Praha (Prague) really is a beautiful city. With night scenes like the above view of the castle, you can imagine what it's like in person. Having never been bombed out during any of the world wars, all their old, amazing buildings are still mostly original. Walking around the city, I kept finding new, beautiful buildings. The city is somewhat seperated into New and Old Town. So you get great buildings like the Tyn Church (the headquarters of the Hussites, the first reformers) and ones like the National Theater below within a few blocks of each other, but separated by hundreds of years. Like most cities this old, a river runs through the town, and there are several islands that are accessible by one of the bridges. I liked going out to Střelecký Island in particular. From there you get really great views of the town, Charles Bridge, and the castle.
Now, I have one complaint about Praha. It's filled with tourists. Below is the hourly gathering to watch the Astronomical Clock in the Old Town Square chime the hour and run it's little show. Now what I think is kind of funny, is that it wasn't even working when I was there. But still, the masses gather every hour, on the hour. This is probably a personal problem, obviously these hundreds of people don't mind too much. I don't remember it being this crowded in Wien, maybe that's just because it rained like everyday I was there. All I'm going to say is Praha is a really great place to visit and I highly encourage you to visit, but it's the stop I'll let you take without me.
Praha (Prague) really is a beautiful city. With night scenes like the above view of the castle, you can imagine what it's like in person. Having never been bombed out during any of the world wars, all their old, amazing buildings are still mostly original. Walking around the city, I kept finding new, beautiful buildings. The city is somewhat seperated into New and Old Town. So you get great buildings like the Tyn Church (the headquarters of the Hussites, the first reformers) and ones like the National Theater below within a few blocks of each other, but separated by hundreds of years. Like most cities this old, a river runs through the town, and there are several islands that are accessible by one of the bridges. I liked going out to Střelecký Island in particular. From there you get really great views of the town, Charles Bridge, and the castle.
Now, I have one complaint about Praha. It's filled with tourists. Below is the hourly gathering to watch the Astronomical Clock in the Old Town Square chime the hour and run it's little show. Now what I think is kind of funny, is that it wasn't even working when I was there. But still, the masses gather every hour, on the hour. This is probably a personal problem, obviously these hundreds of people don't mind too much. I don't remember it being this crowded in Wien, maybe that's just because it rained like everyday I was there. All I'm going to say is Praha is a really great place to visit and I highly encourage you to visit, but it's the stop I'll let you take without me.
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