ZAM Zentrum für aussergewoehnliche Museen Munich
4 Reviews In Westenrieder Strasse ( it is a small street beginning on Viktualienmarkt and leading to Isartor ) you may visit a museum that includes many small, but interesting museums, like...
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Südfriedhof Munich
10 Reviews Another quiet place is the Suedfriedhof - an old cemetery close to the center only a 15-minute walk from Marienplatz or 2 minutes from Sendlinger Tor. Here you will find Munich's celebreties of the...
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Königssee Munich
3 Reviews One hour south of Munich, near the Austrian border, is Königssee (King's Lake). Like a norwegian fjord the lake stretches over 8 km below the mighty Watzmann (2713 m). You can visit the chapel of St....
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Bavaria Film Studios Munich
2 Reviews Bavaria Film Studio, this was a tour (combined with a city tour) and it takes you around the studios in Geiselgasteig.This was where films such as 'The Boat' (Das Boot), 'The Neverending Story' and...
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Oktoberfest Munich
3 Reviews The Munich OKTOBERFEST has become a renowed festival that promotes the best Bavarian food, entertainment and beer ! It's one of the biggest public festival in the world and will be held in 2003 for...
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Well, I will show you here some of the bavarian lakes I visited. there are of course much more, so there is unitl now only a choice of some more off the beaten path lakes.Walchensee and the village with the same name. The well known mountain there is Herzogstand. In summer time, people are surfing on the lake!
St.Koloman is a famous pilgrim-church , close to Schloss Neuschwanstein.You will pass by it, when coming from Munich, and the church will be at the crossing, where you leave the main road for Schwangau.Thre church is open for the public only in the afternoon, this is why I have not seen it from inside, unfortunately.
This is maybe the most beautiful fassade of Füssen. You will find it in the pedestrian area.The design of the 17th century follows similar fassades in Italy and gives you the feeling to see real stones and structures - but in fact the walls are completely flat.The building was always used as a pharmacy and has also a great wooden furniture inside !
The Maurish Pavillion is another lovely sight in the back of the park of Linderhof castle.It looks quite unusual between the high mountains of Bavaria.You may not walk inside, but have a look through the glass-door and see the great interior with a beautiful throne.The building was made for a world-exhibition, sold to another millionaire first, and finally rebuilt for the king.
Hundinghütte is one of the many places inside the big castle park of Linderhof, that King Ludwig II had built simply in order to be able to have the perfect surrounding for performances of Parsifal or other works by Richard Wagner.Whenever the king had the idea, he wanted to see such a performance, the servants had to get there, make sure, all the snow was taken away before the king arrived, flowers were planted into the frozen soil in march for just a few hours, the orchestra would go there and everything was ready, when the king came...Well maybe you understand a bit , why he is called " mad " king Ludwig...For tourists it certainly makes sense to walk these 30 minutes to the very back of the park, even if nobody had planted fresh flowers for you...
Alatsee is a rather small alpine lake, about 7 Km west of Füssen - my picture shows almost half of it.The water on the top is crystall clear and a tiny river is flowing through it .In a depth of about 10 meters the water gets a different density and you will find plenty of old trunks of trees and leaves there.Below these trees you cannot see anything in the water, but the lake has a depth of several hundred meter at certain places.I was working in the hotel there in 1990, and at that time Prof. Fricke came with his submarine to search for relicts of WW II and Nazi-treasures.All he found was lots of fake British Pounds, printed by the Nazis and finally thrown into the lake at the end of the war.There are some more infos about that lake and its history on the web-page below.
If you are in Munchen or somewhere else in Bavaria last week of september or first week of October don't miss to visit the "October fest" (world famous bier festival) in Munchen. You can have great fun in tents drinking bier (but you must pay 7E for a big glass) or you can have a great time around the tents in a huge amusement park. One advice: try to go on working days because it's little less people than on weekends.
Murnau is a convenient stop between Munich and Garmish and a popular destination in its own right, being near the Staffelsee, a recreational lake. It is home to a Bavarian school of painters and also the Karg Brewery that makes some of the best weissbiers in all of Bavaria.
I had high hopes for Pottenstein. I had read it was THE place for Franconian dunkles beers, having three of the very best. On my first trip there in 1997, I found them all intact, though perhaps in a slightly different form. This time I went to check out the hiking scene in the neighboring mountains and found them just okay. Two of the dunklesbeers have gone by the wayside since then, but Mager still brews a tasty one and has great food to boot. Pottenstein is a place for beginning hikers or perhaps pensioners looking for easy grade walks, and some nice beer of course. ;)
Schederndorf is another small farming village with an old world brewpub, one that the Will family has run since 1742. It's a bustling pub that was just jam packed the day we waltzed in and I was happy to see them still dispensing their beer from small kegs sitting atop he bar, just like in the old days. They also have their own slaugtherhouse and schnapps distillery. Brauereigasthof Will is at Haus 19 in the small village and not hard to find. Get a good map to find the village!
Kempinski Hotel Airport Munchen Munich
7 Reviews and 482 Opinions I stayed here one night when my flight was cancelled due to technical reasons. This hotel is a high...
Sheraton Hotel Carlton Nürnberg
2 Reviews and 134 Opinions Not far from the station, outside the city walls, at first sight, this hotel may seems a bit remote....
Hotel Eisenhut Rothenburg ob der Tauber
4 Reviews and 117 Opinions In 1950, my dad took pictures of this hotel sign. I don't remember whether we stayed there or not -...
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