Prague? What Prague?
My apologies to Christine and everyone else who raved about Prague. But seriously, everyone who loved Prague must not have been to Cesky Krumlov.
Cesky Krumlov is everything I thought Prague should have been. It is an utterly gorgeous little town nestled into the Czech mountains with a castle that looks like it belongs above the clouds and the Vltava meandering idly through.
It was utterly beautiful.
We only had one full day in Cesky Krumlov (due to aforementioned bus crisis) but we made the most of it! We got up at 7am in the morning and rode horses through the wheat fields and forests. Then we had a mini picnic morning tea by the banks of the Vltava before hiring a inflatable raft and boating down from Vetrini back to Cesky Krumlov (the boat hire company drove us to Vetrini). I even navigated down 4 rapids created by dams which gave me a micro (VERY micro) taste of white water rafting but really was more like going down a water slide. And then we ran around the castle before running for a bus and running to a train connection that (after quite some drama) got us to Vienna. *Sigh* Tired, but very happy. It was worth all the trouble to get there and away. (Ask me for my "oh my god Czech public transportation rant sometime, it's too long to put here)
Ooh... I should add at this point that Cesky Krumlov is cheap. I had two very, very yummy and very, very satisfying Czech meals and added together they didn't even equate to the cost of one very average Czech meal in Prague. In one restaurant we even had the privilege of an elderly gentleman jamming away merry tunes on a piano and some locals singing along with maracas in hand.
Plus there are infinitely less tourists to jostle against in Cesky Krumlov... always a plus!
Cesky Krumlov is everything I thought Prague should have been. It is an utterly gorgeous little town nestled into the Czech mountains with a castle that looks like it belongs above the clouds and the Vltava meandering idly through.
It was utterly beautiful.
We only had one full day in Cesky Krumlov (due to aforementioned bus crisis) but we made the most of it! We got up at 7am in the morning and rode horses through the wheat fields and forests. Then we had a mini picnic morning tea by the banks of the Vltava before hiring a inflatable raft and boating down from Vetrini back to Cesky Krumlov (the boat hire company drove us to Vetrini). I even navigated down 4 rapids created by dams which gave me a micro (VERY micro) taste of white water rafting but really was more like going down a water slide. And then we ran around the castle before running for a bus and running to a train connection that (after quite some drama) got us to Vienna. *Sigh* Tired, but very happy. It was worth all the trouble to get there and away. (Ask me for my "oh my god Czech public transportation rant sometime, it's too long to put here)
Ooh... I should add at this point that Cesky Krumlov is cheap. I had two very, very yummy and very, very satisfying Czech meals and added together they didn't even equate to the cost of one very average Czech meal in Prague. In one restaurant we even had the privilege of an elderly gentleman jamming away merry tunes on a piano and some locals singing along with maracas in hand.
Plus there are infinitely less tourists to jostle against in Cesky Krumlov... always a plus!
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