English Garden, Munich

The Munich English Garden is a huge park which stretches alongside the river Isar from almost the very center to the northernmost rim of the city. The park covers 3.73 square kilometers which makes it the largest city park in Europe and larger than New York's Central Park (3.4 square kilometers).

When I was there, it was summer time. The weather was good, and there were a lot people went for sun bathing.

English Garden is really a great place for recreation. River, field, grass, sunshine...... a natural place for resting and enjoying. After a whole day walking in Munich city, I was abit tired. I lied down on the field, looking around and taking photos.



After few minutes resting, I continued my journey. I came to the Japanese Tea House. The Japanese Tea House and Chinese Tower in the park are landmarks in their own right, the Tea House being a gift from Japan's emperor. The Chinese Tower is a restaurant and beer garden which serves mainly German cuisine. However, I was not able to see the Chinese Tower, maybe I was not walking deep into English Garden enough.



The scenery around Japanese Tea House was really good. But since it was Sunday, the tea house was not opened for tourist to visit it. However, it was enough for us to just taking photos around it. There are swan, ducks swimming on the lake.

After taking all the photos, I ended my journey in English Garden.

Chinese New Year Eve

We are celebrating Chinese New Year now!!! During the eve of Chinese New Year, as usual, after our reunion dinner with family, we went to Jonker Street to make the first pray in Cheng Hoon Teng. It was crowded (people mountain people sea :p). No hesitation, when we first step in Cheng Hoon Teng, we started to squize with people.

Besides praying in Cheng Hoon Teng, of cause we took a walk around jonker walk. The whole street was decorated in red colour to celebrate Chinese New Year. The atmostphere was so good, we were totally in Chinese New Year mood already! We didn't joined the count down here, as when we reached here, it was around 1am already (this is to avoid the crowd).



After that, we continued our celebration. We went to a friend's house. Doing what? I think all of us will know it :p

Munich City Tour 2

Continued with previous post......

After visiting several places, we decided to have our lunch first. We came to a restaurant (actually is similar to a hawker center). We choose a Italian food stall. I have ordered a pizza. The portion was big (always too big for us), the taste was good also. I tried my best to finish the pizza, oopss, I was too full to finish up the whole pizza.



After our lunch, we just walked around the city and went to the Deutches Museum. That's all I spent my first whole day in Munich.

Munich City Tour

Munich is the capital of the German state of Bavaria and a Gamma World City. There are, in fact, three locations in Bavaria known as "München" - the one referred to as "Munich", one northeast of Nuremberg, and one north of Passau. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

Munich is Germany's third largest city after Berlin and Hamburg. The city has a population of 1.35 million and the Munich Metropolitan Region is home to around 4,65 million people.

When the first time I was in Munich, it was in May. It was end of spring and the starting of summer day. The weather and temperature was 'not stable' as it would sometimes hot and sometimes cold.

I arrived the Munich airport around 10am in the morning, after taking a train to Derag hotel, it was around 11am. Right after checkin to the hotel, I followed my colleagues to have a city tour around Munich.



The first place we went of course was Marienplatz, it is the center of the whole city. Our tour will start from Marienplatz. It was so coincidence that when we arrived there, the tower clock was just starting to sound (it was 12pm sharp). It was crowded by people looking at the clock.

After that, we came to a tower, we walk up to have a look on the whole city view. It was really great to see the Munich view here.



After that, we took a walk around Marienplatz and Karlplatz. This was the first time I been to Europe, so everything was new to me, the lifestyle, people, buildings..... Because it was Sunday, all the shops were not opened, except restaurant. So, I was not able to visit or buy anything in any shops.



We came to the most famous beer garden in Munich, Hofbraushaus. It was a very typical beer garden in Germany, and it has the best beer in Munich. I didn't take any beer here at this time, but I did come again after that, and had 1 litre of weis beer. It was great, I love the beer here.

to be continued......