Europa Park and the Black Forest
Europa Park is one of the biggest and best amusement
parks in Europe.
Many prefer it to Disneyland Paris
or Italy’s Gardaland. Every part of the park replicates
the scenery of a different European country, its
architecture, food, and music. Most importantly, it
features many great rides, including excellent and
unique roller coasters. Some call the park ‘Europe’s
Epcot’. The park has over 100 attractions, including the
biggest and tallest roller coaster in Europe, sledding,
rafting in an African jungle, and a life-size model of
the Mir Space Station.
There is also an area for very
little kids, where they will meet fairies and dinosaurs.
The park also hosts different shows and competitions.
More information about the park can be found at its
official website.
I recommend spending at least one
full day at the park.
Theme park lovers may even want
to spend two days there. Europa Park has a few
advantages over other popular theme parks in Europe:
First of all, entry is relatively cheap (you can also
buy discounted packages of tickets for the park and
other attractions in the area) and lines are fairly
short. The park is located in the Black Forest near the
town of Rust, close to the border with France.
I recommend staying in the Black Forest for a full week in a vacation home, a farmhouse or an apartment hotel. From there, go on trips to nearby places and even to neighbouring France.
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Besides the famous Europa Park, the black
forest has another park called
Steinwasen Park. This one
features alpine slides, rope bridges, a chair lift, a
bobsled run, and many other attractions.
Some
water-related attractions include the water park
Laguna
Badeland and the famous hot springs of Baden Baden.
Animal lovers will enjoy Vogelpark Steinen Bird Park
where there are over 1000 birds of 300 different kinds,
as well as monkeys and other animals.
The Black
Forest also has several alpine slides. There is a
particularly long on the
Hasenhorn, in Todtnau. Another
one is in Freizeitpark, where there is a great variety
of family attractions. The Black Forest is famous for
being the ‘birthplace’ of the cuckoo clock. I recommend
visiting the
German Clock Museum.
Another interesting
museum is the open museum, Schwarzwaldmuseum, which is
all about life in the Black Forest.
Other great attractions are the mine of Bergwerk Schauinsland on the top of a mountain reachable by cable car, a town by the name of Hexenloch (“Witch’s Hole”), and the Mercedes-Benz assembly plant at Sindelfingen.
There
are several interesting and beautiful cities and towns
in the black forest which I recommend visiting during
your stay in the area. The biggest of them all is
Freiburg, nicknamed ‘Capital of the Black Forest’. Don’t
miss a visit to the beautiful
St. Blasien, and dedicate
a full day to
Lake Titisee and the beautiful towns
surrounding it, as there is a lot to do in this area.
I recommend also working some trips out to nature into
your vacation. The Black Forest is full of options for
hiking, biking, boating, swimming in lakes, and more.
The highest waterfalls in Germany,
Triberg Falls, are in
the Black Forest as well.
I also recommend going up in a cable car to Feldberg Mountain, the tallest mountain in the Black Forest.
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