Travelog post for: Murph

Hi Mummy,
In the afternoon Katja met her friend Erika and we started today's trip to Wuppertal, one of the neighbour cities.

We took the bus to Wuppertal and started walking on the "Sambatrasse", a closed railway track. In this region you can find a lot of those so called "Bahntrassen". They are liked by pedestrians and as well by cyclists. Usually you can walk or ride through a town without much contact to traffic and street noise. This route here is about 9 km long.

We walked along abandoned train stations and allotment gardens.





It seems that someone found souvenirs along the railway track ...





We saw large stacks of wood, protected against burglary or maybe aliens.



Risk of accident?! I never thought that taking a walk should be dangerous.



Most leafs are already fallen.



Suddenly we heard a lot of noise from cars. The route is leading along a motorway feeder.



When the path went along a residental area I read some informations about a villa.

A part of the Sambatrasse is crossing the Wuppertal Zoo. A bridge is build over the zoo, on the right side you can see the tiger enclosure. We even saw two tiger playing.



The tiger were so far away that we had to zoom.



We saw this funny sign on the bridge, just behind the tiger closure. It says

Info for the tigers - Meals on wheels.

Cyclists have to take care ...  (Maybe not only cyclists).



We reached the end of the Sambatrasse here.







Katja and Erika decided to enjoy a pizza before going home. That's what they always do when they walked along the Sambatrasse *gg*

Here you can see the one and only "Schwebebahn", a suspended monorail, travelling above the surface of the river Wupper. They have really strange  transportation means here on earth.





We went home by Schwebebahn and bus.

Bye
Murph