Backpack Day 3 - Prague & Cesky Krumlov =]

This is my last day in Prague before we move on to our next destination.

Had our breakfast early in the morning, good breakfast if you can accept the bread are as hard as rock. I'm not really a bread-person, so yeah I don't really like ''Prague bread''. I wonder if the elderly can really chew those hard-rock-bread. However, those ham are really tasty, as you know Czech are good in meat product.

Hard-rock-bread

First destination of the day is the Dancing House. It was originally named Fred and Ginger-after the famous dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

The “Dancing House” is set on a property of great historical significance. Its site was the location of a house destroyed by the U.S. bombing of Prague in 1945.It reflects a woman and man (Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair) dancing together.

The dancing house

Babe& Me dancing in front of the Dancing House

Us & the Dancing House

Then, we got back to the Prague Castle to revisit those attractions we missed out the day before.

We took tram back to Prague Castle

We went for the Powder Tower first before we going to the St. Vitus Cathedral, which will only be open to public in noon. It was once the workshop of alchemists who tried to turn lead into gold. Now it hold an exhibition about the history of the tower, showing different roles of soldiers as well as some weapons used in the past.

The powder tower

The exhibition (i)

The exhibition (ii)

 As we rushed our way to St. Vitus, I wouldn't want to believe my eyes, there's a really long long long long queue of crowd waiting to have a visit into the cathedral. I should have taken a picture of the queue to show how bad is the line. It took us at least an hour before we can get into the cathedral. 

However, it was worth the waiting I would say. The interior of the cathedral was fasinating.The cathedral is an excellent example of Gothic architecture and is the biggest and most important church in Czech. 

I personally like the art of stained glass window a lot. But it's hard to capture the pretty of it using camera. It looks so much prettier when you see it with your bare eyes.

One of the many stained glass window

My favourite, the rose window

As there's a huge crowd in the cathedral, so we are not allowed to actually spend much time in the cathedral. It would be great if we are given more time to appreciate the beauty of the art in the cathedral. However, it was really a great experience to have a glimpse on the St. Vitus. It was now rated as my no.2 favourite cathedral after the St. Paul Cathedral. =]

Eurohotdog~ Yumyum =]

So then, Eurohotdog put an fullstop to our trip in Prague, a very memorable one. It is just a beginning of our crazy one month backpack. 

Next stop, Cesky Krumlov. =]

We took bus from Prague to Cesky Krumlov (CK). Took us quite some time. So we took the chance to sleep in the bus. 

As we reached, we spent some time figuring out to look for our hostel, Penzion Krumlov until we got some little German guidance from a helpful Germany lady. Well, that does require certain level of common sense on gesture as we all can't speak German. But well, we survived that, even though we took the longer way to climb up a hill, and make a big big round to reach our hostel.

As we go around looking for the hostel, I was suprised by the stunning scenery of CK. The architecture of houses are like those we seen in the storybook. How beautiful that i fell deeply in love with this small little town, which I had not known for the rest of my life until this very moment.

Houses in CK

Look at the sky <3>

We checked in to the pension and took a little rest before we went for food hunting in the town. Our room is so spacious and nice. The receptionist is definitely very friendly and welcoming, even though she did not understand English very well, but she does tried her very best to help us out.

Tadaaaaa.. well designed room =]

Cosy dining room =]

Nice garden =]

A random beautiful house that caught my eye xD

 As we go for food hunting in the town, we took some night scenes of the Český Krumlov Castle.

The castle n I <3>

It took us around 15 minutes to reach the town. The sky is really dark by then and most of the shops are closed. Leaving only the restaurants that are serving dinner. We went to one of the recommended restaurant and it was so crowded, so we made our reservation for the next day and settled in this Bohemian Restaurant for dinner tonight. Dinner time =]

Interior of Restaurant Bohemia

Snap snap!!

Our dinner <3>

Chicken breasts with tomatoes n cheese..Yum yum xD

Chicken slice with spanish n rice

Steak n Cheese

The real good B.E.E.R xD

 Who can miss dessert after dinner? Not us girls of course.

Crepe with fruits =]

Apple Strudel, one of my fav xD

After dinner, we make a little walk around the city and back to our pension to prepare for the trip next day. Most importantly to polish up our language skills a little to smoothen communication with local people in CK.