Prague June 11-15

This trip to Prague was so amazing!! After talking to a roomie, he told me about Rainbow Tours and I decided to attend this one, I originally wanted to go to Paris but the weather and seating were not co-operating. Well I met with the bus around Kassel and we took off at 9 p.m. and went to pick more people up and drove all night to Prague. We finally arrived on the 11th at about 9 a.m. I spent the whole day of Monday walking around Prague and taking in all the beauty and the wonderful atmosphere that this "Golden City" had to offer. Its sometimes refered to as the "Golden City" because during sunsets, the gold on top of most buildings light up and is very beautiful!! There was so much to see in this city, and I took a ton of pics but here are a few pics of the buildings and stuff like that around the city!!

This is probally the most modern building in Prague, I thought it was really cool, the design and yes those are babies walking on the building. Pretty interesting for a TV station huh, but this building did stick out when you looked at the city!!



Here are some pics of the city. The first one is from across one of the rivers looking back at Prague. The second one is of the Old Square, because Europeans are crazy about Football (soccer), they had a huge screen where everyone could watch the game, and there were a ton of people watching the games!! The third pic is a picture of the Old Square at night, I met two other Americans (Linda and Lucy), New York girls here following some of the games, at the bus station on Tuesday, funny, we were all looking for tickets to Terazine where the town populated an old concentration camp. I forgot what the last two buildings were but they were equally as beautiful!!







In the Old Square there was an amazing Astronomical Clock, this thing was very beautiful and was really neat because certain parts of the clock would move on the hour. People first told us that the maker of the clock, after completion, had his hands chopped off or was blinded so that he could not make another clock. I found out later that it was just a myth, haha but kinda hardcore huh?



On Tuesday, like mentioned, I met the other Americans and we decided to go to Terazine and check out the concentration camp. This town was an hour away by the beautiful and elegant bus, haha yeah right =), that took us from Prague to Terazine. This town was pretty dead, there were very few tourist or even people around when we arrive but after some looking, we found what we were looking for.

This is a pic of me infront of the rail road tracks that were used to transport the Jews.



While there we checked out the cemetary and the crematorium. Both places were really hardcore. We saw alot there, and its crazy to think about how 30k Jews were treated and killed when you see and autopsy table, furnaces, and mass grave sites, here are pics of the first two and the third pic is of a grave site for the Soviet soldiers that died!





On Wednesday, I did more walking around the town and got adventurous and headed to Prague castle, which is the largest castle in Europe from what I remember. Here is a pic of the front of the castle and the guards were really cool, they were like the queen's guards where they had to stand there and stay still. Next are some pics of what I believe was a church inside the castle, you can see part of the church in the first pic over the buildig, this thing was huge, old and very amazing!! To show you a size of it, the last pic, that is me in it at the steps and thats a small portion of the whole which you can see on the second to last pic!!






I have to say that the walk UP HILL the whole way was pretty hardcore. It was long and since I figured I was already up there that I would check out the replica of the Eiffel Tower that is in Paris. This is a smaller version of the one in Paris but with the added height of the hill that it is on, it is the same height as the original. Well I trecked once again, UP HILL, haha for a while and when i get there...it was closed, so I was kinda dissappointed but here is a pic of what it looks like. It was hard work, haha, so I figured Id get a pic at least huh??



Thursday was my last day in Prague, and there was still one last thing that I wanted to see before leaving. It was a bone church in the town of Kutna Hora, which was an old mining town, hence the litteral meaning of the town's name, that was an hour bus ride East of Prague. Haha, once again I took the wonderful bus system that Prague has, to get an idea of this, imagine sitting in the oven next to the turkey you had for Thanksgiving Day, and that is how it was on the bus ride. Well, I met some really nice couple, from around Boston, traveling in Prague. We made our treck to the bone church and that was a story in itself, but we finally make it and it was amazing considering they used the bones of some 40k plague victims to decorate the whole church.



This is the center of the church and man I wanted that chandaler for myself to put up in my home, haha!!



At the four corners of the church there were thest pyramids of bones with the crowns on top. There were alot of people that were put into making this.



The creator, a monk, even used some of the bones to create his familie's coat of arms. This seemed to me a unique way to show pride in your coat of arms!!