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You are looking at an alpine chough, flying overhead, just as we emerged from a “suprisingly” delicious lunch.
Not all “tourist venues with a view” serve bad food, and not all Bavarian restaurant fare is decidedly “meaty” and/or “stodgy”; our local trout, served very nearly atop the Jenner, was both lovely and light.
Comments closedThe featured image is a wide angle (24 mm) shot, taken from the summit of the Jenner (1874 metres ASL) in Berchtesgaden National Park.
Germany’s only alpine national park is a destination I would heartily recommend to almost anyone; even if you are neither “trekker” nor “mountain climber”.
It is a place where you can experience bona fide “alpine splendour” easily, safely, comfortably, with no risk of altitude sickness.
In order to reach the Jenner’s summit we only had to walk steeply for circa ten minutes; the Jennerbahn (cable car) had already whisked us most of the way up.
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As a newcomer to another nation and/or to a different kind of society or ecosystem, the surprises that await, almost inevitably, will prove a very “mixed bag”.
This post celebrates a very happy, beautiful surprise, recently experienced in Germany’s only alpine national park.
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Presumably, many of you have at some point stood on a skyscraper’s observation deck and marvelled at how very long is the “drop” to the streets below.
From the Sydney Tower’s “Eye”, it is 250 metres.
From the Melbourne Edge’s “Skydeck”, it is nearly 300 metres.
The Empire State Building’s top floor sits 373 metres above Manhattan’s streets.
This post’s featured image was taken from the summit of the Jenner (1874 metres ASL), looking down to the Königssee; the vertical “drop” to that lake’s surface exceeds the aforementioned “drops”, respectively, by more than five times, more than four times, and more than three times.
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The featured image, taken in Germany’s only alpine national park, shows something which would be “impossible” in any Australian national park…well, illegal… and highly unlikely.
Four dog-owners – and three dogs – are clearly visible, descending from the summit of the Jenner, in Berchtesgaden National Park.
To German eyes, the dogs’ presence would be entirely unremarkable.
(to anybody’s eyes, the view from the Jenner’s summit is stupendous…as you will see in #14 of this series)
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