Up to peaks, through woods, over rivers and lakes: there’s no such thing as impossible in Bavaria’s magnificent natural landscapes. Hundreds of establishments with the motto ‘Tourism for All’ enable outdoor activities to be pursued with few or no barriers: summit tours, boat trips and handbike trips, for example. Your customers can find out about all these amenities online at https://bavaria.travel/accessible-holidays/, or find the ones that suit their needs using the search-and-retrieve function.
Bavarian Forest National Park Administration
Welcome to the largest forest landscape in central Europe! The Bavarian Forest not only includes the Bavarian Forest Nature Park and the Upper Bavarian Forest Nature Park, but also the Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany’s oldest. As well as primaeval forest and rare birds, these parks are home to wild animals such as the brown bear, the lynx and the wolf. So that guests with a handicap can experience this unique Bavarian wilderness too, there are some 90 places to visit, restaurants and accommodation facilities designated with the motto ‘Tourism for All’. One of the greatest adventures your customers can experience is certainly a visit to the free-floating viewing platform at the peak of the Great Arber at 1,456 metres – with a fantastic panorama. The platform can be reached effortlessly by wheelchair users and families with a pram, on the mountain cableway and then via a panoramic lift. Or what about a walk round the lake known as the Grosser Arbersee and a stop for some refreshment at the newly built Arberseehaus?
Bavarian Forest National Park Administration
Tel.: +49 8552 9600-0
E-Mail: poststelle@npv-bw.bayern.de
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Off up the mountain – Oberstdorf
Oberstdorf, at an altitude of 813 metres at the foot of the Allgäu Alps, is Germany’s southernmost municipality. It’s simply perfect for excursions into the mountains! Is there really such a thing as a mountain tour with hardly any barriers? There is indeed, and in fact it takes visitors on to the two local mountains, the Nebelhorn – 2,220 metres high – , and the Fellhorn. In both cases, your customers can ascend on the wheelchair-friendly cable car. In the summer, indeed, visitors who have a wheelchair with good brakes can even roll down from the Fellhorn into the valley on the winding asphalt road. The 7-kilometre round trip from Oberstdorf via Illerursprung to Rubi, a real hikers’ classic, is somewhat more relaxed. And if your guests prefer things to be a little bit more challenging, they can explore the Oytal starting from the ski jump ramp: the side valley begins with a sharp climb, but after that the asphalt road stays level all the way to the Oytalhaus, which is also one of the establishments designated with the motto ‘Tourism for All’.
Tourism Oberstdorf
Tel.: +49 8322 7000
E-Mail: info@oberstdorf.de
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Franconian Lake District Tourism Association
Spread out some 50 kilometres south-west of Nuremberg there is a veritable paradise of lakes. In the middle of it: the Altmühlsee and the Grosser Brombachsee. Extensive sandy beaches on the north shore – your customers can rent sand wheelchairs here – , shoreline woods and two marinas imbue the Grosser Brombachsee with an atmosphere that seems almost mediterranean. So clearly, there has to be a boat trip too. What about the trimaran MS Brombachsee, which glides across the water on its three narrow hulls? The vessel has very few barriers and is well known for its Sunday brunch and legendary 30+ parties which have been held on board for almost 20 years now. But the MS Altmühlsee too is suitable for guests with mobility impairments and offers exciting cruises with nature experiences, for example to the so-called bird island or the integrative environmental station on the Rothsee.
Franconian Lake District Tourism Association
Tel.: +49 9831 5001-20
E-Mail: info@fraenkisches-seenland.de
Tourism association in the district of Kelheim e.V.
First, up in the lift to the Hall of Liberation with its view out over the Danube Canyon, and then on to the riverboat, which has very few barriers, through the Danube Gorge to the monastery at Weltenburg: your customers can experience the most beautiful natural landscapes around Kelheim easily and comfortably in a wheelchair too. Or on a handbike, if it’s OK for it to be a little bit more athletic: there is, for example, a handbike variant of the cycle tour known as the ‘Weltenburg Tour’.
In the Chiemgau, people with mobility impairments will find a whole series of tours tailored especially for handbikes which, thanks to the flat terrain and low volume of traffic, are perfectly suited to this sport. The tours, by the way, have been tested by locals with handicaps. There is information on the routes in the flyer ‘7 handbike tours in the Chiemgau’, which also lists accessible and low-barrier rest stops and toilets.
Tourism association in the district of Kelheim e.V.
Tel.: +49 9441 207-7330