Friday, October 8, 2010

Germany, 3. Sidestep into Austria

Day 3 of our Germany trip.

We woke up at a much more reasonable 8AM instead of the 4AM we got the previous night. I still maintain it was worth it to get up early. In any case, while everyone else woke at 8AM to enjoy the free breakfast (and it was good too!) provided by the Hostel, I decided to wake right near sunrise time. I managed to catch these absolutely epic shots of the sunrise. Amazing skies atop the hostel we stayed at. I wish we could have stayed for another day to enjoy the beautiful sunrise. Something about orange / pink / red skies seems to attract me. Its really a shame I didn't grab camgirl's fancy camera to go out to take these shots.. otherwise we'd be able to share.







The mountains in the distance after we made the descent to the bottom of the mountain, where we visited Austria afterwards on our way to Schloss Neuschwanstein.









The sign was so unofficial: I guess Europe really is starting to become a land with no borders except for.. well, the countries that sit on the edge.











And here we are at the famous Schloss Neuschwanstein!

The place was quite breathtaking. I'm certain that many countries have these viewpoints, but I felt right back at home with this view here:
This concludes Germany. I won't be travelling much in the next month seeing as finals are looming just around the corner, but I should be hitting up Russia, UK, and Italy in November. Any further suggestions for me?

Country Count: Iceland (for a grand total of an hour... LOL), Finland, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria (for a grand total of less than an hour, more LOL)

1 comment:

  1. i want to go back to the hostel... it was so nice! *sigh*

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