We went to see three castles all belonging to "Mad King Ludwig". The first one was his childhood home called "Hohenschwangau Castle". We toured the inside of this one, its very big and very beautiful...
When "Mad King Ludwig" became king he started to build his dream castle, the "Neuschwanstien Castle". You can actually see this one from the first one, he had it built just up the mountain a little ways. This was so elaborate and frivolous that it is one of the reasons he got the "Mad" added to the front of his name. It is so amazingly beautiful that when Walt Disney saw it he modeled Sleeping Beauty's castle after it! So now it is nicknamed, "The Sleeping Beauty castle" or "the Disney castle" since it is the castle that is on the Disney symbol. Cool, heh! We toured the inside of this one too, neither place would allow us to take pictures inside, so we don't have any to show you, sorry!
After our tours we hiked through the Pollat Gorge just below these towering castles. Very beautiful! There were so many people at the castles, but just a few minutes walk and we were all by ourselves in natures serenity!
Then we took a tram ride up to the top of the nearby "Tegelberg Mountain" for an amazing view of the Alps mountains and the valley below.
(Beautiful view, worth the little hike, but my leg was throbbing!)
After coming down off of Tegelberg we drove a little ways over to "Linderhof Caslte" this was actually originally the Ludwig "hunting cabin"! Ha! After his father died Mad King Ludwig spruced up the place a little, just validating the "Mad" title. Here we only toured the outside because it was after hours, but we got a lot of great pictures without a bunch of pesky tourist in them! LOL!
After coming down off of Tegelberg we drove a little ways over to "Linderhof Caslte" this was actually originally the Ludwig "hunting cabin"! Ha! After his father died Mad King Ludwig spruced up the place a little, just validating the "Mad" title. Here we only toured the outside because it was after hours, but we got a lot of great pictures without a bunch of pesky tourist in them! LOL!
THIS is the front yard! We are standing on the front steps looking out...
Here we are standing at the little pavilion you see at the top of the above picture looking out over the "hunting cabin" and into the back yard... yeah, I sure would have hated it to rough it in this pitiful hunting cabin!
Here we are at the very top of the back yard looking down over the property getting the backside view of the "cabin".
The royal Swan coming in for a closer look.
Very pretty hunting grounds!
After our day of "mingling with royalty" (well, so there were no actually royal people around, but we stood where they have stood so close enough okay!) Anyway we went back to our hotel and had dinner in the first floor restaurant again, listened to the great accordion music and saw some more dancing. The best part of the day...this apple strudel!!! Oh YUM!
And you do not have to be royalty to enjoy a view like this out your hotel window!
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