Visiting Neuschwanstein Castle

If you have visited Disney Land or Disney World, I'm sure you will remember your visual experience of the "Disney Castles". When you watch a movie that is produced by Disney, you see the animated fireworks around the castle.

The Castles at the Disney resorts were inspired from Neuschwanstein Castle in Southern Germany. For most people, visiting one of the Disney Resorts is one of the "big" family vacations they will plan for. Seeing the outside of the castle at one of the Disney Resorts is mildly comparable (visually speaking) to visiting the real Neuschwanstein Castle.

Although I will not be able to post in this blog everday, I hope you will learn to appreciate the value of this blog to encourage you to look at Vacation Travel with a new perspective. I hope you will see this as encouragement to dream then to turn those dreams into reality.

Getting back to Neuschwanstein Castle, I hope to inspire you to go and visit this castle (in Germany) just as Disney Land was inspired to bring it to us. The view of the castle from the outside is tremendous and inspiring although there are vast differences in appreciation for the "real" thing.

I have been fortunate enough to have visited Neuschwanstein Castle on several occasions. I wish the same for you as well even if it is to visit this magnificent castle just once! The last time I visited there was with my wife a year after we were married. This was in the summer of 1990. I want to share one memory with you that has little significance but something that really stuck in my mind. Here it is: the main bedroom had some very spectacular carved wood everywhere in this room. Four carpenters worked on all of the wood carvings which took them a total of 14 years to complete!


I couldn't pronounce Neuschwanstein Castle so I always referred to it as : King Ludwig II's Castle. Although I really have fond memories of visiting this castle, my favorite castle has always been Heidelberg Castle (also in Southern Germany)

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