My last day in Munich, I went up into this tower and took some panoramic photos of the city.

This is one of the famous clock towers.

The Maypole. The Germans guard these things like the keys to the city. If another city can manage to steal one of these, the "victim" city has to buy it back with either money or beer. Once the pole is back each city throws a party. Pretty awesome. Now a days people steal these monster poles with firetrucks and helicopters.

Germany was really awesome. I loved the pace of life in Munich. We were very fortunate to be staying in such a nice house on a quite part of town. The rail system here is excellent so it was very easy to get to the center and back. We walked around Munich mostly looking for good food and drinks to try but also spent some time seeing some historic sights. We went on a really awesome bike tour. There is much history in Munich so it was nice to take a guided tour. The tour went through Munich showing many historic towers and churches including the Town Hall building and this famous church. The tour also stopped at the Englischer Garten so we got to eat at the Chinese Tower bier garden. There were also people surfing this river in the middle of the park very cool. I got more flags to add to the collection, a German flag and a Bavarian flag. They sell really cool beer mugs and coo coo clocks that have impressive craftsmanship, but they are all expensive. The food in Munich was amazing though, check out this German meal I ate. Unfortunately, learning the German language was been very difficult for me, but maybe it will get easier over time. I loved staying in Germany this time around and am excited to come back for Oktoberfest.

Munich's Town Hall -Marienplatz

Famous Catholic Church

Dachau concentration camp

This was really intense to see. I was glad I got to travel here to experience this. Walking around you could just feel pain that occurred there. There were hundreds of rocks placed all over Dachau representing visitors paying respect. Most of the barracks had been disassembled but we got to go into one showing where prisoners slept. This first picture demonstrates how packed each room was. Some barracks were meant to hold only a few hundred people but held thousands. Very heavy place to visit.