Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Bernau Tourist Office
( 986 80;
www.bernau-am-chiemsee.de
; Aschauer Strasse 10;
8.30am-6pm Mon-Fri, 9am-noon Sat Jul-mid-Sep, shorter hours Mon-Fri & closed
Sat mid-Sep-Jun)
Chiemsee Info-Center
( 965 550;
www.chiemsee.de
; 9am-6pm Mon-Fri)
On the
southern lake shore, near the Bernau-Felden autobahn exit.
Prien Tourist Office
( 690 50;
www.tourismus.prien.de
; Alte Rathausstrasse 11;
8.30am-6pm Mon-Fri, to 4pm Sat May-Sep, 8.30am-5pm Mon-Fri Oct-Apr)
Getting There & Around
Trains run hourly from Munich to Prien (€16.40, one hour) and Bernau (€18.10, 1¼
hours). Hourly RVO bus 9505 connects the two lake towns.
Local buses run from Prien Bahnhof to the harbour in Stock. You can also take the his-
toric
Chiemseebahn
(one-way/return €2.60/3.60)
(1887), the world's oldest narrow-
gauge steam train.
Chiemsee Schifffahrt
( 6090;
www.chiemsee-schifffahrt.de
; Seestrasse 108)
oper-
ates half-hourly to hourly ferries from Prien with stops at Herreninsel, Fraueninsel,
Seebruck and Chieming on a schedule that changes seasonally. You can circumnavigate
the entire lake and make all these stops (getting off and catching the next ferry that comes
your way) for €12.40. Children aged six to 15 get a 50% discount.
Chiemgauer Radhaus
( 4631; Bahnhofsplatz 6)
and
Chiemgau Biking
( 961
4973; Chiemseestrasse 84)
hire out mountain bikes for between €12 and €22 per day.
Berchtesgaden
08652 / POP 7600
Wedged into Austria and framed by six formidable mountain ranges, the Berchtesgadener
Land is a drop-dead-gorgeous corner of Bavaria steeped in myths and legends. Local lore
has it that angels given the task of distributing the earth's wonders were startled by God's
order to get a move on and dropped them all here. These most definitely included the
Watzmann (2713m), Germany's second-highest mountain, and the pristine Königssee,
perhaps Germany's most photogenic body of water.
Much of the area is protected by law within the Berchtesgaden National Park, which
was declared a 'biosphere reserve' by Unesco in 1990. The village of Berchtesgaden is the
obvious base for hiking circuits into the park.
