So yes, I am already home, and it may seem kind of silly to keep catching up with the last couple days of the trip, but I'm going to anyways lol.... Plus this one I've already had typed up on my computer but just hadn't had a chance to upload it till now. So here it is:
Rise and Sine! Bright and early! We headed out from the hotel at about 7:30 in the morning. It was a little over an 2 hour ride to get to the castle. Since we were all still sleepy we mostly slept the whole way there. It has gotten to the point of the trip where I think we were all just tired all the time. I am pretty sure that when I get home I will sleep for a week straight! But our nap on the way there was just what we need to get us through this fun filled afternoon.
The naps only lasted until we began to see the mountains out the window. This was so beautiful! I never would have imagined I’d ever see anything like that. But here we are, staring out the windows that these beautiful mountains.
Neuschwinstein Castle tucked away in the mountains, gave us a little sneak peak of what we would see later that day.
Finally we arrive to our destination. Before we head to the castle, it was time for a hike! We all took a Gondola ride up one of the mountains. It was so cool!
So we got up there and just took the unbelieveable view. There was a path to walk up, so we proceeded up the mountain some more on foot.
We kept walking and walking and taking pictures. Until we reached this sign.
I’m not sure the word for word translation, but pretty much it says that from here on out the path can be dangerous, there may be falling rocks and if you are in the least bit nervous about proceeding you should turn back now. Oh and that if something were to happen to you (aka should you fall and die) they can not be head responsible. Yikes!
I think if we were all to be completely honest after reading the sign and seeing the path ahead of us we were all getting a little more nervous. But still we moved on. At this point we were no longer just walking up the path. Oh no, we were hiking up the Alps, no big deal…
So we kept going and finally met up with Tony, Olaf and Tristan who had left us in the dust a long time ago. Unfortunately we didn’t make it up to the top of the mountain (where the cross is) because as we were climbing we could hear thunder rolling in the background. But we got pretty close!
So now for our descent down the mountain. Much easier than walking up, that’s for sure! Also a little quicker since we wanted to make sure we got back before the storm hit. Which we did, thankfully! Everyone was hungry after our hike so we stopped at the café on the mountain .After we ate, we had to unfortunately wait for quite awhile for the weather to clear up before they would let us take the gondola back down. They are very cautious about not allowing people to ride the gondola if there is any lightning, for obvious reasons.
Once we finally were able to ride back down, it was off to our next stop! Neuschwanstein! Or also know as the Cinderella Castle. Ooo! The weather was taking a bit of the turn for the worse, but at least we made it through our hike. And the tour of the castle is indoors of course so it worked out just fine. The best part of the castle tour was the ride to the castle. We took a horse drawn carriage up to the castle! I felt like such a princess!
Once we got up to the castle, we had a bit of time to wait until our tour so we walked around the gift shop. And you will not believe what I found. Remember how I said I found a little purse in Munich that I wanted but wasn’t able to get when I was there? Well I found (not the exact same one but) a similar one. So I indeed bought it as soon as a saw it.
It was finally time for our tour, so we stopped our touristy shopping and followed our group to the castle’s entrance. Sadly as soon as, we got in they told us we couldn’t take pictures. So unfair right?!? But I did snap a picture of the no pictures allowed sign… I felt like such a rebel.
The tour was alright. It was much shorter than the tour in Ludwisgburg. It was only maybe 30 minutes and our tour guide didn’t seem to give us all that much historical background about the time period or the royal family that lived there.
What I did learn though is that the castle was never completely finished. The whole second floor was left uncompleted because of the death of King Ludwig. The family lived there for less than a year before the King’s death. Afterwards, the building was property of the German parliament and made open to the public.
There was one very unique room; it was the King’s cave room. And it legit was constructed to look like a cave. It was kind of creepy if you ask me, but apparently the room was constructed specifically per the request of King Ludwig. This room was used as part of the argument as to claim King Ludwig’s insanity, which coincidentally occurred right before his death. Scandalous? Sounds like it to me.
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