munchen land

time to recap our visit to munich! we arrived on tuesday and had a great time. munich just feels like a cool city, or maybe thats because the people were dressed so hip...it was like walking through the sartorialist.





we had dinner the first night in the hofbrauhaus, the most famous beer hall in the world. watch out for a separate post with details on that!





day two was busy. we spent the morning at the deutsches museum, a huge collection (more than 10 km of displays) on everything technology. i learned all about air and sea travel, textiles, agriculture, trains, etc. etc. we saw the original german u-boat from wwI and learned how they blasted out tunnels for the speed trains. nothing like a museum to show you how LITTLE you know about the world.





from there we hopped a train to dachau, a surprisingly cute city home to the gruesome first nazi concentration camp. we signed in for our english-language tour and followed our cool british guide through all of the displays and memorials.



i have had a big interest in world war II from an early age, so i was pretty excited to see this place firsthand. i felt prepared going in that i knew what to expect, so i wasn't very shaken up by anything. it was, of course, disturbing to see up close the tiny barracks where they squeezed people together to sleep, the shower room where they tortured prisoners, the roll call square where everyone lined up each day to wait for their assignments. it left me pondering how humans can be so cruel and horrible to each other...especially when things somewhat like this still go on today.





we also visited the crematorium, a place i did NOT like at all. it was right next to the execution wall where prisoners were shot. definitely a bad aura around there...couldnt get away from it fast enough.





by the time our three-hour tour was over i was ready to go. dont get me wrong, it was all very interesting and educational, but im not really one for dwelling on depressing subjects for such a long time. im glad i went and im definitely affected by it, but i am happy to be alive and to move forward.