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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

If you're looking for a unique experience that transcends standard sightseeing, be sure to include Oberammergau Passion Play in the heart of the bewitching Bavarian Alps in your 2010 travel plans.

The play is the story of Christ, but even those of you who aren’t religious will enjoy this admirable rarity. The play attracts a worldwide audience when it is put on every ten years by the inhabitants of the tiny, picturesque village of Oberammergau, who vowed to re-enact the story when they survived the plague in 1633. Read on for more information on the play, and lists of our tours which include this extraordinary event in their unbeatable itineraries.

At this time many packages are sold out. However if your dates are flexible, you should still be able to book a vacation including the Passion Play.  Call 800-942-3301 to speak to a tour specialist.

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

If you're looking for a unique experience that transcends standard sightseeing, be sure to include Oberammergau Passion Play in the heart of the bewitching Bavarian Alps in your 2010 travel plans.

The play is the story of Christ, but even those of you who aren’t religious will enjoy this admirable rarity. The play attracts a worldwide audience when it is put on every ten years by the inhabitants of the tiny, picturesque village of Oberammergau, who vowed to re-enact the story when they survived the plague in 1633. Read on for more information on the play, and lists of our Passion Play tours which include this extraordinary event in their unbeatable itineraries.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Getting to Oberammergau Germany by train:

• Travelling from Munich
  Every hour with the regional railway, direction Mittenwald / Innsbruck, as far as Murnau, there is a connection to the regional train to Oberammergau.
  Duration of ride: 1 h 50 mins
• Travelling from Innsbruck
  Every hour from 11.00 am to 05.00 pm (otherwise every two hours) by regional express in the direction of Munich as far as Murnau, there is a connection to the regional train to Oberammergau.
  Duration of ride: about 2 h 50 mins

Regional train Murnau-Oberammergau:
The Ammer Valley Railway, built in 1900, which branches off the Munich to Innsbruck line at Murnau, takes you to our destination. This railway track is considered by many to be the most beautiful in Germany, and for good reason: it winds its leisurely way through quiet villages and lush meadows, passes beside unspoilt moors and again and again opens up views of the mountain skyline of “Werdenfelser Land”.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Here are the typical items you can enjoy each morning in Oberammergau for breakfast:  Butter, Milk, Cheese, Yogurt, Honey and Baked Goods.  Whether cheese snacks with original “Ethnic Ammergauers” or cheese straws with beer cheese from the Ettal cheese dairy – the bakers onsite will spoil you with regional specialities and turn snack time into an experience every time.

The cheese is from the Ettal Working Cheese Dairy. Here you can watch the production process of the mil to the golden yellow cheese through glass windows.  The Ettalers have imported the cheesemaker from the Allgäu as good cheese is always the consequence of the craftsmanship of the “master” and the product of his ideas. And the man certainly has them: A wild garlic cheese or the beer cheese, very tasty! And as in the end you just have to have a taste, in the dairy there is a little café where you can still buy at fair prices.

Ettal Monastery:  The Ettal monastery liqueur has well-nigh magical powers they say. Insiders just talk about the yellow, the red, the green and the brown.
The yellow has the appearance of honey and saffron, the red the full taste of the bilberry and that at only 25% vol.

The green has an aromatic fragrance because of its 40 herbs (recipe is kept in absolute secrecy!) and the brown is bitters: refined and classy. 45% vol, it cleans its way through. Then there is the semi-sweet hops with the aroma of Hallertau hops and the clear. No sugar, spicy and bitter.

What does you good on the inside also helps on the outside. Arnica and mountain pine, embrocations from the skilful hands of the monks revive tired muscles. The multi-skilled of Ettal have also gone into another area - the realm of perfumes. Under the generic term Bonus Odor there are two ladies’ and two gentlemen’s perfumes!

A visit into the kingdom of Frater Vitalis is very enlightening, it is just the herbal recipe that he will still not give away!

Information obtained from the Official Passion Play website.

Monday, October 19, 2009

It owes its name to the murals (frescos) on the garden side of the house showing Pilate condemning Jesus to death.

The "Living Workstudio" with Crafts Shop: you can watch carvers, glass painting artists, potters and many other craftsmen at work.

"Worlds Behind Glass": Oberammergau Museum's collection of verre églomisé works, one of the largest collections in Europe.