After our time in Prague, we boarded a bus for along ride to Passau, Germany, where we boarded out boat. Arriving a little before dinner, we received out orientation and unpacked in our rooms. We stayed in Passau at the dock the first night. The next morning, Duncan, Dave, and I took the “Hiking the Hills of Passau” walking tour, while everyone else took the normal walking tour of town. Our tour covered the same downtown (Old Town) area of Passau, but we also saw a monastery / church overlooking Passau from one side of town and the castle on the other side of the river. The tour was billed as “strenuous,” but it really wasn’t too bad except for the climb up the hill to the castle.
JJ, Karen, Betty, Candy, Greg, and Nicole get ready for their walking tour of Old Town Passau.A picture of Passau. We started the “hiking the hills” tour pretty early.The altar in the church / abbey / monastery overlooking Passau that was the starting point of our our.The group preparing to hike the hills. Viking combined us with a group from another Viking ship traveling the opposite direction along the Danube.The church that was our first stop.The cemetery for many of the priests and monks who had lived at the abbey.A view of Passau from the abbey.We’re walking, we’re walking…Oh, how artistic…A fountain in the middle of Passau.This is my kind of garden. This is what I call the “riot of color” look.Walking along the Danube toward the bridge to the castle.A good view along the wall of the castle. You can see how the styles changed over the hundreds of years of construction.Another portion of the castle.Passau from the castle. You can barely see our boat behind the vegetation.A building along our hiking route.
A portion of the castle.Dave, me, Duncan at an overlook on the hill we walked up to get to the castle.A view of Passau from the castle. In the distance, on the hill, you can see the abbey where we started our perigrination. The white line coming down from it and then turning to the left of the picture is the covered pilgrim’s way with 300+ steps.A partial view of the interior of the castle.Sitting on the sun deck as we departed from Passau: Duncan, Betty, Karen.In the afternoon, there was a demonstration in the lounge of how to make strudel.
Overnight we docked in Linz for our tours the next day.
