Munich city tour

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In my previous travel post, I mentioned Hallstatt, a lovely village on the outskirts of Austria which was my second stop after Vienna. After visiting Hallstatt, I took a bus to go to Salzburg first and then from there I went to München for 1 day. I already had my hostel booked and after taking a good night sleep I went to see the beautiful city. Munich is one of Bavaria's most populous cities, and the city has so much to offer that I was wondering if it's a good idea to try to see everything in one day. It was a busy day, but I had a great time roaming around the city.

I did a lot of research before going there, and I had a pretty good idea of how their public transportation worked. I paid $9 for a one-day pass that allowed me to travel around the city. I took the metro from the hostel to Marienplatz. The city's most famous square, Marienplatz, is situated in the heart of Munich's city center. When you arrive at Munich's Marienplatz, the impressive Neues Rathaus is the first thing you see (New Town Hall).

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As soon as I reach there I took a city walking tour which covers many of Munich’s major landmarks within 2.5 hours including the Glockenspiel, Peterskirche (St. Peter's Church), Viktualienmarkt, Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall), Hofbrauhaus Beer Hall, Maximilianstrasse, Residenz Royal Palace, Feldherrnhalle, Theatine Church and Hofgarten.

The Glockenspiel in the tower of the New Town Hall is one of Munich’s most popular sights.

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Every day at 11 a.m. and noon, this clock puts on a show. Hundreds of people congregate in front of the tower to hear the Glockenspiel chime and watch the 32 life-size figures reenact historical Bavarian events.

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Mariensäule: The column's pedestal, topped by a golden statue of the Virgin Mary, has a figure on each corner depicting the city's triumph over war, pestilence, hunger, and heresy.

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Right next to Marienplatz is Peterskirche (St. Peter's Church). The city of Munich is said to have grown up around the site of Peterskirche. One can enjoy a spectacular 360 view from top of the church by only paying few euros. Because there was a long queue in front of the church, I resisted the temptation to see the city from the top.

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Altes Rathaus (the Old Town Hall) stands on the eastern side of Marienplatz. The building now houses the city council's offices, as well as some administrative departments and a Toy Museum (Spielzugmuseum), which is placed in four rooms within the tower.

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We went pass the world-famous Hofbräuhaus beer hall. A huge Beerhall with over 1000 seats and a Beergarden where you can enjoy Blasmusic and bavarian Beer in 1 Liter Glasses.
Only natural ingredients can be used for beer brewing, according to the Bavarian Beer Purity Law, which was passed in 1516. This law is still followed to this day, and Munich beers, including Hofbräuhaus, are held to that high, delicious standard of brewing. source

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An old man was performing blasmusic in front of the Hofbräuhaus beer hall.

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Residenz Royal Palace at Maximilianstrasse. Maximilianstrasse is popular for designer shops, luxury boutiques, jewellery stores.

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The Theatinerkirche (Theatine Church) at Odeonsplatz is one of Munich's most beautiful churches, with its yellow facade and ornate interior.

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We finished our walking tour in front of Hofgarten which is on the north side of the Residenz Royal Palace.

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I decided to visit the English Garden after walking for 2.5 hours and seeing beautiful sights with the guided tour. It is Europe's largest publicly owned park, larger even than Central Park in New York.

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Locals come to this place to relax and play football and other sports. Schwabinger Bach which starts in the centre of Munich flows through the Englischer Garten. People take shower in this stream. The walk along the stream was very relaxing.

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One of the interesting things in the garden was this place. People are surfing in the artificial wave.

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Local taking pictures with Octoberfest traditional dress.

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The beer garden at the Chinese Tower is Munich's second-largest, with over 7000 open-air seats on benches arranged all around the tower.

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I hope you like my article. Next time I'll write about the other two places I visited during my brief stay in Munich.

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Thanks a lot:))

Munich is awesome, love your travel story :)

I am glad that you love my travel story :))

Well written travelling post. I enjoy reading your posts. Keep it up :)

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The photos look great! I don't know how the original pics looked, but I love how Luminar brings out the details of the darker areas and really makes skies and foliage more vivid. I mostly only use the Ai Image Enhancer preset and crop/rotate. Also tweaking the color slider for temperature is sometimes required.

For Darktable, I mostly use that for the Perspective Correction module when my buildings aren't looking right. I use the automatic fix buttons at the bottom. If it "fixes" it wrong, I reset each bar because resetting the whole module makes it stop working 😕. The Contrast Equalize module also has a real good sharpen & denoise preset. It sharpens a little too much for my taste, so I lessened it a little bit and saved a new preset. Filmic RGB is sometimes fun to experiment with. I don't really know how to use it though, I just slide the sliders and hope things look better.

Thank you so much for your feedback and thorough explanation. It means a lot. Luminar is much easier to use than Darktable. I find Darktable not that user friendly but I think with times it will get easier :))

I had to watch some youtube tutorials to understand the basics of Darktable. It's more for raw photos from real cameras. But it's still useful. I have too many photos that need the perspective correction.

Yeah. I wanted to do something more with my mobile photos but I couldnt. So, I guess those options are for photos from real camera.

Another really nice tool in Luminar is the erase tool. Sometimes it does weird things, but a lot of times it's surprisingly good and easy. I'm working on photos for my next post and I had to use it.

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I straightened this building in darktable, but it would have cropped too much of the photo to remove all of the black.

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I cropped the top and bottom, but used the erase tool to fill in the lower left of the photo. The bottom design of the statue isn't perfect, it copied the middle design instead of the end design, but it looks decent enough. And since I have a ton of photos to go through, I can't make them all perfect. So this is good enough for me.

It also works surprisingly well for removing people's heads when they walk into your shots.

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It's found here in Luminar, and shouldn't be ignored 😄

Hey, Thank you for letting me know about this option. I actually did use the erase option in my Munich post and as you said, I was really surprised how it removed some unwanted things :D
What's going to be your next destination? As I can see you have been to almost all the places in Balkan, have you been to Belgrade, Serbia?

The next city is Zagreb. Then a lake in Hungary.

I did not go to Serbia. Because I was meeting with my family members, I didn't have as much freedom as I would later in my trip.

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Dear @livinguktaiwan,
Thank you soo much for the Honorable Mentions. It will motivate me to write better blog in future :D