Eastern Europe

Just came back from a super long holiday in KL and then Mid/Eastern Europe. Took a 13 hour plane ride to Amsterdam and transit another 2 hours to Vienna, tired and shagged but continued with the tour once touched down... visited the shronbrunn palace or how u spell it, that was super hot without air con nor opened windows... and the ground outside was all sand and gravels. What a palace... The only thing nice was the rose garden.



Stopped by Bratislava and then went to Budapest. It's made up of Buda and Pest, whereby Buda is the upper class and Pest is the lower class. Went to the one of the many town squares in Europe and then one of the many churches, St. Matthias Church.





Took a cruise down Danube in a boat that looks a little cui.



Scenic view on the cruise though.



Went through tatra mountains from budapest (hungary) to krakow in poland; full day drive from 8 to 6 lol. Visited Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, where the Jews were bathed and then poison bathed till death.



Town square and church again. And Jagiellonian University. Then my favourite attraction of all, the Wielczka Salt Mine preserved by UNESCO for 800 years. I thought mines were hot, but this mine was at 18 degrees with strong undercurrent winds blowing.

My favourite picture. Of course i scrapped some salt to taste, and it's damn good.



The entire place is salt. Even the floor are salt tiles.



Then it was Prague in Czech. Went to the 1000 year-old Prague Castle, whereby St Vitus Cathedral is inside.

Back



and front



and door



It's too huge to be taken up to down >< and the insides are beautiful. The tinted glass.



And PAINTED glass



Town square again. Charles bridge, made a wish.



Then travelled 2 hours odd to the outskirts, a protected place by UNESCO called Cesky Krumlov, it has a natural meander, studied from geog, that will become an ox-bow lake due to erosion of the river banks in years to come.



Actually the water looks like this HAHA.



They did some stuff to preserve the meander on the bottom right and picture is taken from the castle itself right on top of the hill.



Drove down to Dresden to the next most beautiful place, the Bastei in Saxon Switzerland. It's a karst topography, learned in geog again lol.



Standing on the Bastei bridge built on rocks. Granite rocks eroded by weather, horizontally jointed.



In Berlin thereafter, visited some random buildings. And then the 3% of the Berlin Wall that's left now. Various artists left their works on the wall as to protect the wall from being demolished.



Asians are being discriminated in Europe, and it's so blatant. Ggrrr.