05-30-2014, 09:52 PM
DAY 2
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The next day we recognized that it rained over night and brought fresh new snow on top of the mountains, so it was clear that some of the originally planned detours or spontaneous rides into higher mountain regions have to be cancelled.
Instead, we took the "Scharitzkehlstraße" which lead us on tiny little single trails through the Alp region passing some lonely farms.
From Berchtesgaden we headed to Inzell, Ruhpolding and Reit im Winkl and finally crossed the Austrian border. We took a rest in a little café inside a small valley between the "Wilder Kaiser" and "Zahmer Kaiser".
Unfortunately, it started to rain very heavily when we rode from there to the lakes "Schliersee" and "Tegernsee". Some roads were even flooded with water and when we passed them we felt like riding a boat not a bike. But eveything went well. After 2 hours the rain stopped.
At that moment we traveresed a gorgeous nature reserve along the river "Isar". Although I have never been there, we both felt like being in Canada with broad rivers and mountains in the back.
At the end of the day we slept in a small private hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Unfortunately it was still foggy and cloudy so we were not able to see the biggest German mountain "Zugspitze" from Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
DAY 3
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Weather was still not fine and it was said that it will rain every now and then the whole day, so we decided not to ride too much kilometers this day but do a "culture day" instead. So first we went to "Oberammergau" which is well known for their Christian Passion Play which is performed every 10 years and is based on a vow from 1634 to God to spare them from a bubonic plague. The city (and the whole region) is also well known for the painted house walls (so called "Lüftlmalereien").
We did a brief stop at "Kloster Ettal" (monastry)
and headed to "Schloß Linderhof" (a little castle of Bavarian king Ludwig).
We had lunch close to the "Wieskirche" (roccoco church)
and wanted to visit the "Schloß Neuschwanstein" (the model for Walt Disney's Cinderella castle).
Unfortunately, it started to rain again and sight was poor, so we decided to stop our tour for that day in the early afternoon and took a nice landside hotel close to a lake. To warm us up we went to the hotel sauna.
DAY 4
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After a long and delicious breakfast, we rode through the "Namloser Tal"
and the "Tannheimer Tal"
(2 valleys) in Austria (as our hotel was located quite close to the border) and went then back to the German side again.
Thanks to the European Union and the "Schengen agreement" we neither had to take out our passport when we crossed the borders nor were subjected to any border custom check.
We passed Bad Hindelang and had the last tiny zickzack road under our feet when we rode to Balderschwang. And faster as planned we arrived ath the end of the "German Alps Road" at the city of Lindau at the lake of constance.
As said earlier, we had to cancel some of our planned little detours to the uper Alp regions due to the weather so we arrived 1 day earlier in Lindau.
What to do now? First we thought about crossing Switzerland or France on our way back home but that would have been a longer than 1 day detour. So we decided to surprise my parents who live in the Southern part of the Black Forest and stay for one night there.
DAY 5
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The next morning we started very relaxed and drove slowly through the Black Forest to the North and arrived at early afternoon in Mannheim.
Since we arrived there the weather was much better and temperature are in mid 20s. At one point in Austria when crossed a mountain pass it was 8 degrees celsius only.
...and here is the GPX file of our trip (with all planned and not done detours).
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[url=attachment.php?aid=1557]Alpenstraße gesamt 1-10.zip (Size: 2.49 KB / Downloads: 3)
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The next day we recognized that it rained over night and brought fresh new snow on top of the mountains, so it was clear that some of the originally planned detours or spontaneous rides into higher mountain regions have to be cancelled.
Instead, we took the "Scharitzkehlstraße" which lead us on tiny little single trails through the Alp region passing some lonely farms.
From Berchtesgaden we headed to Inzell, Ruhpolding and Reit im Winkl and finally crossed the Austrian border. We took a rest in a little café inside a small valley between the "Wilder Kaiser" and "Zahmer Kaiser".
Unfortunately, it started to rain very heavily when we rode from there to the lakes "Schliersee" and "Tegernsee". Some roads were even flooded with water and when we passed them we felt like riding a boat not a bike. But eveything went well. After 2 hours the rain stopped.
At that moment we traveresed a gorgeous nature reserve along the river "Isar". Although I have never been there, we both felt like being in Canada with broad rivers and mountains in the back.
At the end of the day we slept in a small private hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Unfortunately it was still foggy and cloudy so we were not able to see the biggest German mountain "Zugspitze" from Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
DAY 3
====
Weather was still not fine and it was said that it will rain every now and then the whole day, so we decided not to ride too much kilometers this day but do a "culture day" instead. So first we went to "Oberammergau" which is well known for their Christian Passion Play which is performed every 10 years and is based on a vow from 1634 to God to spare them from a bubonic plague. The city (and the whole region) is also well known for the painted house walls (so called "Lüftlmalereien").
We did a brief stop at "Kloster Ettal" (monastry)
and headed to "Schloß Linderhof" (a little castle of Bavarian king Ludwig).
We had lunch close to the "Wieskirche" (roccoco church)
and wanted to visit the "Schloß Neuschwanstein" (the model for Walt Disney's Cinderella castle).
Unfortunately, it started to rain again and sight was poor, so we decided to stop our tour for that day in the early afternoon and took a nice landside hotel close to a lake. To warm us up we went to the hotel sauna.
DAY 4
====
After a long and delicious breakfast, we rode through the "Namloser Tal"
and the "Tannheimer Tal"
(2 valleys) in Austria (as our hotel was located quite close to the border) and went then back to the German side again.
Thanks to the European Union and the "Schengen agreement" we neither had to take out our passport when we crossed the borders nor were subjected to any border custom check.
We passed Bad Hindelang and had the last tiny zickzack road under our feet when we rode to Balderschwang. And faster as planned we arrived ath the end of the "German Alps Road" at the city of Lindau at the lake of constance.
As said earlier, we had to cancel some of our planned little detours to the uper Alp regions due to the weather so we arrived 1 day earlier in Lindau.
What to do now? First we thought about crossing Switzerland or France on our way back home but that would have been a longer than 1 day detour. So we decided to surprise my parents who live in the Southern part of the Black Forest and stay for one night there.
DAY 5
====
The next morning we started very relaxed and drove slowly through the Black Forest to the North and arrived at early afternoon in Mannheim.
Since we arrived there the weather was much better and temperature are in mid 20s. At one point in Austria when crossed a mountain pass it was 8 degrees celsius only.
...and here is the GPX file of our trip (with all planned and not done detours).
[url=attachment.php?aid=1557]Alpenstraße gesamt 1-10.zip (Size: 2.49 KB / Downloads: 3)