June 19 -- Today's quote: "Another word to describe this is beautiful." M2
We left Austria and drove just a short drive into the mountains of Germany again and ended up at Konigssee Lake in the Berchtesgaden National Park. We took a boat ride across the lake and then did a short hike up to another mountain lake. The water in both lakes is as clear and blue as you can imagine, despite being over 600 feet deep in parts. Words really cannot describe the beauty that we saw with the sheer mountain cliffs reflecting off the water. The Tetons in the United States have probably the most comparable scenery to what we saw today, and if the pictures do it even 50% justice, they should be some pretty amazing pictures. We also got to see a glimpse of Hitler's Eagle's Nest way up on the top of a mountain in the park.
Because our destination for the day was Fussen, we weren't able to spend as much time at the lake as we would have liked. We already knew we would be getting to our guest house for the night quite late, but getting stuck in traffic (we literally went 10 km in one hour) and then our navigation system sending us on what seemed an obscure route (which took us into Austria, back into Germany, into Austria, and finally back into Germany) through winding mountain roads in the middle of nowhere, it was quite late when we got to Fussen.
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