First things first, I went back and fixed the very numerous typos in my Salzburg post, and added a short description and a couple pictures of my first ‘major’ encounter with the Middle Eastern refugees. I encountered my first Syrian, or random guy claiming to be Syrian literally day 1 in Berlin. The pictures are in the post titled ‘Jon’s Journey Throuh Austria’

Now since that’s settled… *Ahem* Today was lake day, there are 2 sort of nearby lakes, Hintersee (behind lake) and Königsee (king’s lake) both of which, like everything else are an amazing sight to behold, I’ll let the pictures describe the rest. First was to Hintersee, a 30 min bus ride from Berchtesgaden down winding narrow 1 lane wide roads that hold traffic going both ways. It’s literally only a one lane road, so we had to stop and wait for a car coming in the opposite direction to back into a dugout before we could continue at one point. The pictures will go into detail about how pretty it all was.

After getting back after a long hike all the way around Hintersee I went to the museum on a hill, the Haus der Berge (house of the mountain) a neat museum, mostly geared for children, but it explains in cool sections the 4 main enviroment types of the area of Berchtesgaden, water and lakes, forests and trees, grassy pastures, and rocky mountain areas. Its not a large museum by any means, but each section is built to look like the environment it covers.

After the Haus der Berge was a short busride to Königsee, a very long thin lake with famous and lonesome St. Bartholomä’s chapel hidden far far away around a bend in a remote section of the lake (on the shore), search for it in google maps and you’ll see what I mean. It was late in the day and it is a 45 minute boat ride to get to the chapel, I have big…high up plans for tomorrow, but I will see if I can get to the chapel later. It is pretty unique looking.

I went to a local old-timey restaurant for dinner and got some Käsespätzle (kays – a – shpetzle) cheese something. A traditional Swabian/Bavarian meal. Long story short its macaroni and cheese, but instead of noodles its puff balls. It would have been good were it not for the ridiculous amount of shreded green onions they put on it, though it was still decent even also with diced onions.

Though it didn’t rain at all today, the clouds were just miserable covering everything. Sooooooooo much of the surrounding mountains and beautiful cliffs and peaks are just a mass of white that blend into the sky. Extremely disappointing. The pictures only show a small portion of what is actually there.

I will try and post the status, experinces, likes, and dislikes and other non-attraction stuff soon. Like hostels, foods, problems anything. No time estimate, as I am quite busy.