A friend and I are planning to visit Bavaria for five days (mid-June) before heading to Florence, Italy for a wedding. I'm interested in seeing castles, quaint towns, nice scenery, etc. Any suggestions for what places we should see? Any must-see's?

Well, there are certainly plenty of castles and palaces in Bavaria. In Munich itself is the Nymphenburg Palace and the Residenz Palace.

"Mad King Ludwig", Ludwig II of Bavaria built a number of palaces worth seeing, Herrenchiemnsee, S.E. of Munich and the more famous Neuschwanstein and Linderhof, southwest of Munich. The ultimate medieval town in Germany is Rothenburg ob der Tauber, to the N.W. of Munich.

Also in Munich is a must-see (unless you don't drink beer), the beerhall and beergarden, the Hofbrau House.

A lot of good ideas here: http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...mp;tid=1358471

Best wishes,

Rex

you got some really good suggestions on your original post (which I topped for you a little while ago). If you click on your name you will find your previous thread . . . . .

Thank you everyone for you replies. This will help me with my planning. I probably will have more posts/questions later. Thanks again!

Hey Charmkins,

It so difficult trying to make specific recs when we have so little info about you.

I have been doing more than my usual research about Bavaria since I'll be in Bavaria from May 23rd to July 19th.

Most of my things will have to do with visiting out of the way towns and places. Most of my things will include adult beverages while taking in the beauty of Bavaria and the Alps down along the German and Austrian borders. I'll be concentrating on places that are not typical tourist places, in fact I want to go where most Americans don't go.

Here are a few of the web addresses to check on.

www.iphofen.de
www.bamberg.de
www.bierstrasse.de
www.berchtesgaden.de
www.rothenburg.de (Touristy, but I'll do this town, anyway.)
www.bahn.de (To figure out train schedules)
http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/11/index.html

All these web addresses are about places in Bavaria. There are plenty of others that many other people have posted.

Have fun. Maybe we'll see you on the Beer Street!!!

Forgot to give you another web page that might help you:

http://www.twenj.com/bavaria.htm

Have fun

Mark

Don't forget Bavaria Ben for good info about this region. It's a noncommercial website:
http://www.bensbauernhof.com/

I have a file on some itineraries from the late great Wes Fowler that I would be happy to forward you if you drop me an email.

I lived in Germany for two years and agree with the suggestion of Iphofen (an entirely walled city-with few tourists) and Bamburg. Would not miss Rothenburg(even though it IS touristy) or Dinkelsbuhl.These cities are all within the area of Franconia (upper Bavaria) Also,the area around Munich, including Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and the area of Fussen in southern Bavaria-scenery is breathtaking.

ttt

No offense, winnepeg, but Ed (of TwEnJ - - "Traveling with Ed'n'Julie&quot died 4 years ago, and Julie did not keep up twenj.com past 2002.

The bavaria page is available on the "Wayback Machine" at

http://web.archive.org/web/200105192...nj.com/bavaria

but it links onward, and

http://www.twenj.com/bavaria2 <i>et al.</i> are not there.