Salzburg means castle of salt. It was famous for its salt in the history.
It is such a popular place for tourists and we just needed to follow all the tourists groups to all the famous spots. We soon found out why it’s so attractive to the tourists.

[singlepic id=197 w=320 h=240 float=left] Mirabell garden palace. Baroque style garden. It was originally built by a archbishop for his mistress who gave birth to many of his children ( which is not allowed in Catholic). Eventually he was arrested and died in the prison.

Salzburg is also hometown of several world famous musicians. Such as Mozart. His birth house is this yellow building in the picture. It’s amazing to see such old building still standing there.
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To be continued….

It’s raining when we drove to Austria. This is the first rainy day we got during the vacation.

Drove through the border out of south Germany, it’s Austria. It’s good the EU make it so easy to cross the border. We stayed at Wolfgangsee, one of several beautiful lakes at the foot of Alps. It’s a popular vacation area. In the afternoon, the rain stopped and we had a short hike up to the mountain. My first hike in Alps!

[singlepic id=299 w=320 h=240 float=left] Beautiful view of the lake from the Hut on the mountain

[singlepic id=149 w=320 h=240 float=left]Munchen is the capital of Bavaria. Parked the car outside of Munchen, we purchased a whole day pass for the public transportation. It costs only 5 Euro per person.
The subway came on time. After 6,7 stops, we arrived the center of Munchen, Marienplatz. It’s the center of the old town of Munchen. There were many people waiting at the square in front of the new city hall already waiting for the clock to announce noon. When the bell hits 12 o’clock, the figures in the Carillon starts moving and dancing. They are all human size figuers. It’s maybe one of the most popular tourist spot. Groups of Japanese, Chinese, and Italian crowded the whole square.
[singlepic id=157 w=320 h=240 float=left]There’re many other historical buildings around this area, built in 17 century. The church are in different styles too, which shows less complicated decoration inside.

For lunch, without thinking, we had radler and “pig leg” again!

In the afternoon, we came to the “English garden”, which is a huge park in the center of the city, like the center park in New York. A river running through of it. A lot of people were sitting on the bank of the the river relaxing, some were swimming, just like people on the beach in L.A. On both side of the park, there’re 2 univercities.

[singlepic id=294 w=320 h=240 float=left]A tower in the English garden, called “Chinese tower”. There’s a really nice cafe/restaurant next to it. Recommend it! We sat down and had our cafe time.