Oberammergau Passion Play Photo Blog
Tour: 2022 Oberammergau Passion Play
Tour Dates: August 16-26, 2022
Tour Director: Skip (& Karen) VanderSchaaf
Tour Director Highlights: Amazing views of God’s creative power. The Alps were beyond description, brilliant colors of blue sky, rivers and lakes, green pastures and trees, and white puffy clouds. Picturesque houses, flowers, farms, corn fields, sunflowers, cows, and church steeples around every turn. Cathedrals and castles, narrow streets, church bells, and friendly people made it easy to sense God’s presence in this serene place. Some of the highlights included a tour of Nuremberg where we viewed where Hitler paraded the troops and the trials were held, Passau with its colorful cobblestones leading to shops, and the Silent Night Memorial Chapel near Salzburg. We also enjoyed seeing where the Sound of Music was filmed. The Passion Play in Oberammergau will be a memory of a lifetime. We also toured Mad King Ludwig’s adult home of Neuschwanstein Castle, and tasted LOTS of cheese at Appenzeller Cheese Dairy. Before heading back to the USA we took a boat ride for an up close view of the Rhine Falls. This tour to Germany, Austria and Switzerland was amazing and the wonderful travelers are now our new friends.
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Part of the old wall in Nuremberg
Colorful buildings in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Town “Clock”
The home store for Kathe Wohlfahrt in Rothenburg
Christmas display inside the Kathe Wohlfahrt store in Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Iconic Rothenburg ob Tauber street picture
Nuremburg old city wall
Breakfast
Part on the Old City wall in Nuremburg
Dinner together
Yes, Pretzels (and water) in Nuremberg
Yes. . . it was THAT good!
Breakfast
Passau, Germany
Church organ in Passau, Germany. It’s 17,974 pipes make it the largest Catholic Church organ in the world, and the largest organ in Europe.
Cathedral in Passau, Germany
Silent night Chapel where Silent Night was first sung.
Salzburg garden
“Do-Re-Mi” steps from the Sound of Music.
Home of Mozart
Passau “street signs”
Some “Street Signs”
Mozart’s early home
Main plaza in Salzburg
Salzburg, Austria
Gazebo for the Sound of Music in Salzburg
Olympic Ski jump in Innsbruck, Austria
Our Hotel Sailer in Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria
TOP of he Innsbruck Ski Jump
Olympic Ski Jump at Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria
Innsbruck, Austria
Church at Ettal Monastery
Our Hotel In Bad Kohlgrub
Our beautiful hotel in Bad Kohlgurb near Oberammergau.
Beautifully decorated homes in Oberammergau
Inside a beautiful Cathedral
Passion Play
Waiting for the Passion Play to begin
Waiting for the Passion Play to begin in Oberammergau, Germany
Dinner at a hotel in Oberammergau
Dinner during break in the Passion PlayPassion Play Theater in Oberammergau.
Passion Play Theater in Oberammergau
Neuschwanstein Castle
Amazing view of Neuschwanstein Castle
Waiting to enter Neuschwanstein Castle
View form Neuschwanstein Castle
Austrian countryside
Breakfast
Breakfast outside on a beautiful morning.
Breakfast in Appenzell
School children going home foe lunch.
Appenzeller Cheese aging
Taking the cattle down from the mountain
Hand made “Milk bucket”
Turning a Milk Bucket in Appenzell, Germany
Milk bucket being examined
Finished Milk Buckets
Our Hotel in Appenzell, Switzerland.
The coach for the duration of our tour
Half timbered homes
Our coach driver Arno Trumner and Karen
Boat ride to see the Rhine Falls
At the Rhine Falls
Rhine Fall, Switzerland
Together at the Rhine Falls
Church bell tower across from our hotel room.
Heading home
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