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
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- Colorful buildings in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
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- Town “Clock”
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- The home store for Kathe Wohlfahrt in Rothenburg
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- Christmas display inside the Kathe Wohlfahrt store in Rothenburg ob der Tauber
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- Iconic Rothenburg ob Tauber street picture
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- Nuremburg old city wall
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- Breakfast
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- Part on the Old City wall in Nuremburg
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- Dinner together
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- Yes, Pretzels (and water) in Nuremberg
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- Yes. . . it was THAT good!
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- Breakfast
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- Passau, Germany
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- 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.
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- Cathedral in Passau, Germany
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- Silent night Chapel where Silent Night was first sung.
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- Salzburg garden
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- “Do-Re-Mi” steps from the Sound of Music.
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- Home of Mozart
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- Passau “street signs”
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- Some “Street Signs”
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- Mozart’s early home
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- Main plaza in Salzburg
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- Salzburg, Austria
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- Gazebo for the Sound of Music in Salzburg
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- Olympic Ski jump in Innsbruck, Austria
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- Our Hotel Sailer in Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria
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- TOP of he Innsbruck Ski Jump
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- Olympic Ski Jump at Innsbruck
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- Innsbruck, Austria
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- Innsbruck, Austria
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- Church at Ettal Monastery
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- Our Hotel In Bad Kohlgrub
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- Our beautiful hotel in Bad Kohlgurb near Oberammergau.
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- Beautifully decorated homes in Oberammergau
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- Inside a beautiful Cathedral
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- Passion Play
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- Waiting for the Passion Play to begin
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- Waiting for the Passion Play to begin in Oberammergau, Germany
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- Dinner at a hotel in Oberammergau
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- Dinner during break in the Passion PlayPassion Play Theater in Oberammergau.
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- Passion Play Theater in Oberammergau
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- Neuschwanstein Castle
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- Amazing view of Neuschwanstein Castle
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- Waiting to enter Neuschwanstein Castle
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- View form Neuschwanstein Castle
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- Austrian countryside
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- Breakfast
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- Breakfast outside on a beautiful morning.
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- Breakfast in Appenzell
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- School children going home foe lunch.
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- Appenzeller Cheese aging
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- Taking the cattle down from the mountain
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- Hand made “Milk bucket”
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- Turning a Milk Bucket in Appenzell, Germany
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- Milk bucket being examined
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- Finished Milk Buckets
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- Our Hotel in Appenzell, Switzerland.
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- The coach for the duration of our tour
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- Half timbered homes
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- Our coach driver Arno Trumner and Karen
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- Boat ride to see the Rhine Falls
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- At the Rhine Falls
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- Rhine Fall, Switzerland
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- Together at the Rhine Falls
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- Church bell tower across from our hotel room.
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- Heading home
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