Travelog for: umechan

Then we drove to Arnbruck to visit the Weinfurtner Glasdorf. Arnbruck is a city next to the Glasstraße - glass street - where still glassblowing is very important.
Weinfurtner has a really nice garden with glass decorations.

At last we drove to Maibrunn, because we read, that you can have a good view over the landscape from the WaldWipfelWeg - treetop way. I felt a bit scared, because the way swings and made me feel dizzy. I felt so dizzy, that we forgot to take a photo of the landscape.








Under the way there are stations to learn more about nature - here coats of different animals.

Do you remember the Gläserne Scheune? Today we drove to see the Gläserne Wald - glass wood. It was also created by Rudi Schmid.

Our real destination was to go on top of the Großer Arber - great Arber. Großer Arber (German for Great Arber, Czech: Velký Javor) is the highest peak of the Bavarian-Bohemian-mountain ridge, with an elevation of 1,456 metres (4,777 ft). Although geographically belonging to the Bohemian Forest, it is often referred to as "King of the Bavarian Forest". Just enjoy the views















View to one of the Felsriegel - rock outcrops.




We also tried to climb a bit. So you see, who fell down a bit? Brinda had a little accident, but she wasn't hurt, thank God.




She climbed up again and sat down next to us.




Then we all climbed down again and went on the way, which you see here, to go to the next rock outcrop.




Here we had been able to see the Kleine Arbersee - little Arber lake.




In the early afternoon we drove down again, because we wanted to walk around the Große Arbersee - big Arber lake.

After a few minutes drive by car we arrived at the Großer Arbersee - big Arbersee. Großer Arbersee is a lake at an elevation of 935 m, its surface area is 7.7 ha. It's about 10 000 years old. At its west side the water surface is covered by about 2 hectare swinging grass. Over thousands of years these swinging grass islands reached a thickness of between 1 and 3 meters. So much about information, now I just want to show you some photos. I really enjoyed to walk around the lake.






Here you see the swinging grass islands.






View to the Großer Arber and to the edge between swinging grass and water surface.

Back at the hotel we all were really tired, but also much too excited. We saw a thunderstorm coming and we all had been really afraid of it, but our hosts wanted to sit on the balcony and told us to relax a bit on the balustrade. The thunderstorm wasn't that bad, but of course we had to go inside, when it began to rain.

Today the weather wasn't that bad, but it was rather cold in the morning. We wanted to see some animals in the Bayerwald Tierpark Lohberg. It's a 10 hectare area with a 1,5 km long circular path. Many pictures and texts inform about lifestyle of many animals.

Here you should see a bird - I've seen it




This is a compound for wolves. I've seen some young wolves under the tree, where you see the arrow.

When we had been to the other places the other days, we found many interesting folders. One of it showed the Baumkronenweg - treetop path- in Neuschönau. As for today the forecast hadn't been too bad, we hoped, that we could have a good view over the landscape there. We had to drive about one hour, but we had a good chat in our Rucksack - backpack. Then we had to walk to the path. Every now and then we had to read about the trees and animals, which live there.






At first the path wasn't that high. The path starts with the height of 8m, and ascends up to 25m. The real highlight of the path is the tree tower  with a total height of 44m.  Within the tree tower you will find three trees, so you can experience the whole life of tree, from the root to the top!
From the top of the tower you have an absolut fantastic panoramic view over the beautiful landscape of the Bavarian Forest, over the moutains and the wounderful dales.

Early in the morning I wrote my postcard to you.




It is very cold and rainy today, so we had to think about the activity a lot, because we had no chance to go outside so much. After going too our books and folders, Saphira asked us, if we could drive to Furth im Wald to visit the Erste deutsche Drachenmuseum - the first German Dragon museum. Of course we were hooked by this idea and so were our hosts. It's sad, that the museum was so crowded, that we nearly had no chance to take photos. It was a bit better in the city museum and then on the tower of the museum we were alone - nobody else did want to go outside in the rain and wind to take photos, but I think, that the photo there isn't that bad.
Furth im Wald is a town in the District of Cham, in Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border. It is situated in the Bavarian Forest, 16 km northeast of Cham, and 17 km southwest of Domažlice.

After a rest at the hotel we drove to Zwiesel.

At first we bought some beer at this brewery.




Then we drove to the Zwiesel glass shop and took a look at the big glass pyramid.






We took all these photos from inside the car, because it was raining so heavily.

On our way to Engelsdorf we passed Neurandsberg again, but this time we stopped there to take a look at the Pilgrimage Church Our holy mother and at the ruin of castle Neurandsberg.
Neurandsberg is a suburb of Rattenberg just like Engelsdorf. The ruin of the castle is very small, there is only a bit left. The area is used as a place for special nature plants. You can't go inside, because everything is full of plants.
The church is late baroque, built from 1698 to 1700.

We are waiting for our host's husband, who gets some money from the savings bank.

It seems to be habit of Germans, that they drive to neighbour countries, if they are close to the border, just to get some more petrol or diesel for their cars. Usually it is just much cheaper there than in Germany. I thought, that we could go and see more of Austria, but the weather wasn't that great, so we decided to stay in Passau, Germany, for this day.

At first we drove to Mariahilf, so called Mary help. It is a pilgrimage church and you have a nice view over Passau from this place. Here you can read more about the history.







Here you see the cathedral of Passau, where we will go at next.

St. Stephan's Cathedral, or "Dom St. Stephan" in German, is a baroque church from 1688 in Passau, Germany. It is the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Passau and the main church of his diocese. Take a look at the link, if you want to see a nice photo of the whole church


Over time, the Passau Cathedral has acquired the largest organ outside of the United States. It is also the largest cathedral organ in the world. The organ currently has 17,774 pipes and 233 registers, all of which can be played with the five-manual general console in the gallery. wikipedia