On holiday in the Rhine area, we took the Drachenfelsbahn. What a lovely old mountain railway…read more(funicular). On the way up we passed the middle station on the way to the top with great views and a nice restaurant. On the way back we did stop at the middle station to visit the castle. A great experience in a lovely environment, well worth the visit.

This is basically a funicular tram, and for those who don't know what one is, it is basically a…read moretrain that goes up steep mountains, as is the case with this particular mountain. The bottom is basically a museum to the tram, and show how it was first original developed to its modern usage. The purpose of the tram is to get people from the station at the bottom to the ruins at the top, and there is another stop halfway up which is basically an old palace similar, but much smaller than, the ones down in Bavaria. There is also a reptile zoo around here as well, but I had no idea of its existence until I was on my way back to the hotel.