That's what Neuschwanstein means. We went to that castle today and did another waterfall hike ( got my exercise as this one seemed even a bit harder even though it was shorter). Turns out that there was a lot of eccentricity with Ludwig. For example he seemed to be obsessed with Wagner and swans, died mysteriously at the age of 40 right after he was diagnosed as " mad" and only lived on his castle for another 6 months before he died and it was taken over by Bavaria because he owed lots and lots of money on it. It was never finished and in fact only 16 rooms were completed. There was amazing brickwork, mosaics and painting as would be expected.
The watefall hike was really cool. We started out at the base of the mountain and took a path around the back of the castle through a gorge and up next to a waterfall. If I had to estimate the vertical, I would saybit was around 1500 ft and it took us about 30 minutes to get up there. The views were incredible!! Once we reached the top we were able to walk around to the south side of the castle and stand on a bridge over the gorge which was another several hundred foot climb. That was actually a little bit scary particularly when crossing the entire length of the gorge while the ground is waaaaaay down below.
Probably the coolest part of the day was for Rob. They were running some para gliding trips where you go off a mountain alp more than a mile high and sail around the castle. Unfortunately they only had one more spot and I knew Rob really wanted to do it so I took photos from below. He said it was amazing. Basically you go in tandem with an experienced glider and you are in front and they are behind controlling the glider. Apparently there is some similarity to jumping except without the freefall part. So cool.
We switch hotels tomorrow since this one is full for the next two days. We're thinking about going to Salzberg for the day so or will either be that or maybe another castle. Hopefully the next hotel will have a computer and I'll be able to upload photos.
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Hi Kelly, Your blog is wonderful. Different atmosphere in Germany - cool and prosperous (except Dachau). Check mine http://www.costajill.com. Looking forward to Italy.
thanks for checking this out Jill! your blog looks awesome too. Can't read it just now, but when I get to Italy, I'll have some time to take a look.
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