Spring Break Day 2: Walking Tour & Englischer Garten in Munich
Hallo, Leute!
So, on our second day in Munich, my friend and I decided to join a free walking tour.
If you’ve never done one while touristing, you don’t know what you’re missing out on. They’re usually done either by Tourism students or expats who fell in love with the city (or with someone in the city, lol!), stayed and now wanna share their passion for the city with them tourists. Who better to show you around, amirite?
Also, they’re free. Of course, it is polite to tip the guides in the end of the tour, but then you pay how much you feel like paying. Furthermore, if you’re travelling alone, it’s a fun way to meet other travellers ^.^~
We checked online and the info we found was that free walking tour folks gathered at Marienplatz at (10am???). So, we left our hotel (btw – it was Goethe Hotel, highly recommend it: great location, uni-student-budget friendly and clean), and walked to Marienplatz once again.
Since we’d arrived a bit earlier, Ju and I took some random pictures of each other while waiting.
LOOK, THERE ARE PICTURES OF ME IN MUNICH!!!
Always being the one behind the lenses kinda sucks sometimes because you always end up with no pictures of yourself – especially if you’re like me and never remember to take selfies, lol. Luckily, though, my travel pal took some really nice pictures, yay ^.^
There were SO MANY free walking tours being offered.
People hold up flags in order to show you which language they speak – we went for one in English, but there also was a Spanish one (IT IS IMPORTANT TO SAY HERE that we speak Portuguese in Brazil, and not Spanish, but we know Spanish coz we learn it at school). Our tour guide was this super sun Aussie guy from Like a Local (I think…? He was wearing blue… oh no ich habe vergessen) and…
He took us to the same places we’d been to while walking aimlessly the day before, LOL!
This time, however, we had someone telling us
- Where we were
- The history behind each building
- Loads of medieval Bavaria tales (I LOVE ALL THE KINGS AND NOBLES DRAMA!!1!1!!)
- The rise of the Nazi party in WWII Bavaria
- Which restaurants were tourist baits and which local ones we could explore
- Just tourist baits in general, what we deffo had to do and deffo shouldn’t do while in Munich
- Other tours being offered to places nearby – like the Dachau Concentration Camp tour (big no!) or the Neuschwanstein Castle Tour (big yes!)
I’m not gonna get into details, because there is OH-SO-MUCH history in Munich. It was great because we covered pretty much ALL THE TOURISTY STUFF in a couple of hours, so we were then free to explore other random places.
After the walking tour, we decided to go check out the Englischer Garten. So, we walked some more.
It is a gigantic public park that goes from Munich’s center aaaall the way up to its northeastern limits. Random fact: it is Europe’s largest city park. Another random fact: there is a wave produced IDK HOW in one of the artificial streams flowing through the garden and PEOPLE SURF THERE. EVEN WHEN ITS FREEZING.
It was spring, but, uuuh, guess what?
T’was really cold, VERY RAINY, so I went all wrapped. Like a burrito. Back then, I only had that beanie, that coat and that scarf – so you’ll see me wearing them until I finish posting about our spring break trip, hehe.
the BEST travel pal that let me take ALL THE PICTURES of her that i wanted to, hihi ♡ love you!
pretty much the #OOTD of the entire trip, NEVERMIND WHATEVER FASHIONABLE CLOTHES i may or may not have worn underneath the coat/all the layers
Then we walked some more…
And reached this! Which is on top of a hill. We climbed up and you can see veeeeeery far in the horizon (if it aint super cloudy/rainy, which it happened about 3 minutes after we reached the top of le hill).
Anyways.
Enough of the Englischer Garten.
While walking to and from the garden, we saw another bunch of cute buildings.
Regierung von Oberbayern, a government office.
The original Bavarian National Museum building, which was commissioned by Maximilian II, King of Bavaria, in 1858, now home to the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde (State Museum of Ethnology). The inscription, “Meinem Volk zu Ehr und Vorbild”, means In Honor of my People and as an Example to Them.
Museum Fünf Kontinente – The Museum Five Continents in Munich, a museum for Non-European artworks and objects of cultural value.
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I tried keeping the amount of pictures in these two posts low, *sorry if you think I’ve failed*, but Munich is just too beautiful! Amount of steps walked on our 2nd day in Munich:
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xoxo