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The Loreley: a lot of fuss about a rock
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  • globetrott
  • Updated By globetrott on April 7, 2007
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  • looking down from Loreley - Koblenz
    looking down from Loreley
    by globetrott, 4 more photos
    The Loreley is a rock close to St. Goar, about 25km upstream from Koblenz and a major tourist-attraction. There is first of all the old ledgend of a fisherman, who caught a mermaid and raised her as a child, she was finally sitting at the Loreley-rock, combing her hair, confusing the sailors going down the river Rhine...
    The biggest danger in that area is still the river itself, trafic-lights are regulating a one-way-system there, there are heavy streams and just a narrow path that is ship-able.
    On top of the Loreley you will have a great view and find a great hotel and restaurant today.
    In St. Goar you may see the house, where Loreley was raised according to the old ledgends, read more about it on my St. Goar-page !

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  • Directions: St. Goar and the Loreley-rock are about 25km upstream from Koblenz !
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    The Loreley: The Loreley
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  • Updated By steventilly on November 5, 2002
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  • Is THAT It? - Koblenz
    Is THAT It?
    by steventilly
    I dunno what I had in mind when I thought of The Loreley - something quite romantic and probably involving a statue or monument of some kind. I didn't realise it's just a bit of hillside.
    And this used to lead sailors to their doom? Were they drunk or what???
    I guess I should confine it to "tourist trap" - certainly if I'd come here just for this I'd be going home a disappointed man. But as a part of a journey down the Rhine, it was... well, quite nice.

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    The Loreley: Onwards Down The Rhine (to Loreley & Some Castles)
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  • Updated By steventilly on November 5, 2002
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  • A Castle On The Rhine - Koblenz
    A Castle On The Rhine
    by steventilly
    We left Boppard without getting lost and headed on down the Rhine towards the Loreley. The route down the Rhine is littered with pretty villages with castles perched above them. This is a random example from somewhere between Boppard and Loreley.

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    The Loreley: Take a boat from one of the...
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  • Updated By tessy on August 24, 2002
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  • The Loreley - Koblenz
    by tessy
    Take a boat from one of the viallges and make a short trip to the Lorelei! There is one statue of the Lorelei in the Rhine on that peninsula, you can make a walk there.
    More about the Lorelei in the travelogue

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    The Loreley: The Loreley Rock
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  • Updated By codrutz on December 27, 2004
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  • Loreley - Koblenz
    Loreley
    by codrutz
    Going south on the majestic Rhein Valley, also called the Castle Route, at one point you will encounter the place where the Rhein downstream was squeezed into its narrowest and deepest point. Even in the 19th century, reefs and rapids made it extremely dangerous for ships and rafts to pass this point, so a tree bells warning told the crew it was time to pray. The legend says that here, on the top of the Loreley rock a blonde siren - Loreley lures sailors to their doom with her singing and enigmatic beauty. The legend continues when a son of a Count was sunk here, and his father sent troups to kill to witch on the peak. Then Loreley calls her father, the mighty Rhein river, and the waves went up, get her downstream and she was never seen since.

    There is a footpath up to the top of the rock from the car park at the foot of the Loreley. A magnificent view is promised from up the peak.

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    The Loreley: The Loreley (II)
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  • Updated By steventilly on November 5, 2002
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  • Tourists Spoil The View Of The Loreley - Koblenz
    Tourists Spoil The View
    Of The Loreley
    by steventilly
    Guess we had to pose for a picture :-)

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