Need suggestions on whether this trip is too much
want to fit in a night or at least a day trip to wolfsburg
but feel im pushing it
Day 1 arrive Amsterdam
Day 2 Amsterdam
Day 3 Amsterdam
Day 4 Amsterdam
Day 5 Train to berlin berlin @@ day trip to sachsenhausen during berlin stay
day 6 7 8 berlin
Day 9 train to nurenberg
day 10 train to salzburg
11 12 salzburg
day 13 open
Day 14 15 16 munich plus one day trip to fussen
Wolfsburg is on your rail-way with DB from Amsterdam to Berlin. Take some time from Amsterdam.
Nuremberg is short - take a day from Salzburg or the open day.
I'd advise more time for Nuremberg and less for Amsterdam, but it depends on what you're interested in.
I agree with less time in Amsterdam. So you have 16 days to work with? What time of year? Maybe a little more description who is traveling and what the interests are? You also may want to cut back on Salzburg??? Maybe add to Nurenburg- I don't think anything should be a one night stay unless its for flying purposes. Munich is great- do you have 3 full days there including Fussen?
2 people traveling age 57 and 47
interest in german history and nazi history
medium interest in museums
strong interest in movie history ie salzburg
https://museums.nuernberg.de/nuremberg-municipal-museums/
If you have an interest in Nazi/WW II history Nuremberg deserves a bit more time. If you schedule your visit on a weekend you can visit the actual Nuremberg Trials Courtroom, but it is still a courtroom so it is in use during the week.
I would cut about 2 days from Amsterdam (not my favorite) and add to Nuremberg and Salzburg. Or go to Hallstatt. Have not been to Berlin, but I understand there is much to do and see there.
Having spent more than 500 days a tourist in Europe, I put Berlin and Munich near the bottom of places worth visiting-- not as boring as Bern, but close. Amsterdam is only a little better (I've detailed the reasons why tees are not good tourist cities in previous posts, so I'm not going to repeat). The tourist strength of all three is museums, and you say that really isn't your thing.
Interest in Nazis suggests skipping Berlin because the Red Army all but wiped it off the face of the Earth in WWII. There is little of Nazi land left. Templehoff airport is the most interesting, but its status changes daily-- big push a few years ago to tare it down.
Munich has some Nazi history available, especially Dachau in the suburbs.
One day is plenty for Salzburg, so consider a Nazi day trip to Linz, essentially Hitler's home town, and the nearby Mauthausen Death Camp. Hitler & Speer were planning to make Linz the capital of the new Europe. They actually built two of their dream buildings in Linz which are rarely mentioned in guide books, and on the three river cruises we took that stopped at Linz, not one of the 6 guides we had for land tours knew about the Hitler buildings.
How to find Linz' Hitler/Speer buildings: walk down the main drag through the main town square toward the Danube. The two identical buildings separated by the street at the end of tow just before the street drops down to the river bank were built as Hitler's first monuments to his new world order.
On the way to Nuremberg, stop at Regensburg. Do not miss 1) the church opposite the cathedral on the square at the alter end of the cathedral and 2) the hot dog stand at the end of the bridge which has been serving Regensubergerwursts for more that 800 years (we prefer the more refined 600 year old restatement kitty cornered from the hot dog stand under the same management).
More time for the Salzkammergut.
