Friday, December 30, 2022

Koenigsburg Castle - France

After visiting Monkey Mountain, we drove up the steep incline to Koenigsburg Castle.  I love that we could see the castle from Monkey Mountain!

The view from the top was absolutely GORGEOUS.  There were mountains on all sides of us & the fog rolling in added beautiful layers of colors everywhere.  We parked in a parking area, then walked to the very top of the mountain where the castle was.









This was one of the biggest castles we've visited here in Europe.  It was a great one.  It was fun having The Bourne's with us (so my kids had "friends" to adventure with).


I was completely in love with the old doors & their locks.  They were GORGEOUS.










This was a fun castle because part of it was fully decorated inside, & part of it was old castle on the outside with fun courtyards spread out here & there.  The tour we did wove in & out of the castle.  I loved the change of scenery. . . walking inside for a bit, then a beautiful outdoor courtyard surrounded by old walls, then inside again, then outside again.  It made it a really fun tour.










The kids loved that this castle had an actual drawbridge with moat surrounding the castle.  It was pretty cool.






























The kids enjoyed the gift shop, as always, & all the friends had fun playing together.



After visiting the castle, Kevin found a geocache nearby so we hiked up the mountain a ways to see if we could find it.



We searched & searched & searched, but didn't find it at first.



Then the kids decided to scale the side of the mountain up to the castle walls. . . 
& (surprise), they found the geocache treasure!



Hiking back to our cars, we couldn't help but take a ton of pictures of the beauty of this area.  It was absolutely breathtaking.



 

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