ok on fri aftn i went to stuttgart again! cos on sat morning i was going with my stuttgart frens to konstanz, another part of germany where there was a nice lake and boat rides!
too bad we had gloomy skies again, and it was really cold! but the river was really nice!
the river cruises were not very cheap tho, so we did not take any.
there was this really nice hotel tho, and here’s a pic of all of us!!
instead we took a bus to this place called mainau island!
which had many many many flowers!!
this smiley flower thing below is made entirely of flowers and leaves! n its HUGE.
anyway for lunch, all 5 of us shared this huge ‘family thing’ meal cos it was the cheapest!
it contained 8 pork fillets, and 1kg of fries!!!
obviously we could not finish the fries and had to pack them heh. seriously unhealthy yeah.
after lunch, back to sightseeing! this peacock and the dwarf below is also made entirely out of flowers!!
here’s all of us playing around in the island!
pretty purple flowers!!! a whole wall of them!
here i am outside the butterfly house! they managed to make the environment really tropical, so it was really nice and warm for a little while.
feny and i on the nice seat in the butterfly house.
there was some beautiful rose garden!
more and more flowers!!! they have all kinds of roses and their flowers are huge too!
there was even one that smelt like bandung!!
n they had this hammock that was super comfortable!!
kinda didnt wanna get up after walking so much…
and as with all these nice parks, there were cute animals toO!
here we were able to feed and pet them, it costs only €0.20 to buy some food and feed them!!
we left konstanz on the same evening for our friend’s place in freiburg, where we all camped for the night!
the next morning, we went hiking! freiburg is in the region of the schwarzwald (blackforest), where it is said the blackforest cakes originated.
here’s all of us the next morning! before the start of the hike!
weather was quite good!!
this field marks the start of our hike! our favourite jumping shots heh.
a panorama i made of this field.
in front of some cosy little guesthouse/hotel we found along the way.
there were actually people staying around here! nice scenery and streams flowing, really cooL!
here’s us in the middle of the jungle!
me on the narrow trail.
seriously if we accidentally slipped n rolled down, i dont know wat would happen.
actually some parts were really too narrow we could not do anything else but watch our step so photos only on nice n easy to walk spots!!
along the way, where we stopped to eat sandwiches.
some nice views from high up!
at this point, it was already 1015m!!
ME at this spot! 2 more steps backward and its doomsday…
a group shot! in front of the railing this time, cos its safer.
i already stitched up a panorama of the awesome view from this point but the file is too big to be uploaded here!!
another nice scenic view of the surroundings from another high vantage point, with the road below!
the literally black forest behind us on the way down.
nearing the end of our hike, it started to rain! luckily most of us brought our brollys.
since we’re all used to the stupid fluctuating weather conditions 
at the end of the hike! back to ground level. bcos of the rain we walked super fast at the end!
tired but glad! we hiked from hinterzarten to himmelreich, and it was about 18km!!
according to the staff at the tourist info. n it took us a little less than 5hours!
finally after the calorie-burning afternoon, we treated ourselves to some nice desert!
this is some guest house (gasthaus) at himmelreich, a cosy little cafe/restaurant.
us in the warm place, resting our kaputt feet.
i had blackforest cake, duh and tea! and it was such a huge piece!
which definitely put my whole aftn of walking to waste! talk about burning fats.
we all had tons of fun! tho tiring but was a great experience!!
that night the stuttgarters went back home, so just me and the other guy from munich stayed over in freiburg at our fren’s place!
here’s us the next day, with very tired ankles, at the freiburg city centre.
thankfully for her, we managed to save on food and lodging for 2 nights!!
this is some vineyard!
these are some small waterways that run all through the altstadt (old city) of freiburg.
according to the legend, anyone who steps into it is destined to stay in freiburg all his life n marry a freiburger hahahah. wat nonsense stuff people come up with huh.
here’s us after climbing yet another tower to enjoy the sights of the city!!
seriously i think i hav super muscular legs by now. heh.
n in this schwarzwald region, besides being famous for the blackforest cakes, they are also known for producing lots of fruit-flavoured alcohol! especially kirschwasser (cherry water literally), which is some cherry flavored alcohol that they use in their deserts! n can be found quite easily in the shops all around the town!
in the evening, we took the carpool thing back to munich, listening to the german commentary of italy getting trashed by holland. hahahha. over here they are super patriotic so the cars hav german flags all over and the people are always wearing the flags and garlands all over the town!! its really FUN!
anyway the guy drove really slowly tho it was an Audi A4, around 130km/h, so it took about 4hrs! so we got back to munich only at 1am!!! even the earlier ones i took which were really small cars like ford or mazdas went up to 160!!
okie more exciting weekends coming up~
*sherms*
