garden national park which happens to  be germany's only alpine national park  

this is a place that i had been wanting to  visit ever since i learned of its existence  

and i knew sam would be happy with a quiet nature  escape especially when the scenery looks like this  

give us mountains forests and lakes any day of the  week and we're a happy couple we spent a total of  

three nights in this little slice of paradise and  we made the most of our time here with plenty of  

hikes around Berchtesgaden national park a  boat tour on the emerald waters of Königssee  

a cable car ride up yanner mountain plus we just  had fun befriending the local farm animals and  

enjoying rainy picnics with mountain views from  our balcony so as always we invite you to join us  

on this nature escape to the german alps hit that  subscribe button and let's jump into this video

good afternoon so we have just arrived at  our next destination we are in Berchtesgaden  

national park here in the southeast  corner of germany it's like this tiny  

little pocket that almost goes into austria  and yeah we're just surrounded by mountains  

it is gorgeous here we're about to  go out on our first hike of the day  

and sammy boy are you gonna put some clothes on  he's like wait wait a shirt might be appropriate

look at that he is clothed he is closed  hello are you excited to be going hiking  

i am and uh we're trying to sneak one  in before it's apparently gonna rain  

later in the afternoon so yeah  pumped please please don't rain

we stayed at a guest house called Alpenpension  Bergidyll that was about a 20-minute walk into  

town it was situated in a quiet neighborhood  where we were surrounded by mountains  

small farms and alpine style architecture  with lots of wood and flower baskets

so  

where have we arrived sam we apparently have  arrived at Königssee Germany did i pronounce that  

correctly i hope so the king's lake kings lake and  we are hiking too we're going to Malerwinkl yes  

yeah this is the easiest loop apparently there  are a number of different hiking trails we hope  

to do several of them and there's just so much to  do here like there's a cable car there's a boat  

trip there's multiple hiking options we're gonna  try to do as much as we can weather permitted yeah  

basically since it's our first afternoon here and  we're getting started a little later in the day  

we figured we would do the easiest hike available  and that's Malerwinkl so yeah we've already been  

walking for a while so we are 10 minutes away from  the lookout point that's awesome yeah it's for me  

this is the perfect temperature to be out it's  probably like what 12 13 14 degrees i'm a little  

bundled up nice i love it i actually like having  to wear a real shirt this is good but yeah we're  

getting some beautiful views here along the way  we can see the lake off on the right hand side  

the boats are going by tomorrow we're going to be  doing a boat tour hopefully the weather's clear  

we do have two full days after this just in case  

but yeah beautiful scenery all around  so painful so this is fantastic  

barely anyone here i know you know what i think  it's because we're doing our hike later in the day  

most people would have gone in the morning it's  true when we were walking into town most people  

were walking back towards their guest houses  yeah so yeah i mean if you are a hiker you would  

be doing your hikes in the morning no doubt  yes whenever we've gone on hiking trips we've  

done that it's just today of course we arrived  in the afternoon yeah and we've got a little  

look a split in the road fork in the road that's  what's called splitting the trail fork in the road  

if you're planning to visit on a day trip and  you only have time to do one short hike i would  

recommend Malerwinkl which means painter's  corner this trail starts on the north end  

of Königssee Germany just past the boat sheds  and it has several vantage points along the way  

some from above and others down by the water's  edge ethereal doesn't even begin to describe it

so there's the official lookout spot and then look  at this check this out guys then there is this wow  

just gotta keep walking on the same trail  and then you reach the benches and it's  

just beautiful imagine if we could actually see  the mountains you know i love it with the low  

hanging fog i feel like it adds some moodiness  to it and we can see the boats coming back from  

the excursion on the lake does it feel a little  bit like a mystery with the uh with the clouds  

is it what do you call the clouds shrouding  over the mountains yeah there we go

after the hike we went back into town and  found a lakeside beer garden for dinner  

asked my friend a beer i don't feel  like we really earned it because  

that was an easy hike but as a welcome to this  part of the country he's never breast enough

i'm laughing because you've managed to get  cheese on the hood of the lens oh no where  

is it it's okay are you serious oh no anyways  the things we do for the photos huh dinner time  

the two dishes that i'm sure you guys are very  familiar with at this point we got the keys of  

spatzle the noodles with cheese and crispy onions  on top we just can't help ourselves guys it's nice  

and golden that's just a classic dish here so good  and we're running out of time to have it so um um  

more noodles but with a mushroom cream sauce yep  we've ordered so much food recently i think this  

is pork i only understand part of the menu so  half the time i'm guessing food is always good

hello hello today's day two day two it's a little  bit rainy but we are still getting out there we're  

gonna go explore do some hiking right now we're  on a cable car yeah by the way greetings from a  

cable car greetings from the cable car we are  moving so we bought tickets to go up to mitten  

station 24 euros per person to go up and down um  and yeah apparently there's also a restaurant at  

this stop so we can potentially eat there if it's  open if not in the town we have lots of options  

and then there is a second cable car  you can take going even further up  

but today it's so like foggy like we have these  low hanging clouds i don't think we'd be able  

to see anything from the peak because we can't  even see the peak so we just opted for halfway  

up and i'm okay with that i'm looking forward to  the height we're gonna do yeah it seems like a  

compromise so yeah that is the update from the  cable car and we'll see you when we get there

so as you can see it wasn't  the most ideal day to go hiking  

but we only had a few days here and we didn't  want to miss out we hiked for about an hour  

with umbrellas in our icy hands and what kept  us going was the thought of reaching one of the  

alpine huts for a hot cup of coffee and some  cake but sadly they were not open that day

we were pretty hungry by the time we got down  the mountain so we went into a restaurant located  

not too far from yenapan which is the cable  car station this place had a nice cozy vibe  

i got their gristle which is a potato  bacon onion fry up served with an  

egg on top it's a hearty dish that's  meant to use up your sundae leftovers  

and meanwhile sam got the schnitzel  stuffed with cheese and a side of fries  

juno i'm kunigzee has lots of random  little trails that go through farmland  

so that afternoon we enjoyed a little walk through  

the outskirts of town and met a whole  bunch of farm animals along the way

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we've made friends with the world's  friendliest dog this is cleo say hi  

it's so sweet it was our welcoming committee  when we first came here and cleo likes to do  

pauses out sometimes huh pause these out  yeah not right now or should you go should  

you're the sweetest dog treating ourselves to a  romantic balcony picnic for two yeah we sure are  

so we ended up instead of going out for dinner  we went to the grocery store we picked up some  

italian wine primitivo from julia and we got  some nice little snacks these are quite some herb  

i know what do you call them paprika there's some  healthy chips paprika well i don't know if chips  

are healthy but we'll go with that if it makes you  feel better and then some crunchy peas sweet chili  

powder produce wine and wine and the cups  that were provided and guys i don't know  

if you can see this but come check this out  will you track me over here here's my spots  

guys we have finally got a view of the  snow-capped mountains that's what we came to see  

and they were covered in clouds up until now but  you can see them now what do you think beautiful  

beautiful huh we're gonna use the zoom to  properly show you exactly right up there

the next day was our big excursion day during  the famous boat trip of Schönau am Königssee  

we decided to go after lunch once the rains had  eased a bit in the meantime nothing like some hot  

soup and a bowl of pasta on a cold rainy day and  apple strudel 2 because this is germany after all  

this is us being our most strategic weather-wise  because it is raining today yes but it appears  

from three to five o'clock there's a 30 to 40  percent chance of precipitation so it could  

be a bit dry and so we delayed our outing  we're gonna go at like 9 10 in the morning  

hike all day we're like no let's  not go out and get completely soaked  

just wait a little bit longer have lunch  first go do the boat ride and hopefully  

get a little bit of dry hiking in so we'll see  if that holds true or not may or may not work

after lunch we bought our  tickets right on the spot  

and we're able to get on the next departure out  

but if you're visiting during high season you may  want to do so in advance as it can get very busy

the journey itself was stunning it was early fall  so there were some peeps of orange and gold in  

between the evergreens and the low-hanging  clouds just added to the magic of the place  

perhaps the most exciting stop of all  was at the echo wall here one of the  

crew members pulled out the flugelhorn  to demonstrate the echo that bounces back

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we then got off at saint Bartholomä  which is a catholic pilgrimage church  

it is named after saint Bartholomä the apostle  the patron saint of alpine farmers and dairy men  

the church is built in the baroque  style and has a red onion domed roof  

unfortunately the church was not  open to visitors because corona times  

so we can't show you the interior but we did  enjoy a nice walk in the surrounding area

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hello hello we were on the boat for a while we're  on the boat now we are off the boat we got off at  

the very first stop Bartholomä yeah that's where  you have the the little chapel which is closed  

at the moment unfortunately we can't go in but  there's a beautiful like 30 minute trail oh it's  

just lovely yeah you know what not too many  people are actually doing that it seems most  

people are just clustered around the restaurant  and around i don't blame them it is cold and wet  

so they may be you know eating or getting some  sustenance tea and cake tea and cake but um  

we're enjoying the trail yeah what a beautiful  ride the nice thing is it's an electric boat  

it's been that way since the 89 1989 so a long  time they're doing that to obviously protect the  

environment here it's a pristine national park  and i i love that the other thing that was super  

cool was just how slow the ride was i don't  think i've ever been on a boat ride that slow  

just to take everything in and also my  favorite part was when they played the trumpet  

in front of the echo wall and like every note he  plays essentially bounces back to us yeah that  

was super cool yeah he he did well too he made  some good good money 10 euro bills were in that  

we tipped them as well of course but uh  yeah so this is amazing so this is even  

the main stop we're doing we decided to  get off here though because it's halfway  

so what we're gonna do is complete this walk  yes hop back on the boat go visit the last stop  

where we'll do some hiking and then we'll take the  boat ride back into town sounds good that's good

hello we are going to make our souvenir penny  but you actually need five cents to create it  

is it just a euro and five cents or is it  created on this that's what we're wondering  

no they make it on the five cent coin think  so yeah well we'll find out we'll find out  

it was really hard to find this by the  way we had to take through in the face  

these are rare twenty we had a one we  had a two euro hard to find this one

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isn't that beautiful though look at this

we then hop back on the boat and continue the  journey towards Salet which is the last stop at  

the end of the lake from this point there's a  secondary lake you can hike to called Obersee

the color of the water at this lake  was something out of this world  

it shifted from turquoise to  emerald even on the greatest of days  

and that contrasted with the early  autumn foliage in the most beautiful way  

i felt like we had stumbled into a secret fjord  with towering rock walls on either side and then  

there was water cascading down the mountains  and that thick cloud coverage that looked like  

a blanket shielding this paradise from the rest of  the world i'll be the first to admit that i don't  

like being outdoors when it's cold and wet but  i couldn't even complain with scenery like this

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little goatees how are you all doing this fine  morning well good morning good morning guys good  

morning guys our time in Berchtesgaden has sadly  come to an end we are down to our last few hours