Europe Day 7 Neuschwanstein

This morning we got up early and headed to Karlsplatz, where we boarded a tour bus. We headed south into the Bavarian mountains and about an hour and a half later arrived at Castle Linderhof, our first stop. 

We walked up to the castle and toured the rooms. It was fairly small, and more of a palace than a castle. Linderhof was the only castle Mad King Ludwig completed in his lifetime.

After a little over an hour we boarded the bus again and drove about 15 minutes to the village of Oberammergau, where every ten years they put on a Passion Play. We had about a half hour to look in some of the gift shops. The village is also well known for wood carving and coo-coo clocks. While we were there a light rain fell.

 

We then drove almost an hour along the Romantic Road through rolling hills and small villages until we arrived at the main stop on our tour, Neuschwanstein castle.  

We had lunch in Hohenschwangau, the village below the castle. After lunch we took the village bus to the bridge above the castle, took some photos there, then walked down to the front of the castle to start our tour. The tour took about a half hour. I wish it was longer and we got to see more of castle after all the work to get there, but I imagine most areas of the castle weren’t conducive to tour groups. There were a lot of steps up and then down.

 

When we came out the drizzle had started again, but stopped briefly while we walked down to the village and boarded the bus for our ride back to Munich.