跨年之旅 08/09 Europe trip part 4

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Day 5
After waking up, we made ourselves some breakfast and getting ready for a walking tour around Munich city! Unfortunately, our host Jeff wasn't feeling well that day, hence Dennea, Michael and us took off without him. Our tour guide that day was Aussie, a very interesting guide I must say, very humorous, the tour would had be much more fun and informative if there were not too many people and not too COLD. Nevertheless, we had fun. ( Aussie mentioned that Munich actually is not a city to be visited during winter, instead it is better to visit till Octoberfest in October (duh~). This is because most memorials in the old town are on the ground; during winter, all of them will be covered underneath the snow and nothing could be seen! Luckily, it still didn't snow when we were there.)

Our first stop is the Karlsplatz, aka Stachus, it is located at one of the 4 gates (north, east, south, west; I can't remember which one :P) leading into the old town.
After some introduction on the history of Munich, we continued our way to the old town and we stopped by this interesting church (the top right hand corner picture)(once again, I forgot the name of it =.=). The church was under renovation, it has 2 towers, the north and south, and the picture shows only the north?(south?whatever) one, which is a few cm taller?(shorter?whatever) than the other.

This church had a very interesting story behind during its construction, because a devil's help was asked in building it. In exchange, the devil requested the church shouldn't have any windows and the architect agreed. However, when the church was done, from inside standing right at the entrance (bottom left most picture), no windows can be seen really, but in fact, they are actually just blocked by rows of pillars. The devil felt cheated and got furious and hence he stumped on the ground of the church, leaving a foot print behind(bottom middle picture), U.S. size 12 as Aussie said >.< . (AY was curious and asked: devil wears shoes? Aussie overheard that and said: Devil wears Prada! LoL~)

Alright, let's move on, we were now back to the square where we came last night after shopping, now we got to see it in the day! We made it on time at 12 noon where the bell started to ring and 4 songs were being played continuously, furthermore, on top of the middle tower, there were live-size statues 'dancing' along with the song! Awesome!

A parking lot for dogs! :D FOUND ONLY IN MUNICH


After the songs were all played, we moved on and visited another church (dun ask me, once again, I don't know the name =.= ) and then we came to the beergarden! Munich, the capital of Bavarian state, is well known with its BEER!!! Octoberfest is the world famous event every year held here in Munich, where people will gather in the beergarden, and what do they do? They drink BEER of course! :D No water is to be allowed inside the garden! If you bring along a water bottle, please place it under tha table, not on top! When you are here, only enjoy the beer!!! and maybe some sausages too :) (Jeff told me he set his record during the Octoberfest when he drank 7-8 L of beer one day!!! O_O )


Next, we visited the memorials left during the WWII and Nazism time. (this is where all the memorials are all on the ground, hence if it snows, nothing could be seen!)


The walking tour ended here. We ( 4 of us, Dennea, Michael, and Thomas) continued our trip to the Olympic center!!!


We went back to the apartment approximately 6pm since we need to get ready for the PARTY to night!!! It was new year's eve!!! YES, we went to a club, a very BIG and COOL club – M-park, where buffet was served in the earlier part, and later on it was PARTY time!!! We danced our ass off!!! LoL~ there was even a airbrush tattoo station and of course we got one ourselves! :D When the clock hits 12am, all of us were already outside joining in the count-down fun and fireworks were lighted up! Everyone hugged each other and wished HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! :D Most people there thought we were japanese and tried to greet us in jap, whatever...LoL~ After that, let's continue to party!!!
(I am on clubstars.net! http://www.clubstars.net/pix/categories.php?cat_id=10197&page=17 )


We left at around 3am and collapsed straight...ZzZ
That's not the end...guess what? We managed to wake up the next morning at 9am and went to the Dachau concentration camp!!! On the New Year Day!!! We were so determined eh??? :P Here it comes:

Day 6
Dachau concentration camp I don't feel like elaborate too much on this, it is depressing! A brief one, this camp was the first camp built up during the Nazis time where initially anti-Nazis politician or activist were kept and later on Jewish, Gypsies and other minority races were kept too and hence the Auchswitz concentration camp (the biggest one) was built near Krakow, Poland (I visited too last year). A lot of mass assassination were carried out here...aiks!!! Depressing~


Anyway, later that day, we joined Jeff and Dennea for a Couchsurfers gathering at night in a restaurant where we stupidly ordered half a DUCK each, yes, half a DUCK each!!! omg...that was a disaster, we couldn't finish them and we took away ^.^ (we continued the feast on the train next day on the way to salzburg...)