We started off journey to Karlsruhe at 9+ and reach our destination within half an hour, since the city’s quite near from Bruchsal. After seeking some help from the friendly lady at the Tourist Centre (this place’s a “must-go” for all tourists—it solves almost all ur questions & intro u to all the places of interests, & they provide u with a very handy map of the city! Haha)
From the Tourist Centre, we walked passed the zoo. There was where we saw some elephants, weird-and-pregnant-looking goats & some pink flamagoes. Ahaha since we didn’t pay to go into the zoo, that’s the most view we can get. The walk from the train station to the city area’s quite long, but its rather interesting as we could enjoy the beautiful scenery and unique architecture of the city.
Before we could reach the city area, the four of us were starving and we decide to stop by a big shopping mall to have lunch. Though there were many shops there, we didn’t do much shopping cuz we all poor-exchange-students and shopping’s out of our budget. Haha the highlight there’s the 60cents per scope ice-cream! Haha its like those expensive and yummilicious ice-cream we have in Spore but its only 60cents! Haha ice-cream rocks!
Finally, after half an hour of walking, we finally reached the heart of the city. There were several big shopping malls and streets and streets of shops selling all kinds of stuff. We wont really into buying stuff so we were plainly window-shopping and sight-seeing along the streets. Ohhh the best part’s the castle! We saw a couple having their wedding outside the castle! haha the bride’s dad even greeted us on our way out with “ni2 hao2 ma1?”(Chinese) He’s quite into Chinese culture and he told us that it was his daughter’s wedding. Haha he’s really friendly and funny. When we asked him ours the wedding and everything he just told us “wo2 hen2 lei4” haha
From the Tourist Centre, we walked passed the zoo. There was where we saw some elephants, weird-and-pregnant-looking goats & some pink flamagoes. Ahaha since we didn’t pay to go into the zoo, that’s the most view we can get. The walk from the train station to the city area’s quite long, but its rather interesting as we could enjoy the beautiful scenery and unique architecture of the city.
Before we could reach the city area, the four of us were starving and we decide to stop by a big shopping mall to have lunch. Though there were many shops there, we didn’t do much shopping cuz we all poor-exchange-students and shopping’s out of our budget. Haha the highlight there’s the 60cents per scope ice-cream! Haha its like those expensive and yummilicious ice-cream we have in Spore but its only 60cents! Haha ice-cream rocks!
Finally, after half an hour of walking, we finally reached the heart of the city. There were several big shopping malls and streets and streets of shops selling all kinds of stuff. We wont really into buying stuff so we were plainly window-shopping and sight-seeing along the streets. Ohhh the best part’s the castle! We saw a couple having their wedding outside the castle! haha the bride’s dad even greeted us on our way out with “ni2 hao2 ma1?”(Chinese) He’s quite into Chinese culture and he told us that it was his daughter’s wedding. Haha he’s really friendly and funny. When we asked him ours the wedding and everything he just told us “wo2 hen2 lei4” haha
At about 4pm, we moved off to Stuttgart by train. The hard part comes when we were trying to locate our hostel, where we will be sleeping for two nights. It was situated up on the hill and we almost died walking up the slope. Actually the structure of Stuttgart is such that the heart of the city with all the shopping areas and happening districts are located in the centre like a valley, with the residential area (including our hostel) up on higher grounds surrounding them.
After checking in and dropping our stuff, we walk back to the train station (yes downhill) to meet Shin Ann, an exchange student from NTU to Stuttgart University. She’s really nice as she brought as around the city and intro us some places that we could visit.
The day ended as we diligently trekked back uphill to our hostel and rest in our little cozy dorm.
Wheee! Sunday started off quite well with our free buffet bkft in our hostel! (its included in the package) haha quite a hearty meal before we set off on our whole day tour around Stuttgart. Since it’s a Sunday, no shops are open, so our main aims are museums, castles, churches, theatres and the beautiful lake. We followed the map given to us by the Stuttgart Tourist Centre, like some Amazing Race game. There was a loop of places marked on the map numbered 1 to hmm.. 30+? Ahaha and we visited the places one by one according to the map, skipping some places here and there which were too out of the way. After much walking, we had our lunch at a “kebab” place. We ordered Mozzerella pizza and cheese and spinach “Pide”( this prata-alike delicious piece of dough).
So the day ended after we’re through with our “Amazing Race”
On Monday morning, we set off to the TV tower some distance away from town. It’s the earliest TV station in the world! The view 150m above ground rocks!
Tts all we can rem by now haha. So, just enjoy the pictures!
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