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hello and greetings from the german alps today we'll be showing you around Berchtesgaden
garden national park which happens to be germany's only alpine national park
this is a place that i had been wanting to visit ever since i learned of its existence
and i knew sam would be happy with a quiet nature escape especially when the scenery looks like this
give us mountains forests and lakes any day of the week and we're a happy couple we spent a total of
three nights in this little slice of paradise and we made the most of our time here with plenty of
hikes around Berchtesgaden national park a boat tour on the emerald waters of Königssee
a cable car ride up yanner mountain plus we just had fun befriending the local farm animals and
enjoying rainy picnics with mountain views from our balcony so as always we invite you to join us
on this nature escape to the german alps hit that subscribe button and let's jump into this video
good afternoon so we have just arrived at our next destination we are in Berchtesgaden
national park here in the southeast corner of germany it's like this tiny
little pocket that almost goes into austria and yeah we're just surrounded by mountains
it is gorgeous here we're about to go out on our first hike of the day
and sammy boy are you gonna put some clothes on he's like wait wait a shirt might be appropriate
look at that he is clothed he is closed hello are you excited to be going hiking
i am and uh we're trying to sneak one in before it's apparently gonna rain
later in the afternoon so yeah pumped please please don't rain
we stayed at a guest house called Alpenpension Bergidyll that was about a 20-minute walk into
town it was situated in a quiet neighborhood where we were surrounded by mountains
small farms and alpine style architecture with lots of wood and flower baskets
so
where have we arrived sam we apparently have arrived at Königssee Germany did i pronounce that
correctly i hope so the king's lake kings lake and we are hiking too we're going to Malerwinkl yes
yeah this is the easiest loop apparently there are a number of different hiking trails we hope
to do several of them and there's just so much to do here like there's a cable car there's a boat
trip there's multiple hiking options we're gonna try to do as much as we can weather permitted yeah
basically since it's our first afternoon here and we're getting started a little later in the day
we figured we would do the easiest hike available and that's Malerwinkl so yeah we've already been
walking for a while so we are 10 minutes away from the lookout point that's awesome yeah it's for me
this is the perfect temperature to be out it's probably like what 12 13 14 degrees i'm a little
bundled up nice i love it i actually like having to wear a real shirt this is good but yeah we're
getting some beautiful views here along the way we can see the lake off on the right hand side
the boats are going by tomorrow we're going to be doing a boat tour hopefully the weather's clear
we do have two full days after this just in case
but yeah beautiful scenery all around so painful so this is fantastic
barely anyone here i know you know what i think it's because we're doing our hike later in the day
most people would have gone in the morning it's true when we were walking into town most people
were walking back towards their guest houses yeah so yeah i mean if you are a hiker you would
be doing your hikes in the morning no doubt yes whenever we've gone on hiking trips we've
done that it's just today of course we arrived in the afternoon yeah and we've got a little
look a split in the road fork in the road that's what's called splitting the trail fork in the road
if you're planning to visit on a day trip and you only have time to do one short hike i would
recommend Malerwinkl which means painter's corner this trail starts on the north end
of Königssee Germany just past the boat sheds and it has several vantage points along the way
some from above and others down by the water's edge ethereal doesn't even begin to describe it
so there's the official lookout spot and then look at this check this out guys then there is this wow
just gotta keep walking on the same trail and then you reach the benches and it's
just beautiful imagine if we could actually see the mountains you know i love it with the low
hanging fog i feel like it adds some moodiness to it and we can see the boats coming back from
the excursion on the lake does it feel a little bit like a mystery with the uh with the clouds
is it what do you call the clouds shrouding over the mountains yeah there we go
after the hike we went back into town and found a lakeside beer garden for dinner
asked my friend a beer i don't feel like we really earned it because
that was an easy hike but as a welcome to this part of the country he's never breast enough
i'm laughing because you've managed to get cheese on the hood of the lens oh no where
is it it's okay are you serious oh no anyways the things we do for the photos huh dinner time
the two dishes that i'm sure you guys are very familiar with at this point we got the keys of
spatzle the noodles with cheese and crispy onions on top we just can't help ourselves guys it's nice
and golden that's just a classic dish here so good and we're running out of time to have it so um um
more noodles but with a mushroom cream sauce yep we've ordered so much food recently i think this
is pork i only understand part of the menu so half the time i'm guessing food is always good
hello hello today's day two day two it's a little bit rainy but we are still getting out there we're
gonna go explore do some hiking right now we're on a cable car yeah by the way greetings from a
cable car greetings from the cable car we are moving so we bought tickets to go up to mitten
station 24 euros per person to go up and down um and yeah apparently there's also a restaurant at
this stop so we can potentially eat there if it's open if not in the town we have lots of options
and then there is a second cable car you can take going even further up
but today it's so like foggy like we have these low hanging clouds i don't think we'd be able
to see anything from the peak because we can't even see the peak so we just opted for halfway
up and i'm okay with that i'm looking forward to the height we're gonna do yeah it seems like a
compromise so yeah that is the update from the cable car and we'll see you when we get there
so as you can see it wasn't the most ideal day to go hiking
but we only had a few days here and we didn't want to miss out we hiked for about an hour
with umbrellas in our icy hands and what kept us going was the thought of reaching one of the
alpine huts for a hot cup of coffee and some cake but sadly they were not open that day
we were pretty hungry by the time we got down the mountain so we went into a restaurant located
not too far from yenapan which is the cable car station this place had a nice cozy vibe
i got their gristle which is a potato bacon onion fry up served with an
egg on top it's a hearty dish that's meant to use up your sundae leftovers
and meanwhile sam got the schnitzel stuffed with cheese and a side of fries
juno i'm kunigzee has lots of random little trails that go through farmland
so that afternoon we enjoyed a little walk through
the outskirts of town and met a whole bunch of farm animals along the way
girls
we've made friends with the world's friendliest dog this is cleo say hi
it's so sweet it was our welcoming committee when we first came here and cleo likes to do
pauses out sometimes huh pause these out yeah not right now or should you go should
you're the sweetest dog treating ourselves to a romantic balcony picnic for two yeah we sure are
so we ended up instead of going out for dinner we went to the grocery store we picked up some
italian wine primitivo from julia and we got some nice little snacks these are quite some herb
i know what do you call them paprika there's some healthy chips paprika well i don't know if chips
are healthy but we'll go with that if it makes you feel better and then some crunchy peas sweet chili
powder produce wine and wine and the cups that were provided and guys i don't know
if you can see this but come check this out will you track me over here here's my spots
guys we have finally got a view of the snow-capped mountains that's what we came to see
and they were covered in clouds up until now but you can see them now what do you think beautiful
beautiful huh we're gonna use the zoom to properly show you exactly right up there
the next day was our big excursion day during the famous boat trip of Schönau am Königssee
we decided to go after lunch once the rains had eased a bit in the meantime nothing like some hot
soup and a bowl of pasta on a cold rainy day and apple strudel 2 because this is germany after all
this is us being our most strategic weather-wise because it is raining today yes but it appears
from three to five o'clock there's a 30 to 40 percent chance of precipitation so it could
be a bit dry and so we delayed our outing we're gonna go at like 9 10 in the morning
hike all day we're like no let's not go out and get completely soaked
just wait a little bit longer have lunch first go do the boat ride and hopefully
get a little bit of dry hiking in so we'll see if that holds true or not may or may not work
after lunch we bought our tickets right on the spot
and we're able to get on the next departure out
but if you're visiting during high season you may want to do so in advance as it can get very busy
the journey itself was stunning it was early fall so there were some peeps of orange and gold in
between the evergreens and the low-hanging clouds just added to the magic of the place
perhaps the most exciting stop of all was at the echo wall here one of the
crew members pulled out the flugelhorn to demonstrate the echo that bounces back
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we then got off at saint Bartholomä which is a catholic pilgrimage church
it is named after saint Bartholomä the apostle the patron saint of alpine farmers and dairy men
the church is built in the baroque style and has a red onion domed roof
unfortunately the church was not open to visitors because corona times
so we can't show you the interior but we did enjoy a nice walk in the surrounding area
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hello hello we were on the boat for a while we're on the boat now we are off the boat we got off at
the very first stop Bartholomä yeah that's where you have the the little chapel which is closed
at the moment unfortunately we can't go in but there's a beautiful like 30 minute trail oh it's
just lovely yeah you know what not too many people are actually doing that it seems most
people are just clustered around the restaurant and around i don't blame them it is cold and wet
so they may be you know eating or getting some sustenance tea and cake tea and cake but um
we're enjoying the trail yeah what a beautiful ride the nice thing is it's an electric boat
it's been that way since the 89 1989 so a long time they're doing that to obviously protect the
environment here it's a pristine national park and i i love that the other thing that was super
cool was just how slow the ride was i don't think i've ever been on a boat ride that slow
just to take everything in and also my favorite part was when they played the trumpet
in front of the echo wall and like every note he plays essentially bounces back to us yeah that
was super cool yeah he he did well too he made some good good money 10 euro bills were in that
we tipped them as well of course but uh yeah so this is amazing so this is even
the main stop we're doing we decided to get off here though because it's halfway
so what we're gonna do is complete this walk yes hop back on the boat go visit the last stop
where we'll do some hiking and then we'll take the boat ride back into town sounds good that's good
hello we are going to make our souvenir penny but you actually need five cents to create it
is it just a euro and five cents or is it created on this that's what we're wondering
no they make it on the five cent coin think so yeah well we'll find out we'll find out
it was really hard to find this by the way we had to take through in the face
these are rare twenty we had a one we had a two euro hard to find this one
okay
isn't that beautiful though look at this
we then hop back on the boat and continue the journey towards Salet which is the last stop at
the end of the lake from this point there's a secondary lake you can hike to called Obersee
the color of the water at this lake was something out of this world
it shifted from turquoise to emerald even on the greatest of days
and that contrasted with the early autumn foliage in the most beautiful way
i felt like we had stumbled into a secret fjord with towering rock walls on either side and then
there was water cascading down the mountains and that thick cloud coverage that looked like
a blanket shielding this paradise from the rest of the world i'll be the first to admit that i don't
like being outdoors when it's cold and wet but i couldn't even complain with scenery like this
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little goatees how are you all doing this fine morning well good morning good morning guys good
morning guys our time in Berchtesgaden has sadly come to an end we are down to our last few hours
here so we decided to go for a little morning stroll one last one it's just so beautiful here we
had to squeeze in one last walk so we've basically just gone up the valley a little bit there's a lot
of farms around here and we are walking towards one of the neighboring villages and we'll see
how far we make it because we do have to pack up and get going soon but no rain there's no rain
it's a miracle what a surprise yeah we thought we'd come and enjoy it for a little
bit it's kind of cool because one half side of the mountains is kind of revealing itself
and the other side is completely covered in clouds it's a mysterious experience this morning
and that concludes our three-day trip to the german alps we hope you enjoyed exploring this
little corner of bavaria germany with us even in the rain if you enjoyed this video and want
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