Neu Schwanstein and Hohenschwangau Castles
Neu Schwanstein (NS) and Hohenschwangau (HS) are the castles of King Ludwig of Bavaria.

   

City of Füssen from our hotel window.
The castles are up on cliffs. You can walk or ride in the carraiges.
View of NS from down in the town of Hohenschwangau.
Hohenschwangau's original castle. We walked up to this one.
Town of Hohenschwangau half way up to its castle.
Another view of Hohenschwangau.
Path up to Hohenschwangau's Castle
Neu Schwanstein from the path up to Hohenschwangau's Castle.
The castle through the trees.
Few of the millions of stairs we climbed to finally get to the castle.
HS castle's courtyard.
Countryside from the castle.
Schwan means Swan. So there are swans EVERYWHERE! HS's garden.
View from HS castle.
NS from HS Castle. Ludwig sat at HS and watched NS being built
Now we're on the carraige going up to Neu Schwanstein. That's HS ...
You take the carriage's up and then walk up the last 10 minutes.
Neu Schwanstein on the walk up.
Countryside on the way up to NS.
The homestretch around to the main gate.
NS with the people for scale. It's AMAZING!
One view from NS
Another view from NS
The best view from NS
Another view
One of the many lakes in the Alps. This one is the Alpsee.
A swan family at the Alpsee.
Swans again
We were so mad we didn't bring our bathing suits. We wanted to swim.