48 Hours in the German Alps: Best of Berchtesgaden 🇩🇪

[@ChadandClaire]

Go to betterhelp.com/chadandclaire for a discount on your first month of therapy. Taking the first step to improving our mental health has drastically impacted our lives in so many positive ways, and we hope it will for you as well. We’re back in the Alps again, and this time, in Germany’s magnificent Bavarian Alps! 🇩🇪 Our days in the mountains were a repeat of breathtaking hikes, delicious picnics (always with a pretzel, of course haha), and time for reading and self-reflection. It really can’t get better than that! 😁 Next week, we’re posting the second part of this series in the Bavarian Alps, so stay tuned for more outdoor adventures in Germany! Tours and experiences we recommend in Berchtesgaden: 🦅 From Munich: Guided Group Tour to Eagle’s Nest - gyg.me/zbl1n6Js 🥾 From Munich: Berchtesgaden Foothills and Obersalzberg - gyg.me/ujb8feJG 🌿 From Munich: Königsee Day Tour by Van - gyg.me/KrraZXBd 🌲 Eagle's Nest and Berchtesgaden Tour from Salzburg - gyg.me/Da6hGO8d 🧂 Bavarian Salt Mine Tour and Berchtesgaden - gyg.me/Ye93cMkK

[@carolmartin4413]

One thing about German food...it's made to sate your hunger and fill your stomach...and it does that completely. Being part German (this is Wisconsin), most of us grew up on these fine, filling foods..and still enjoy today. Germany is really a beautiful country and hikers' paradise. Keep enjoying your travels! 🎉

[@AdventuresofAplusK]

Gahh this made us want to return to Germany so badly! We weren't able to make it to this part of the Alps and it looks STUNNING!

[@ChadandClaire]

Backpacking trip in GERMANY!!! :D

[@kaitlincornejo7387]

My husband and I are going here in early October and I was literally kicking my feet with excitement watching this.

[@BananamelonX]

My friend took me here in April. It was the highlight of my Europe trip as I had dreamt of visiting BGD since 2021. Absolutely no regrets visiting there.

[@sourlikealime]

your videos are probably one of the most wholesome things on this platform, can''t wait for the next video

[@ChadandClaire]

Woah! Happy you feel that way! We hope to bring a bit of solace to this crazy world. Thanks for watching!

[@antonios111]

Radler is pretty common in Germany, a lot of the kiosks sell them… The Eagles Nest is highly recommended, not just for the history, but the view is absolutely breathtaking. The huts you spoke about, around this time of the year are perfect, particularly Wasseralm and Gotzenalm. Thoroughly enjoying your videos in Germany, as a German, currently aboard ❤❤

[@ChadandClaire]

Thanks for following along and adding your input! It's so nice to know that a German local enjoyed our videos as well. Safe travels!

[@Ollinossi]

i see you had great days here. greets from germany

[@cebamy]

Thanks for another wonderful German vlog. German alps is now in our bucket list!

[@ChadandClaire]

Thanks for following along! We can't wait for you to explore the German alps!

[@stefanfrank4054]

What a nice couple and a very beautiful landscape. It's a pleasure for me (as a german) to see how much you both enjoy your vacation. Please, send more videos

[@normandea]

Your videos are very well made and clearly done with care. Beautiful panoramas, tasteful background music, good food reviews, and genuinely nice people on camera leading the audience through your travels.

[@ChadandClaire]

Thank you very much! This comment was so nice to hear. Thanks for spending the time to share your thoughts.

[@debbiegallardo9853]

Thanks again for another great, beautiful and magnificent views of the alps, mountains, waterfalls, rivers and more. It’s so relaxing and serene, I loved it. Plus the background music is perfect. You guys are the Best👏👏

[@ChadandClaire]

Our pleasure! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@frankschrewe4302]

Another great place to visit in Berchtesgaden is the Salt mine just outside the town.

[@RickyBobby2473]

Now THIS is right my alley! I think I’m gonna wait till you revisit the Dolomites and maybe offer a group trip there! I’m definitely in love with that region. The German alps are incredible!!! Thanks for this!

[@ChadandClaire]

Ooooh you got our wheels turning! Perhaps we should plan a group trip to the Dolomites! :D

[@RickyBobby2473]

@@ChadandClaire THAT sounds amazing!!!! I’d have to be in that one!

[@dagda3000]

At 2:02 you drove through Ramsau. There is an iconic photo spot just to the left over the bridge - showing the little stream, the bridge, the church and the mountains in the background. Another recommendations in the area: - Hintersee - Maria Gern church with the best view of the Watzmann mountain

[@hearthhammerreinheimer4251]

Thanks for the views!! You guys rock!! :)

[@ChadandClaire]

You rock!

[@jerrycratsenberg989]

Thank you for continuing to share youor marvelous journey with us. It is satisfying to see the two of you grow along with your ever growing adventure and exploration of the planet.

[@ChadandClaire]

Yeah! It has been interesting to watch ourselves change over time. Physically and mentally!

[@anastasiafua]

Love when I see a new upload from you guys especially this series! I love the alps too (only been to Switzerland but will visit Austria alps next year) but the alps in Bavaria…whoa. I think I ought to visit in the future! Ok back to your vidoe 😂🎉

[@ChadandClaire]

Yes! You totally should! The alps really are a spectacular mountain range.

[@klaus2t703]

Hi, that´s near my home. I really like the mountains, views, hiking, nature. Nice video. Beer and soda = Radler. Refreshing, a little bit sweet. The perfect drink after a hike. Btw: Some people ;-) think electric boats sink because the batteries are too heavy. They should come to Berchtesgaden, Königssee where all boats are powered by batteries. And this since more than 100 years now!!! (Indeed: NO, I really don´t want THIS special person to come here)

[@ChadandClaire]

Radler's are a genius invention! We think they really are the best drink after a hike. Thanks for watching. Also had no idea the boats were electric but that totally makes sense!

[@sommermaxwell]

Such a beautiful trip! It makes me want to escape to the mountains. I think the little fruit you keep finding with dessert is a ground cherry or physalis.

[@ChadandClaire]

Ahh! Ground cherry! Fascinating! You totally should plan an escape to the mountains! Perhaps for the autumn time!

[@tomislavbaier]

Berchtesgaden, a hidden gem of Germany the same way Mount Rushmore is a hidden gem of the USA :D

[@asan1050]

You guys ROCK! Thank you very much! I can't wait to see more.

[@drewmacphee1664]

A chad and Claire video was just what I needed to wind down and relax! Looks like you both had a wonderful time. Take care!

[@deannazampa5286]

So pretty! And beer with soda or lemonade are Shandy’s. Can buy at some bars in US or in cans. Or make your own!😊

[@ChadandClaire]

Great idea!! We're keeping our eyes peeled for them now!

[@technocoh]

13:45 wow this church at Königssee is on my triplist, greetings from Germany! :D

[@lockguy2652]

There several beers here in the States that are mixed with lemonade. Pretty refreshing...

[@KaySan666]

Nice view from your small apartement. Directly onto the Watzmann

[@Destinavigator]

❤️ YOOOO! Nice video!!! I’m a Small Struggling Travel Channel and you really inspire me to make better content 😌 Thank you! 🙏🏻

[@jenmiller9744]

Wow, gorgeous!!!! I always "save" your videos, for my husband and I to watch together. Just curious, how many countries in are you, toward your goal of 50 countries?

[@HorizonsHopped]

I really enjoy your videos!

[@TheKokoro83]

Hey guys lovely videos are you able to share your hiking routes as well?

[@ChadandClaire]

Hey! We did not track them on any sort of platform that we can share, but if you search the locations we mentioned you can find all the hikes with a bit of research! Best of luck! If you have trouble finding it you can always email us and I'll send you google locations!

[@djking2609]

Just a wee note that the Eagles Nest was not Hitler’s holiday home. It was merely built at a time when the Nazis were commissioning several buildings across Berchtesgaden. This was all centred around the Berghof- Hitler’s holiday home, which was demolished shortly after the war ended. However, Hitler is documented to have visited Eagles Nest, and it was used to host government meetings. The novel ‘Prussian Blue’ by Philip Kerr offers a fascinating look at the mass construction around Berchtesgaden in the late 1930s, and I’d definitely recommend it to anyone interested in the location or the history!

[@ChadandClaire]

Thanks for sharing this! It's all so interesting! It's wild to think the history of that place.

[@WimmelGamer]

8:44 Sponsored by Mercedes 🤣 Look in the upper left corner at the mountainside ;-)

[@KaySan666]

The endless fields of yellow might also be the canola fields. if they're relatively tightly packed and less like that small field by the church, then thats a canola field.

[@th.a]

An alternative to a 'Radler, a Bavarian 'Helles' mixed with lemon soda, could be a wheat beer mixed with lemon soda. It's called a 'Russe' (Russian). Furthermore you also can ask for a 'Cola Weiße'. It's wheat beer mixed with coke.

[@th.a]

I was too fast, you got your 'Russian' already...

[@sabinemuc6259]

The yellow "wild flower" surely is: Raps / rapeseed . It is cultivated for oil production 🏵🏵🏵

[@KevinLee-zv6tr]

@ChadandClaire It will be my first time traveling to Europe with my wife and I’m planning a two-day trip from Munich to Berchtesgaden before heading to Salzburg. Did you drive from Munich? It seems like visiting those places would be much easier with a car rather than using public transport. What do you think?

[@tanjahigginbotham8207]

There ARE people in the US that drink Radlers. Me, ich, I drink Radlers and I am “totally” not German at all 😂

[@amainzergoesplaces568]

May is indeed a great time of year to visit the region even though not everything's open for the season yet. All the fresh green, only a fraction of the summer crowds around... Many Americans have heard of so-called "Eagles Nest" and believe that it was Hitler's hiding place or vacation home. Neither is true. Kehlsteinhaus (that's the real name of the place) was just a tea house built NEAR Obersalzberg, a complex of buildings on a mountain that served as official second seat of Hitler's government. It all got torn down after the war, but you can still see some of the old tunnels and bunkers in the Obersalzberg Documentation Center. Shouldn't go to Eagles Nest and miss the doc center if you are interested in the history of the place. It is right by the parking lot where the buses to Kehlsteinhaus leave from. Now, Hitler actually hated that tea house, not the least, it is said, because he was claustrophobic and scared of the elevator - which is still in use today to reach the restaurant. So the Hitler visited the place maybe a handful of times. Nothing significant ever happened there and it is kinda funny that people from all over the world flock to it because of the assumed connection with the evil dictator. Btw: When a meadow carries a lot of yellow buttercup and dandelian it is a safe sign of over-fertilization. You can tell that those meadows in Bavaria are used by grazing cows in the summer. In the fall they get sprayed with dung - definitely not a place where you want to picknick. Look for meadows with mixed flowers, those are the ecologicaly healthy wild flower meadows. And the yellow fields you see from the plane are canola. They are all over Germany, mostly for producing biofuel.

[@WilliamHANSEN-r6e]

Too bad the Eagle's nest was closed. If you ever do go back you should take the salt mine tour. Interesting and not very expensive.

[@berndgaal7689]

I am hungry!!!!!!!! Don t show this delicious looking food!!!!!! You are soo mean!! I envy you!!!

[@karlstriepe8050]

If you like the Radler, or shandy, as the English say, get a snakebite, which is half beer, half cider. Bty, can you even still ride a bike and drink in Germany. In Austria that's now illegal, so no Radlers there, I guess.

[@arnodobler1096]

Radler in english Shandy

[@shirleyhogan9626]

Aren't you guys having real jobs to do? Seemed you guys are always traveling and entertaining. What a life!?

[@ChadandClaire]

I know right! So much of this job is behind the scenes that when the final result comes out (aka this video) it looks like we don't work at all. Trust me so much planning, filming, editing, and emailing goes into every trip we go on. But we feel so lucky to have this job.

[@shirleyhogan9626]

@ChadandClaire Thanks for writing back. You two surely have a great job working on KZbin travels blog 👍 guess they're paying good money 😊

[@christophbade3806]

This small yellow fruit is lychee, a fruit from Japan!

[@christian_globalimages]

No, the small little fruit is called Physalis. Lychees by the way have a pink/reddish color and are not Japanese fruits. You find them in Southern China and all over South East Asia.

[@christopheferraux2864]

Hello from France All you have to do is visit the French Alps. a nice place in these mountains is Annecy and its lake whose water is the cleanest in Europe

[@ChadandClaire]

Sounds like a plan! :D

[@_zibbedy]

so obviously you ignored the drone prohibition rules of the Berchtesgarden National Park....

[@bh8138]

Looks so beautiful...and would never visit Eagles Nest anyway. I just can't understand after what genocidal Hitler did to Germany and the world WHY anyone would want to step foot in a place where Hitler "vacationed." I can't believe Germany hasn't torn it down. Glad it wasn't in this video!