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down on the Germans. Firstly, because their mountains are higher, very popular among Germans and Europeans and Chinese. In the
and secondly, because their prices are lower. For everything. Many summer everyone walks in the mountains with sticks, in the winter
Germans even go to refuel in Austria. Germany’s highest mountain, they go skiing. And you can move further into the mountains from
the Zugspitze, is only 2962 meters. these places.
From the central station to the south, southwest and southeast - From these small towns, buses run once an hour on a schedule
towards the Alps - electric trains depart every half an hour. Electric to even smaller villages. Villages are located along the shores of
trains run strictly on schedule, an hour and a half to go. And alpine lakes. The Alps formed billions of years ago, when our Earth
you come to some small Bavarian town. The most famous one is was young and stormy. There were faults between the mountains
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but to be honest, you can visit any one, that were filled with water from the melting of glaciers. Now these
they are all very similar and have the same structure. All of them are the purest mountain lakes of an oblong shape. Usually small, the
are built up with white-stone two-three-story villas, richly decorated walking route around the lake is an hour and a half, paths are very
with dark wood - dark architraves, terraces, balconies. Most of the comfortable, everyone goes for a walk. Beaches and boat stations
white surface of the walls is painted with amazing color popular are open in summer.
prints. In addition to flowers and other symbols of fertility which Strictly in the cuff, all these lakes are the same, but each one is
the local land is rich in, images of the Virgin Mary and St. Peter proud of some of its features. They support legends about the buried
which bless the owner of the house, his family, all the inhabitants gold of the Nazis and the treasures of the Nibelungs. By the way, on
of the city and all of Bavaria are very popular for painting. And, the lakes there are many scuba divers in tight winter wetsuits. We will
of course, beer. Beer production, hop cultivation, beer foams assume that they are looking for gold.
from mugs and turns into clouds on which St. Peter sits and from On Sunday it is impossible to find a single open cafe or shop in
heaven blesses this land on which beer is produced. Thus, it the village. Moreover, there are announcements on many of them
comes full circle. that we went on vacation to warm countries from October 15 to
Everything looks very thorough, clean, comfortable, solid, for a December 15. When we return, we will be glad to see you again.
full due. In almost every house there is either a hotel, or a boarding In the meantime, there is an off-season between summer and skiing,
house, or at least one room is rented to tourists. These places are there are no tourists, then there’s no reason to open up.