Planning a Trip to Bayern Region

thats the place where it all happens.. the most beautiful city in germany! interesting all year round but best time for a visit is definitely october! thats when the most famous and biggest beer festival worldwide is held, the oktoberfes t ! fun times..

A beer lovers paradise....steins that hold litres of beer..what more can you ask for? Each time I've traveled to Munich there has been a soccer match and despite the huge crowds in the trains, subway and streets I've had a great time...just a headache finding a hotel room. The best way to see Munich is by foot, there are organized tours or you can do it yourself.  Getting around the city by streetcar is also very easy and inexpensive. I'd avoid the Olympic park and BMW Museum, as they were a bit of a letdown and not very interesting. Definitely suggest visiting the Dachau camp outside the city and an easy train ride about 20 min.  Although difficult to see an eye opening experience and birds eye view to what happened in WW2 Favourite place to eat is the Ratzkeller, traditional German food that is totally delish.

I found that the best way to get to know Passau is to just take a walk from the train station all the way down to the end of the triangle, while making sure to take in the major sights (like the church organ that you have to see to believe). Passau is manageable in one day, even while taking the time to enjoy the incredible views across the river.

Visit Rothenburg at Christmas time - it's the best!

The best time to visit Garmisch Partenkirchen, for those who are not funs of winter sport, is summer. Something that should not be missed is Partnach Gorge. 20 min walk from the old Olympic Stadium there is a real wonder of nature.

www.the-tent.com it was the coolest place we stayed in Europe! easy internet cafes offer the cheapest internet we could find and there is a good supermarket near the train station. Really cool to do a walking tour around the city. And don't miss the HOFBRAUHAUS!!!

This place is EXPENSIVE
And when the store operators notice that you are a tourist - they bump the arbitrary pricing up. I was nearly conned by a photo-processing shop that wanted to charge me 40 euros to process one round of 27 photos from my camera.

Dachau is one of the many concentration camps that could be found in Germany during the World War II.
You can now see some museum like rooms with objects reminding the horrible tragedy that happened here, as long as movie projections, photos, etc.

play a round of crazy golf at the Judenberg. maybe you are even lucky enough to witness the famous "Ouzo-Open", which draws more and more spectators every year.

If you are in Munich and are looking for a place to eat you have to go to Prinz Mishkin. Outstanding taste of food. However remember it's vegetarian!

Watch out! Restaurants and Cafes in Munich close as early as 6pm and usually around 7pm! Whats left open are the Beer Halls (large pubs/bars)!

Munich is a beautiful city, especially if it's spring- or summertime. Then, of course, it's time to visit some of the numerous beer gardens of Munich. I can especially recommend the ones at the Wiener Platz in Haidhausen, which belongs to the Hofbräukeller and the Max-Emanuel beer garden in the Adalbertstreet, very close to the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Both of them lie rather central and are easily accesible by public transport. Although they are located amidst of Munich, you will be able to experience a fantastic atmosphere there. They are like recreative oases in the jungle of a large city. Once you are inside the garden, you can enjoy your "Maß" of beer and every Bavarian delicacy you can imagine. Needless to say, that you can meet nice and friendly people there - not only from Bavaria - but also from all over the world to make friends with.

Go to The Englischer Garten and have a beer or two:-)

Dachau, like Auschwitz or Birkenau, is a sobering and saddening experience beyond compare ... Dachau, I think, was the first concentration camp ... conveniently close to Munchen ... it is smaller than many other camps built later but this is where it started ... as you enter its gates you are frozen with shock and the true import of the holocaust sinks into you ... the 'systematic' nature of the atrocities is what shocks most and Dachau is a prime example... how could humans possibly do this to each other while still being able to live and enjoy otherwise normal lives ... there is a wonderful essay by George Steiner that talks of a concert hall in Munchen where, at the time, people could be sitting and enjoying Mozart while, at the same time, screams of people being put on trains for Dachau could be heard there... something about human nature that can aspire to beauty and life in the thick of misery and death ... and there is Chomsky's argument too that human atrocity is inherent, nothing new in it by way of time or geography, almost every nation across history has inflicted the grossest barbarism on others ... and though the signs at the camp read 'never again' ... globally, things continue, with a variety of atrocities, not just physical or political but also economic and social ...