Day 7: We drove from Berlin to Prague in a day filled with gorgeous scenery. Just look at this photo – it was an amazing view of the Bastei Bridge in the Saxon Switzerland National Park just outside of Dresden, Germany. The area of Northern Bohemia was some of the prettiest scenery I’ve seen in Europe – very green and lush. We followed the Elbe River through Germany and right up into Czech Republic without any problems.
In Dresden, we toured the Hygiene Museum. As kitschy as it sounds, it was pretty neat. The museum started in 1912 and is still going strong, though it was temporarily taken over by the Nazis and their racist ideology for a while. We saw exhibits on everything from how babies are born, to how old age effects the body. My favorite exhibit was one where you could wear various contraptions to simulate old age – sight and hearing loss, walking bent over, and shaky hands. I also found it interesting that children were encouraged to go through the museum. I don’t think all parents would be fans of some of the racy exhibits on sex or the disturbing examples of physical effects from various diseases. However, children seemed to really enjoy the interactive exhibits.
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Wow!
that museum sounds like fun!
(even if its a but much for north american standards)
Very cool picture! I bet you have/will see a ton of great scenary on your trip. Looking forward to seeing all your pictures! I wanted to go to Dresden when we went to Berlin, but never made it there. We also thought about going there when we went to Prague since it’s not too far, but once again didn’t make it there! You’ll have to let me know if the city is worth visiting in the future. One of my cousins who’s a German professor at Baylor taught at a college in Dresden for a few weeks last Summer, but we never made it there to visit her and her family.
Has that look… to beautiful to be real! Amazing.
Nice shot! Btw, the Bastei-Bridge (german: Basteibrücke) will be one possible desktop-background in the new german version of windows7.
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