First day in Germany

In the early morning we were off to Erfurt, which is the capital city of Thüringen. We bought the Länders ticket which costed us Euro 13.50 after sharing the ticket price with Zek.The original price was Euro 27. The first time I've been in Erfurt, and I started to love this place. This place was quite similar to Weimar (very nice place indeed, especially for studying)!The surrounding looked medieval and historical. The simple words to describe these two places were "calm and fresh". And the calmness released my blocked mind.Sightseeing in Erfurt took us 3 hours. The places that have been visited by us were the shopping mall (I bought a pen drive stick, 4GB for Euro 8.88 only. Unbelievable cheap!), sightseeing on the Krämerbrücke (they created a tourist town on the bridge, can you imagine that?),took photos at a church that has only one wall left, currently used as a location for mass concerts, visited Erfurt castle St. Petersburg, and many more that I tend to forget the details. But one thing for certain, I can't forget the tasty and cheap Beriyani rice at one of the Halal shop in Erfurt. And in fact it is the only Halal restaurant in this place. The lamb and grill chicken were so good and must try if you go to Erfurt!


From Erfurt, we headed to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Buchenwald is a prisoners camp during Hitler's governance from year 1937 to 1945 (if I was not mistaken). The site was full of cruelty and torture and showed no mercy to neither men nor nature. The prisoners were Jews, Gypsies, political people, homosexual and etc.In fact, nobody deserved this type of brutality! In this place, we visited the crematorium, the SS soldiers barracks etc, but one place that I couldn't go inside was the basement that was formerly used to hang people. My friend told me that when she entered the basement, the smell of sterility of the place hit her nose. So, I decided against my keen intuition to have a look into the basement. Not to forget that during the night, I can't sleep and even had to wake Am up, to accompany me to the nearby toilet in our friend's house!


The last destination on our first day trip was, Jena. Since we were so tired with the whole day sightseeing, so in Jena we just walked to shopping mall and I bought a pair of Hunkemöller lingerie there which costed me Euros 15 after 70% reduction, hehehe..and then, after that we off to sightseeing around the Jena's town. Took photos and return to Weimar to fully rested before starting tomorrow's journey to Leipzig!