This park is know to few travelers but an amazing place to visit. From Dusseldorf its a 4 hour Journey by RE. With a weekend ticket of 30 euro upto five persons can travel
Myself and my wife we both started at 6:00am in the morning on 9th Nov 2008, because of some delay in the train we reached 45 min late around 11:00 am. From the main station there is a tram to the Castle park every 25 min.
We reached the park at 11:16 and started walking. Next to the stop where we got down for the park there is an information center where you can get a map of the park. After a 10 min walk from the starting point of the park we saw a huge building on the hill this is the Kassel Palace. Now its a museum and you will be able to enter into it only by taking a guided tour in German. So we had to opt out.
We just took some snaps in front of the palace and started walking to the old fort inside the park the fort is an amazing place as we went in the winter all the leaves in the fort garden were shattered and I felt I am back in ages while walking in the path which is covered by the trees on both the sides after walking through them you can see the fort.
After visiting the fort back to it there was a bus stop where you can take a bus to different parts of the park. We got into the bus after having some food what we packed from home and got down two stops from there. There is a path which leads to the status of Hercules that on top big tower which is in turn constructed on top of the hill.
After a 15 min walk we reached at the foot of the hill. At the foot f the hill there is a large pool and at one corner you can see the statue of Nereus (Sea God). To reach to the top of the hill you have stairs all the way till top and in between the steps on both side water flows step down. After reaching the top you see a large arena where again there is a small pool where you see two status on either sides from which the water sprinkle. After reaching the top you can see the breath taking views of Kassel City and the park. The views of park from this place are amazing during autumn full of colors. We were not able to go onto the top of the building where the Hercules statue was placed as the renovation work was going on. Then after spending some time we started walking down. At 4:30 pm we started back to Dusseldorf and reached home at 10:00 pm night.
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| From Kassel Wilhemsohe |
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| From Kassel Wilhemsohe |
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