findings offer some explanations. the brain paradox, comprehending climate change. in 30 minutes on d, w. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word always been equal. rico is in germany to learn german. why not learn with him a simple online on your mobile and free to shop. t w's, e learning course, nico speak? german made easy. ah, ah, ah. oh, a with oh. today i'm in bavaria in southern germany,

or more precisely mitten by the small bavarian town nestles and be else with them. i've come here because i want to spend some time in the mountains 1st on bike and later on. foot with bavaria is one of germany's most popular tourist destinations. the regions incredible variety of landscapes make it a paradise for those seeking a more active holiday. so it looks like i'm going to get a lot of exercise. and while i'm here, and while i'm added, i want to find out the ways in which the corona virus pandemic and climate change are affecting tourism. here in the apps, what are the challenges mass tourism poses to this mountain is region one big draw or the many fanciful castle built by king lewd faced the 2nd

ah, but will also visit dubrovnik, where a check in viewer will show us how the corona crisis is affecting her hometown in my destination, is the shopping. a scenic point in the british dine mountain range, ludovic. the 2nd had a house built up there for the 1st leg of the journey. i've reserved a bike. i know i. hi, nicole. welcome to make the climb a little easier. i've decided to rent an e by bus and then is there anything i should watch out for it? i mean, most things the feelers and probably the most common error people make it overestimating the situation. got accomplished with the bikes will take you just about anywhere. they offer a lot of power. this is then suddenly you're at the summit and can't get down before this. it's easy to over extend yourself. that's why you should be careful on the descent. keep your hands on the brakes. take your time,

go slowly and enjoy the nature around. you don't come shooting down his throat as she is. as soon as i leave mitten balls, i am immersed in the beautiful bavarian lands. the paths are wide and the ascent is still manageable. after a couple of minutes of riding through the forest, i arrive at a lake lout se, but i still have a long way to go with just the nation today is the king's house on shakin that can only be reached on foot or by bike and that isolation suited like the 2nd just fine because to well, he wasn't much of a people person. he liked to have the beautiful bavarian landscape, all to himself, something that becomes quite apparent. if you look at the various palaces he built in his kingdom. came say

the largest lake in bavaria. it was here that king lute vick, the 2nd had his luxurious hail him came se palace built, no expense was spared. it's just one of several residences leudemann commissioned. at times he labored over plans for 3 palaces at once. mood vague, admired the absolute monarchs of france. katlyn came se palace was intended as a replica of her cy, except that it was neither a seed of power nor a hub of social life. king lou big was trying to create the illusion of a bygone world, which he chose to enjoy in solitude. in the duncan, after sunset with 35 servants, had to light all the contents in the palace. after that untruth they all had to vanish. beautiful ring for the king whom i could be alone. hearing in cross

visible from far and wide, yet seemingly unapproachable noise feinstein castle at the foot of the alps. the most famous of all his castles, it too was built for lute vig and loot that alone. he was enthralled by tales of the middle ages. the singer's hall was meant to be a tribute to the age of chivalry and its culture. but lute big was also a product of his time. he loved technological innovations, his nights, castle feature, telephones, and running water boot vig never lived to see the completion of either noise bunstein or the headland came. se palace not far away is the only palace the bavarian king. so finished linda hoff, new vig. the 2nd actually lived here for some time, surrounded by a vast park. it's thought to have been his favorite palace.

and back on the trail. my uphill battle begins with the scenery looks like a painting and the weather to day couldn't be better. it may be peak season, but i seem to have the place to myself after one last steep climb. i think i deserve another little break. and so it's nice to see the vet, ash dying out. a rustic alpine eatery at an altitude of 1400 meters. what's it like to live in a city typically overrun by tourists? and how has that changed since the coven 19 pandemic began in this week's edition of our segment me to local. we'll find out what the help of a viewer from dubrovnik, the croatian city, has been struggling with over tourism for quite some time.

hello, hello and welcome to dubrovnik. my name's dora pitcher. i'm from dubrovnik, but i lived in frankfort for a few years and returned to my wonderful home country. after finishing high school, i'm going to show you how beautiful dubrovnik is and why levied some as yet. ah no tenants begin moons what will start her on the city walls? is there not any the pride of dubrovnik but of all croatia in it? not in 1979, the old city and these wolves were added to the list of unesco wold heritage sites . ah, or pull it from, you know, even though it was unesco, world heritage site. in 1991, the city was attacked by serbian and montenegrin forces, yet up at the walls, remained stunning until today in my mom. ah no,

my love as of a normally they would be thousands of people up here at this time of year when i got because of the corona crisis, they are noticeably few a tourist this year than last. when can we local? i don't think it will that bad, though. now we have the place all to ourselves. ah, did i buy the best beer? dubrovnik is from our own mountain. sit up there. that's all you can walk up and go . you can take the cable car with us. i suggest we take the cable cars today because it's so hot. i've been fined by their houses. mm. mm. mm. it isn't that amazing. you can see everything from up here, local island to the village of south and the airport. behind me we can see all of dubrovnik. it's a magnificent view. ah

oh yes, and so now we're back down in the old city behind me as the main entrance to the old town, the pillow gay gates come on come smith ah sob ivan fentanyl now are under broadnix main street and its most famous street called straw to england is on it starts at the big or north rios fountain with its 16 waterside. this thin bothell sh bye on. ah ah. as a father nathan says, jordan is our main street and very important in our lives. since we do so many things on the street, when i, we shop here, drink coffee and spend time with our friends and families need a coin. we just loved this st. laws are strong. our book that you're mr. swash that just imagine last year it was so crowded here you could hardly move. you had to push people aside just to get through them with my boyish compton hall and to day

as you can see it practically empty. let fall fast complet lab ah, ah buffalo to low strolling through a def rodnick is competing without visiting the beautiful play to my lead. my favorite is i st jacobi. yeah. i get the history of the broadnix ultimate ah tough. i hope you enjoyed our tour. we look forward to seeing you here in dubrovnik with them. nick, tell them i d o u v the most of the widow nichol ah no

rest for the weary. it's time for the 2nd part of my track, but i won't be making the ascent to the king's house on shock and all by myself. stefan adon will accompany me. he's a mountain guide from mitten, but he says the mountains have a calming effect on him and that sometimes you just need to stop. look and listen. we got them. how did you come to be a mountain guide? oh stop. it actually started with my parents on it. we were always in the mountains on concrete up and then while doing my military service, my past seemed preordained hope. brooklyn i became a mountain leader for the armed forces. i just kept spending more time in the mountains, even in my free time to come in, put it back and things just turned out this way. go into school system. i will say

i gave them yet. can you tell me as a city kid, what a mountain guide does like an o seat input in c p, it has changed a bit of his been for in that in the past the people who came here usually had some experience. i'm sure they'd already done a fair amount of hiking lavonne, which nowadays many people are just looking to have an experience and tend to be ill prepared, even boy, owned i think. so that poses the biggest challenge if it's in to my sense of you people come with any previous experience, you have to teach them. everything was starting without a walk, does come through neglected no default. that's the way it is, which will yessenia india, myself and i was just healthy lisa latham with. what should i look out for? if i want to hike around here, the 3 sticks. there's any, the most important thing is to be in good condition and have a bit of energy in reserve so you can enjoy attention over. so that is name that sealy. it's possible to rush around. i see a site though, and then dash off shops to this. the point isn't whether or not you reach your goal, but what you get out of it. yeah, and him, i mean, we're seeing this more and more if most people go to hard like they're always

pushing themselves to the limit. and that's really a shame because then you don't take it was all around you and then pick you need a little something in reserve for that at the hospital this every day and taking the time to veer off the beaten path, add to the pleasure of any training all right, before we continue our hike, let's take a quick look at the impact mass tourism has on some of the most popular regions here in the ups. a skip pulled to vomit on soccer movies when you say, okay, this can quarantine from this to which traffic it puts a strain on the pot seeking. it's really hard and the hiking trails up above flustered the large crowds put a burden to the local population. the communities and the infrastructure, the valley in the summer director of the streams of visitors and providing useful

information is crucial home my extreme v. sticklett. the stampede of visitors to our 2 destinations has noticeably increased in these days of the corona virus pandemic. if visitor counts in the algo alps or anything to go by, as long as people stick to the model trails and lead nature and peace of louis and heiner is fine with that to the people like to be in natural surroundings. lake van is particularly popular. it's a delicate balancing act, protecting nature, while permitting crowds of people to have some fun in the sun. these days, the rangers only got out in pairs. communing with nature means different things to different people. is retros wyrick, managing the crowds is getting harder. i one of my colleagues that we are more like people minders than conservation officers. is that you are you hear it, they threatened to call the lawyer who got me,

but then i go to threats or call you name sort of be from. and all you want to do was clarify, finish was was a korean protected plant species growing the nature reserves and conservation areas around the lake. for example, the marsh helper in in restricted areas, people often build fires which is not permitted or lisha with cigarette baths. the hotter the summer, the more people head into the water as many as a 1000 per day at the book, an egg waterfalls in the are going often they get close to sensitive areas and so little consideration for the environment with its rare plant species. the more popular a spot like this becomes the greater the threat to its nature

on such silly so worries, as, as this trend toward sharing individual experiences with a large, already lives. i think on social media platforms like instead from intern, give us a sally, me, daniel instagram, information about an incredible sunrise over him until he got to have all these more people come out. these spots even in typically after time just son that so that is a prompt there than feedstock i do not run through. and i truly gives me cause for concern that that's actually saga may be one way to help is to avoid those popular spots altogether. ah, we're getting close to the top on the side of the trail, stefan points out some yellow gentian to me. it's a plant commonly found in the alps. it thrives here at an altitude of some 1800

meters. ah, that's what that was worth. it is not bad, not at all. and there it is. i can see my goal. the king's house on shahan at the foot of the vet. i stein ma'am. mm. the i've seen a back there tourism and climate change are said to be threatening. the alpine flora and fauna on is that something you see yourself. thank you, spend a lot of time in the mountains and he was a feelin embankment a big ah tourist move. in the case of tourism. yes. some good. so there are popular spots like the touched bit to summit that are really overrun by masses of tourists . but as you experienced yourself to day while we hardly saw anybody on our way up is feeling false. can you like to go from this get? there are really quiet areas you will, for instance, in the call vendor range over there. it's all good, even in peak season,

and we're at the absolute peak of the season right now. you can be all on your own . thank on the key milan does for climate change. we haven't felt very much yet for lifestyle. maybe it's objective because you don't notice gradual changes as much in the woman. and it's so dark on him to overcome. but we've always had a few tough winners and some very mild ones. maybe we've had dry winters and we've had lots of precipitation. we've, we've had flooding, and then we've had very dry years. it's always changing. but there are things that stood for me. i noticed that for instance, with the o zone almost soon as you become more sensitive, but maybe that's age ah, of in the, of the info. yeah. in any case i do notice something that's true. honest with you. think of what i don't feel it's causing a great deal of change for us infinities of info you sort of thought the like the wonderful experience last these is the one thing that's very different this year is the corona virus school. when

a lot of people are spending their holidays closer to home, many germans are staying in germany. what have you noticed here in the region and the us dyna i found out these as ya here in delhi given, given our films is, is it's been somewhat stressful for us because we can't make long term plans and have to react fast to the changes. ah, dykus, this synth but the guests are noticeably more relaxed than in recent years. i did the stuff relaxed in the sense that most readily accepted when you say that they can't do something or other quotes, and there's not so much i want it. and i want it now, which has been something of a trend the past few years ago, and that can get really unpleasant. we're not seeing any of that. people seem happy with whatevers possible in school. i hope it will stay that way for a while. plan a little paradise right outside your door. thanks for showing it to me. yeah, my pleasure. i can handle the last stretch on my

own. the king's house is now in plain sight. of course, king ludovic didn't walk up here himself. he had servants to carry him in a litter. ah, this summer the king's alpine hide out is closed and compliance with social distancing and hygiene guidelines. but after the long hike, we definitely want you to see what it's like inside compared to lose weight. the seconds other residences, the king's house on shakin seems almost modest. it was built in $1872.00 and the style of a swiss chalet blue. in spite of the beautiful swiss pine paneling, the living quarters on the ground floor come across as relatively plain, seemingly out of character for the fairy tale king mm.

the upper story, however fully reflects its creator. here moving the 2nd, had a sumptuous hall, built in oriental style, crammed full of gilded carving, lit, through stained glass windows and decorated with fine rugs, magnificent chandeliers, and peacock feathers. mm. the turkish room with its fountain in the centre provided a spectacular backdrop for the king's birthday celebrations. isolated high in the bavarian alps, he recreate at the magical world of the arabian nights. ah, ah! well the king's house remains closed during the pandemic, the former servants quarters, now

a mountain in have reopened to the public. mm. back and look face time. this building served as a store house. it's also where the king's meals were prepared for over 15 years. now it's been run by the lightened bower family leave. you don't want to lighten b. do many people come here to learn more about the life of king lewd vase, or are most just hikers ready for a break the he had last night and one. this is her dish will. it's too bad. the house is closed at the moment ago, but the, the hikers are usually keen to see the place this thursday, and they know there's something special to see in the upper floor. so many want to go in as turbos before. that is him. yes. mistook stop. it on some days, 250 or 300 people walk through the house. was he pissed to 240 crisp round up his haunting talk dish was. i'm constantly there to guide from the linda of palace or who give hourly tours for up to 30 people the, you know, the thought of hopefully maxine, but they tell visitors all about ludovic and his connection to this place built in

hope in from the clear to you and boss with him, can you complete his to had to come out? they had to lance at what relevance does that all have for you to see as kit agnes in thinking crime in this area. there's really no other place comparable to it uses to the quantity of swiss pine is unique in bavaria, for instance. and the panorama is simply fantastical current deals as it skips, there's nothing else like it. this is the shock, that's the beauty of it. i am so glad no trains come up here for that is when otherwise it would no longer be the way it is. now, the, the antics to you to use this is the only lodge that's been preserved in its original condition and has not been replaced with a new one, like the other lodges or been repainted as it's to do with some bowsprit. philippe couldn't do. we're very proud that everything here, so old americans who settled status was not. so i'll talk to you soon. as you

probably know, there's usually a spot reserved on the show for your travel experiences. this week we'll show you a video shot by iraq, krishna, p. lie from india before the pandemic, he visited the attire, nature park, and corolla, home to the world's biggest bird statue. ah, ah moon, [000:00:00;00] oh, oh

ha! ah, mark marie, i just before reaching my final destination, i have a close encounter with a stubborn local it. this won't work yet, i didn't expect that. did you see? quite nicole. one cow mill. ah, i'm only in the house. ah, this lookout point is where my journey and king lewd, vague had the belvedere built, not far from his house. from here,

the view of the rhine valley is simply breathtaking. if you haven't got anybody to carry you up the mountain, a height like this is pretty intense, but the journey is the destination right. plus, there is nothing like that feeling of satisfaction. you get, once you reach the top and you get this view, so extremely exhausting, but also extremely worth it. mm mm. ah, ah,

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