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OBERSALZBERG do-it-yourself
BERCHTESGADEN do-it-yourself
Note: The updated 2011 guide is no longer available for download
(The updated 2012 guide will soon be released in January)
FOR WORLD WAR II buffs, this Berchtesgaden-Obersalzberg do-it-yourself guide is a must have! Why pay to join a tour when you can do all the sights yourself? I've personally escorted some 6,000 tourgoers to these breathtaking Bavarian heights, now it's your turn to make the journey. Think Hitler's former neighborhood, a maze-like bunker system, and the Eagle's Nest. Situated 25 km from Salzburg, Austria, and two hours south of Munich, this Alpine region boasts some of Germany's most beautiful scenery.
(If you're on the fence about doing Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg yourself, why not join me on tour this September?)
PURCHASE the full do-it-yourself Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg & Hitler's Eagle's Nest destination guide, pdf file download or traditional-style guidebook (pictured below). See this guidebook on Amazon.com
Click thumbnail for larger image (but note the actual size of the guidebook is 5.06" x 7.81", not what's shown).
Brett Harriman (Photoshoped) is seen here above the clouds at the Eagle's Nest holding the Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg & Hitler's Eagle's Nest guidebook. See this guidebook on Amazon.com (2012 guide out soon)
(See Comments at the bottom of the page and feel free to add one of your own!)
IMAGINE pine-fresh air, quaint Bavarian farmhouses, onion-domed churches, and mountain rivulets cutting through lush meadows home to lethargic cows playing tunes with the bells hanging from their necks. Picture men clad in lederhosen, women wearing dirndls, girls sporting pigtails, and hikers clutching ornamented sticks seemingly within arm's reach of jagged peaks belonging to gigantic mountains. It's authentic Bavaria; it's Berchtesgadenerland, the real deal, and waiting for your visit!
Besides swooshing through salt mines and gliding across the idyllic waters of Königssee (Germany's only fjord-like lake), you'll get a better understanding of what once was the seat of an empire on Obersalzberg. For example, page 18 (in the guidebook) narrates the mountain's history followed by the section Obersalzberg Today; then Obersalzberg 1933-45 (pages 20-26), a fascinating do-it-yourself recount of how the Alpine redoubt looked during the Third Reich. Page 27 begins the reader on a do-it-yourself subterranean journey into a network of tunnels (World War II bunker) laced with machine-gun nests leading to Hitler's former mansion, the Berghof. And pages 31-36 lift the reader up to 6,000 feet for the history of the Eagle's Nest and a do-it-yourself tour of the mountain-top property. Information you won't find anywhere else, but here!