Happiness on rails – Bavaria's most beautiful railway routes

The journey is the destination – these Bavarian railway routes will make your journey an experience.

Kurt Tucholsky wrote of hearing the locomotives whistle at night, longing to visit faraway places and turning over in his bed and thinking: travel!. These Bavarian railway routes will make any journey an experience.

The Außerfernbahn is one of the most beautiful railway lines in Bavaria. From...

As you gaze through the window of the train at the Upper Bavarian Alpine foreland and the Zugspitze...

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