We love to meet up with a friend we’ve known since 1993 when she was a teacher at Laurie’s work at Timbertop School. Renate has been to Australia and we make a point of travelling to Munich to visit her when we are in England and she has come to us in London as well.
This visit we headed for Munich and the train trip to the south of the city to a little village called Ebenhausen. Our first night saw us at dinner on the Isar River at a gorgeous traditional German restaurant. It was ‘fish night’ nd we got stuck into some beautiful trout.
The next day was beautiful and sunny so we headed for the highest mountain in Germany, the Zugspizte. At 2,962 m (9,718 ft) above sea level, it lies south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the border between Germany and Austria runs over its western summit.
We had lunch in Austria and coffee and cake in Germany!
The scenery is amazing. We took a cable car up the mountain, then another to an incredible ice hotel, after looking around inside it we then took another cable car to a cog wheel railway and half an hour down the mountain through a very dark tunnel, squashed between heaps of exhausted skiers.
On the road to the Zugspitze
Laurie and Renate on the summit of the Zugspitze
On the border into Austria
From the top of the Zugspitze
Mountains as far as you can see
One very steep cable car
The Ice Bar
The African theme is followed in the entire Igloo Village
There about 27 bedrooms. Lots of sheep skins on the beds!
The incredible details in the ice sculptures are amazing
A line of camels welcomes you into the hotel - entirely carved from ice.
The doorway in this mound of snow behind the external bar is the entrance to the Igloo Village.
You’d never know it was there from the outside
For more information about the ice hotel you might like to explore the following site:
The tariff shows as 174 Euro per person or about $A492 per double!
More to come on our stay near Munich. Have to pack now!
I am glad to see your trip photos. Everything is looking truly amazing and enjoyable. We too will be visiting many venues in Chicago during our 10 day family trip. Hoping to have such a great experience in our trip.
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