I will be in Munich for 6 days, the first 4 days I will have friends with me and we have stuff planned to do and see in and around the city. The next 2 days I will be there by myself, so I was wondering if there were any small towns around Munich where I could take day trips to? Or alternatively I was considering going to Basel (Switzerland) for 2 days. Any suggestions are welcome.
Posted by
OP
chicago, il, usa
188 posts
We are going to Neuschwanstein Castle during the first 4 days and to Salzburg on the weekend. :)
Posted by
Salt Lake City
1539 posts
There are three towns north of Munich that I enjoy.
Regensburg is not small but its old inner city core, Altstadt, can be walked across in 15 minutes. It is 1.5 hours from Munich by regional trains and can be reached using the discounted Bayern-Ticket. It has sights including Roman ruins, a gothic cathedral, a middle age bridge over the Danube, a princess in a palace, etc. Its medieval buildings earned it the UNESCO World Heritage Designation.
Closer to Munich is Landshut with a very nice, old pedestrian zone, German's tallest brick church tower and a castle.
Closest to Munich is Freising with its Domberg (monastery on a hill) and the world's oldest active brewery, which is also a brewing school.
They all lie along the same train route. Regensburg is one of my favorite towns in Germany.
Regards, Gary
Posted by
Westside, RP, Germany
109 posts
I second the worlds oldest brewery (Weihenstephan) as a day trip.
Also, Garmisch-Partenkirchen or Zugspitze are close enough for a day trip.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19435 posts
Wherever you go for day trips around Munich (Füssen, Salzburg, etc), it will probably be as fast, or almost as fast, to use regional train. You and up to four co-travelers can go anywhere in Bavaria on regional trains, on/off, all day long, after midnight weekends, after 9 AM workdays, for €28, with a Bayern-Ticket.
A lot of people like to go to Rothenburg, but at 3½-4 hrs, one way, it better for an overnight trip. In about 2 hours, you can get to Nördlingen, another walled city on the Romantic Road. Nördlingen, Rothenburg's little sister, lacks a Christmas shop and a Crime and Punishment Museum (overly touristy traps, in my opinion), but it is another authentic walled town, with a Wehrgang you can walk on and an old church tower you can climb. Nördlingen sits in an ancient meteor impact crater, and it was on the walls of this crater that our Apollo astronauts trained. There is a museum dedicated to this crater in Nördlingen.
A couple of hours east of Munich, on the Salzach river, is Burghausen, which has an almost untouched, thousand year old castle.