SAM at the Zugspitze
Hello! I hope you are enjoying your holidays!
Today, I travelled through the inside of a mountain on a train in Germany, sat in some snow in the middle of summer, went on a cable car through the clouds and walked into another country!
The Zugspitze is the highest mountain in Germany - it's in the Bavarian Alps.
(Have go with the buttons on the map to look around and see a satellite view...)
It's normally covered in snow as lots of people go skiing here in the winter. To get to the top, you can either walk - that takes two days and it's not good if you have paws - or you can go on the special railway line which goes through a tunnel inside the mountain.
You can then go on a special cable car down again.
Here is the view from the very top. On a clear day, you can see into four countries...
...but for a special prize when you get back to school, email me at sam@oakwoodlive.net to tell me which other country I walked into at the very top... (There are clues in the pictures...!)
See you in September!
It's normally covered in snow as lots of people go skiing here in the winter. To get to the top, you can either walk - that takes two days and it's not good if you have paws - or you can go on the special railway line which goes through a tunnel inside the mountain.
You can then go on a special cable car down again.
Here is the view from the very top. On a clear day, you can see into four countries...
...but for a special prize when you get back to school, email me at sam@oakwoodlive.net to tell me which other country I walked into at the very top... (There are clues in the pictures...!)
See you in September!
