Munich Day Three

What happened to day 2? Day 1 ran really late into the night and we missed our wake up call. We spent the day in our hotel room laying in bed. So we wasted an entire day recovering from the night before. Most people would like to go sightseeing around the town, we decided to check out the nightlife instead.

We did manage to get up later that day and walk around outside by the hotel. There was a nice creek with a swan floating down the stream. The stroll around the creek was almost worth the cost of our pre-paid tour we missed.......yeah right.


We sucked it up and paid again to ride a train to the area where Neushwanstein Castle was located. They had a really nice hike up to the castle that had some great views of the town below. Here is Brian declaring this spot on the trail as his own.

The hike wasn't very long, but it was pretty much uphill the entire way. I decided to take some breaks and take pictures of the castle from below.


Here is the entrance to the castle. We had a guided tour in the castle of only 16 rooms. There are a total of 65 rooms, but only 16 are completely finished. King Ludwig II built this castle starting in 1869 and spent so much money building castles around Bavaria that when he died (1886) they stopped all construction that he had sanctioned. Although it was built in the late 19th century, this castle had electricity, a telephone, steam engines, modern venting, plumbing, and heating pipes. The rooms were amazing and very intricate, and of course, no pictures were allowed.


At the end of the tour we took some pictures of Hohenschwangau Castle from the window. This was another Kind Ludwig II castle, but we didn't have time to visit it. Neuschwanstein Castle is owned by the state of Bavaria, but this castle is owned by Franz, duke of Bavaria. I wish I owned a castle.