A Fairytale Land

Neuschwanstein from Marienbruke bridge

And where is this place? It's located nearby Fussen at a small town called Hohenschwangau whereby the world famous Disney's Sleeping Beauty castle is inspired. There are two castles, one which King Ludwig II grown up in and another castle where he spend quite a fortune to built on based on his favourite opera singer, Wagner called the Neuschwanstein. We are not allowed to take any photos inside the castle and hence just pictures on the exterior. The whole place looks more like a fairytale out from the Disney's animated world where princes and princesses meet and live happily after.

To reach the castle, one could take a local train from Munich and stopped by a town called Fussen. From there, take bus no 73 or 78 (if unsure, just follow the tourist crowd) to the castles. Visiting of the castles start from Hohenschwangau and then Neuschwanstein which also called the Swan Castle or Mother of all castle. Personally, I think the name fits the castle very well with very fairytale like location. You can take either the horse carriage up the Swan Castle or a bus or a hike up. Since the horse carriage was quite expensive, we hike up. The fare to go in both castles was 17 euros back then (I went there in 2008, so the current fare might change).

the pretty lake


Hohenschwangau




view of Hohenschwangau from far








Marienbruke bridge

We walked from Hohenschwangau to Neuschwanstein and pass by the most beautiful lake ever. To sum it up, it's the most beautiful castle I ever seen before and although I had seen many castles subsequently, Neuschwanstein is and always will be the prettiest and fits the name of Mother of all castles!!

we were greeted by Neuschwanstein once we stepped out from the bus

looks familiar? it's the Sleeping beauty castle in Disneyland

Photos of the interior of the castle were taken from internet as phototaking is prohibited inside.

singer's hall


dining hall



dressing room


throne hall

Fireworks

Another video found inside my laptop, a fireworks scene captured from the Disney World Florida during the New Year. Enjoy!

New Year Countdown 2009 @ Disney Hollywood Studios

Just found this video from my laptop and decided to share it. We recorded the Mexican wave..wohooo..during the new year countdown at Disneyland back in 2009 while we were waiting for the show to start! If I am not mistaken, the show is Fantasia..

Disney World Epcot @ Florida

the famous golf ball in Epcot

I had a chance to visit Florida's Disney World during the New Year back in 2009. Yea..I know it's 2 years ago, havent really got the time to blog bout that but to visit Disneyworld, the largest of all Disneyland in the world during the new year's eve was surreal. Imagine thousands and thousands of people counting down together in the magical world. Besides that, we also wanted to escape the winter cold in Chicago which was in minus degrees..so instead of freezing my butt off in Illinois, would rather spend the winter holidays in the warm Florida.

I had also visited another Disneyland in California back in 2007 but that was only Magic Kingdom and Disney World in Florida has 4 parks altogether; Epcot, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. So this was like a second visit to Disneyland.

belle


snow white


mushu

We went to Hollywood Studios park on the first day while the second day, we went for 3 parks. Of the 3 parks, Disney Epcot is the place where you can see many familiar landmarks around the world such as St Mark's square in Venice, Trevi Fountain in Rome, Hampton court in UK and many more. We went around looking for the Disney mascot for the photos and had to fight with small kids to take photo with Mushu from Mulan, Belle from Beauty and the Beast and Snow White.

Hampton court


Germany


inside the Morrocon village






Venice


clock tower @ Venice


china




mexico