I haven’t been back since 1967. Trip was cancelled 3 years ago due to covid. Retired now and looking forward to an extended visit soon. Thank you for this video.

I lived in Germany for 5 years and my favorite way to admire Neuschwanstein was from the hiking trails up Säuling mountain. Not a recommendation for everyone but an awesome hike with stunning views.

I’m headed to Germany with my family in August. We found your videos a few weeks ago and we’ve completely shifted our agenda to spend more time in the Alps and nature. Thanks for all the videos!

Thank you sooooo much for the video ! 😘 Subscribed!

Glad I stumbled upon your channel. I will be visiting Munich over New Year's this year. Looking forward to watch some of your other videos on the area as well.

Thank you so much for these videos. I'm planning a trip to Bavaria this summer and watching your videos is really helping me plan out my itinerary in detail. 👍🏿

This was the best video!! So much great info and I love your approach to travel…as one doing more travel now it is my goal to travel where the locals travel and see it from your point of view. Keep making amazing videos!

Super. In June 2022, I met up with my 1970s 1st girlfriend for 1st time in 46 years to relive some of the car trip we did back then from UK. I live close to Memmingen (1-1,5 hrs with car/train/bus from Munich) Day 1: She flew Stanstead-Memmingen with Ryanair. Drove 40 minutes to Lindau island on Lake Constance. Day 2: 10 minutes to Bregenz in Austria, brief coffee in Switzerland on Lake Constance, drive through mountains to alpine Sonthofen in Germany. Day 3: Neuschwanstein/Hohenschwangau, Reutte, Linderhof Palace, Oberammergau then past Garmisch & Mittenwald (both more or less closed due to G7 Summit there) & to Seefeld in Austria above Innsbruck. Day 4: Past Innsbruck up Inn valley to Berchtesgarden (Hitler's Eagle's Nest) & the spectacular Königssee, & on to Salzburg Day 5: Drive back in to Germany to Chiemsee, Herrenchiemsee (Versailles) palace & Fraueninsel using great ferry services & on to Munich passing close to Tegernsee. Munich centre, Viktuallienmarkt, Hofbräuhaus, Franziskaner, Odeonsplatz etc! Day 6: Sunday & of course English garden stroll, water surfing, Chinese Tower beer garden, Schwabing, Olympiapark (the summer Tollwood festival), finish evening in Augustiner beer garden. Day 7: Starnberg Lake to Ammersee Lake & Andechs far too long with band playing. On to Landsberg & final night. Day 8: 30 minutes to Memmingen Airport (Memmingen town well worth visit) 900 km in 8 days. Most of these places are covered in your video, all easily reached by train from Munich. We didn't manage Rothenburg, but had done that in 1975! Hope to be repeating something similar in 2023 & years to come based simply around Munich, Bavaria, bits of neighbouring state of Baden-Württemberg, Austria, Switzerland & even Czech Republic. Keep up the great work. Servus!

This was SO helpful! Thank you!

Next week we'll be visiting Munich, Berchtesgaden, and Garmisch for two weeks. Can't wait!

Thanks for putting out this great itinerary! I agree that rothenburg can be touristy, but it's still a must-see. Especially in the off-peak season. Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen are great bases to explore the surrounding area. I am so thankful that you put out this outstanding content. Keep up the great work. Love your website.

I used to grow up and live in Munich and I have been to most of the places in your video. The video highlights some of the great day trips and overnight trips from Munich as a base. Thanks for this great video.

We are flying in June and planning on staying eight days plus two travel days. I’m encouraging my wife that we get used to the time change before we get there. This couldn’t have come at a better time.

Great video! I’m heading to Munich in April and can’t freaking wait!

I'll be in Bavaria in July and this has really helped me narrow down what I want to do and how much I have time for. Thank you! (Then I watched your Gateway to the Dolomites videos and I'm wishing I had time to do that too!)

Great and honest video. I lived for 15 years in the Munich area and even I could learn some interesting suggestions from this video.

Double thumbs ups for 1.) going to Salzburg and never once mentioning "The Sound of Music" and 2.) agreeing Rothenburg is a "tourist trap." Returning for three weeks in September! Thanks for the great information.

I love this! Thanks so much! I want to visit both Munich & Salzburg but really want to spend time in the smaller places in Bavaria! I so appreciate the recommendations to skip some things that often fall on these lists!

There are a lot of Americans who visit this beautiful part of Germany and are fascinated, and now yes want to stay here forever. One can understand why.

Great series of Videos and very helpful. My family toured Bavaria in June 2023 and stayed at a VRBO in Hausham (@45 minutes south of Munich) great location if you have a car, as you have quick access to the Autobahn and can easily go anywhere in Bavaria. We hit most of the Alpine Lakes in the region and the little villages throughout the area.

Looks amazing. I lived in Augsburg, miss everything about Germany and booked to stay in Salzburg too.

Looks like a great adventure 😊

Really great videos of a beautiful area. Thanks to both of you.

Thank you for the videos! I've marked some places we'd like to go when in and around Munich. I may take you up on the consult! Cheers from Alberta, Canada.

I love this region!! There are lots of forests amd nature!! Amazing!! ❤❤❤

Thanks for the video, has given me some great ideas for day trips when I visit in early September, only difference is I‘ll be making Salzburg my base for the first week and Munich my base for the second week.

So glad I found your channel! Since my last name is Keller, and love Hofbrau dark, I’ll definitely have to check out the Hobraukeller. My parents took my brother and me along in 1969 and we stayed at a hotel on a lake at the bottom of the Zugspitze, which was absolutely magical. Of course, back then, with the dollar riding high, we were able to stay at the hotel for incredibly cheap ($10, if I’m not mistaken). I won’t be going for about three or four years, when I retire. I love hiking and will go to many of your suggestions. It always amazes me how little effort it takes to leave the crowds behind, if you’re willing to do a little walking/hiking. Thanks again!

If my plans come to fruition, I will be traveling to Germany, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, and South Tirol in August-September this year. Part of the time I will be escorting my daughter on her first trip to Europe. This video in particular of all the ones I have watched gave me some great ideas for a firs trip to Bavaria for anyone. I was last in Munich in 2019 before the COVID-19 outbreak. I spent a great deal of time in Vienna then, and even made it to Kyiv, Ukraine,

There are so many places, trails, cabins, crossroad villages, and more that the typical tourist won't come across. Explore without a destination and you will be surprised at what you find. Ask the waiter at the little cafe about hiking trails or where he/she likes to go to chill out. Bavarians love to chill out after a good hike or walk. Your adventure awaits you at the next turn in the road. It is nearly impossible to get lost because the roads are named by where they go to. If it says Munchener Strasse then it's going to Munich. Maybe the other direction but at least you have a 50/50 chance. Seriously. Be nice, be polite, smile, ask questions, don't tell them all that you know about WW2 or how to run their country and you'll really enjoy your visit to Germany.

Ah guys, what are you doing to us?!! Are we gonna go for 2 days, maybe 3 days? Well now we need at least 8 to do this itinerary!!! And probably more!!! Haidhausen looks beautiful, it was our fav Christmas market…that beer garden…perfect! That food…even more perfect! Now, Salzburg, another place we love and need to see again. That graveyard with the freaky statues is a bit weird but they both look great. A beer from the schloss, amazing. Despite having been to Salzburg a few times, we haven’t done the Mozart museum, we want to though. Not sure if we’ve seen your Salzburg guide, need to go back to that. Those lakes (not gonna try and spell it) look stunning. A beer and cake next to that lake, ah guys!!!!! Yep, we love German beer, we need to go to that brewery!!! That forest walk looks really nice and the views just amazing. Ok, day 3, herrsching, that’s the one we watched the other day isn’t it? We would walk it! The food and beer look fab. I think this is our fav lake so far!! Neuschwanstein…now we’re talking. We know your feelings about this place and agree with you on the whole, but like we said when we met up, the story is fascinating and we can’t wait to do this vlog. We’ve been 3 times and loved every time, staying close by twice. We preferred the hohenschwangau tour, it was brilliant and although we only only spent a little time in Fussen but need to go again. We’ve just been talking about it and our perfect time there would be stay in schwangau out of season, get up early, walk to the bridge then catch the first tour of the day, then spend the rest of the day walking round the lake…that’s what we did. Rothenburg is another place on our list…hang on, ALL YEAR Christmas shop? Ok, I’m in! The town looks like a panto set! Zugspitze…this has been on our list for ages. This place looks perfect. Brilliant tip about the train ticket!! We would love this gondola, we wanna go in winter and summer! Garmish Parky thingy…..another place on our bucket list. Loving the ruins, we loved your video on this. That river side walk is where we really want to go….ah, passing back over…and beer gardens….damn!!!! Mittenwald…not as familiar with this one, but have heard of it. What a stunning place. That hike looks great and the food reward looks amazing but think we’ll take the other walk. Day 8, ok, we love castles, this looks amazing. World of castles, very cool!!! We have some pretty damn stunning castles here in wales, equally as old, equally as intact but these views are pretty spectacular. Ok, that bridge crossing looks a bit hairy but fun! Ok both, we loved that. In fact this is one of our favourite videos we have watched in ages!!!! Top work. We so need to come back to Munich and visit some of these places!!! Amazing! X

Love your videos! I was curious if you know anything about doing these day trips and hikes with a dog? I will be in Munich later this week and want to do some of these trips with my dog.

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Thanks for your videos. They've been a great help in my planning a July trip to Munich, Berchtesgaden and Garmisch. Was wondering if it's possible to visit Werdenfels Castle and Partnachklamm Gorge in the same day? I will have a car to travel between the two but not sure of time needed to fully explore/enjoy both.

Fantastic video,very helpful will watch more,only been to five big cities few day each in circle, ready to do villages,please introduce train system how to use

I love visiting the graveyards in Salzburg, especially the graveyard where Mozart's parents are buried I have been to Rothenburg a few times, last time I took my kids to the Medieval Torture Museum, just to show them what could happen if they are not good kids. LOL (BTW, each visit to Rothenburg has become more touristy than the previous time, except for the museum. It was not overcrowded at all)

really enjoyed this. i have lived abroad, and im more interested in life in another place, not just seeing cool stuff.

I’m originally from Germany, now live in the US and im going back this spring. I’m surprised how close our itineraries are - im going to Salzburg on my second day as well and after Munich heading to Garmisch (: Then visiting family in Baden-Württemberg and visiting Rothenburg from there.

phil, you probably know already, and deana as well. mentioning altmühltal, i just send a post to the black forest family. they are in my challenge, which channel is my most favorite. back to the topic. if you like kayaking, like i do, or going with the bike along the "donau". up to vienna or even further, i highly recommend. this topic is not brought up in youtube so far, so maybe you just jump in? and you will get followers, especially from the netherlands, they love the so called "donauradweg". hugs, great job.

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nice

If you want to go to Herrsching by S-Bahn you have to take the line S8 not the S6 :)

You’re right about Rothenburg not working as a day trip. More do-able from Nürnberg. But R. is def worth a night, where possible.

Great video! How would your itinerary change for winter? I’m hoping to visit the region in December to experience Christmas markets, but not just Christmas markets. Looking for indoor sights as well. Considering Innsbruck and Seefeld area. Thoughts?

The hofferbrau an winerplaz is great and I think you have small crismars market there...but for me the best place in Munich was wirtshaus in der au

Love this video....we are going to use this as a plan for our summer holiday 2024......do u recommend getting some sort of weekly train ticket or just buy daily..? Alao,any ideas for where to stay..air bnb or hotels..? Cheers.

We don’t drink beer so what else is there to look forward to food wise? Also we don’t do starchy food or sauces.

This is the itinerary I'm following, what do you think of doing the hike in Tegernsee with a 3 year old child? Can you use a stroller (aka Pram) on these trails?

Excellent video. It seems Germans have Beer Gardens like Americans have gift shops.

hey mate what kind of black boots are you sporting there in the winter?

Hey mate, my brother and i are going to switzerland, austria and germany in july/august, is there anywhere we still might be able to see and visit snow? I've heard zillertal might have snow all year round, do you know any places that for sure have snow or is it a bit too hot at that time? Also side note, I'm trying to learn german for this trip, but since I'm learning hoch deutsch but mainly travelling along the south and into austria, is it going to even be that useful? I'm gonna continue regardless but it would be a bit disappointing if i had to talk english the whole time lol

I've done these towns but would never take a train daily from Munich. I spend a two or three days and nights at each stop. I feel more like a local than a Disney ticket holder.

can reginal bayern day ticket for 2-5 persons travel from munich to salzburg and back in 1 dat?

Planning ongoing next may. It's A. It's not so much the towns it's how you get there. Do you need to rent a car? Can you take a train? What about a bus that's what i'm trying to figure out. One question if you want to visit bavaria and the alps munich where you want to fly into

Herren und Frauen Chiemsee are a choice also but albiet a bit busier

What if we don’t drink beer? Will there be enough places and things to do? We are in our 70’s so we need a gentle trip.

They are called Bavarian Alps

no mention of chiemsee and king ludwig's other palace. herrenchiemsee

We are planning a December trip. Would you recommend the same 8 day trip stops in the winter?

If I was flying into Salzburg but don’t want to stay there is there a town with mountains but restaurants etc that is easy to get to from airport ?

Is the trip totally able to be done only via train? and no car?

Uh, they are called the Bavarian Alps and are populated by a very special subset of Germans, Bavarians.

"Where to stay"? I thought you were going to give hotel names prices etc?🤔😅

nice but too much promotion 😂 ‚Business‘ 🤪

Hofbrauhaus-what a let down for this tourist

Another beer advert! I do not drink alcohol! Shut up about beer!!!

If this guy were as well integrated as he claims, he wouldn'n't be pronouncing "Hofbräu " as Hoffbräu Basic nowledge of how you pronounce the single vs double consonant.