and historic university town situated in  southwestern germany this was the final stop  

of our trip across germany and while we only had  three days here we still managed to cover a lot of  

the main attractions in the old town in this video  we'll be touring the ruins of heidelberg castle  

and exploring some of its gems in this travel  guide which include an enormous wine barrel and  

the apothecary museum we'll wander through  heidelberg university which happens to be  

the oldest university in all of germany and  at one point had an infamous student jail  

plus we'll hike the philosopher's  way for epic sunset views  

we'll stroll along the banks of the nakara  river and we'll enjoy some hearty german  

and international dishes along the way because  you already know how much we love food so if this  

sounds like your idea of a good time we invite  you to hit that subscribe button and join us on  

this tour for some fun ideas of things to do in  heidelberg germany in our heidelberg travel guide

so let's start this tour with a visit to the  city's best known attraction heidelberg castle  

or rather its ruins the red sandstone ruins  of heidelberg castle sit on the side of a hill  

on the south side of the nakara river you can  take a funicular to reach the top but we decided  

to walk up the earliest castle structure  dates back from before 1214 with multiple  

expansions that came with each new ruler in 1537  the upper castle was destroyed by a lightning bolt  

and that was followed by more damage due to fires  and wars and then if you can possibly believe it  

lightning struck again in 1764 causing another  fire which destroyed some of the rebuilt sections  

so yeah this castle has been through a lot  and that's why it currently sits in ruins  

all right samuel we made it to the schloss the  schloss heidelberg's most famous attraction of  

course is the castle and we ended up walking up  here yeah easiest castle walk of our trip and  

we've been up some pretty steep ones so we decided  to walk up amazing path to get up there and then  

as soon as you enter you have the option of paying  nine euros for a self-guided tour which we did or  

it's an additional six if you want to join the  official tour guide where you get an audio guide  

and everything and we're like i will mention the  only way to see the interior of the castle is  

with a guided tour yeah so we're only seeing the  courtyard exactly so the first thing you notice  

when you get right up to the top of the castle  is the intricate details the facade it's very  

impressive it's pink it's pink it sure is it kind  of reminds me this is weird but it sort of reminds  

me a little bit of of jaipur and india some of  the pink the pink fortress is there we started  

off at the viewing platform for the best views of  the city and then we came in and toured the castle  

itself there were two really interesting things to  do the first was going to the pharmacy museum yes  

the apothecary yeah and it's like almost like  traveling back in time to a period of alchemy  

all the different bottles and the powders and  the measuring instruments all very fascinating

so let's talk about the pharmacy museum  also known as the german apothecary museum  

this is a really cool museum that's  located within the castle complex and  

it offers a look at pharmaceutics from the  early middle ages to the early modern age  

here you can see all sorts of substances that  were used as remedies one curiosity is that in  

the 16th century pulverized mummies were seen as  a highly valued remedy and they were used to treat  

ailments ranging from a cough to a broken heart  so let's be thankful for advancements in science

hello hello

and now let's jump to another  impressive attraction in the castle  

the heidelberg ton this enormous wine barrel can  hold 221 726 liters of wine and it reportedly  

required 130 oak trees for its construction  access was closed on the day we visited and  

it was kind of hard to film behind the glass  doors but it was massive and then we went to see  

the biggest barrel of wine yeah and we thought  it was the first one that we saw but no  

that was huge but then there's the actual biggest  one is behind glass and it's so enormous that you  

have to look at the staircase next to it to get  an appreciation of just how big it is so yeah  

overall we had a really good time at the castle  there's plenty to do and yeah you can budget a few  

hours here there's also a michelin star restaurant  that wasn't open we didn't visit that but there's  

plenty to do up here so it is the main thing  to do in heidelberg germany come check it out  

we then spent a bit of time  strolling through the castle gardens  

here you can see some rather unusual  sculptures like this three-legged trojan horse  

plus there's also a really nice lookout point  if you haven't had your fill of old town views

while we were exploring the old town we  also visited the church of the holy spirit  

which is the largest and most famous church in  heidelberg germany this church is located in the  

market square in the old town center and it can be  seen from numerous vantage points across the city  

inside the church features  towering red sandstone columns  

and lots of stained glass windows  which makes it feel quite bright inside

another nice thing to do in heidelberg  is to go for a walk along the banks of  

the nakara river which is lined with  mansions and villas the north side has  

a nice green area where lots of people go to  lounge enjoy the sun and even have a picnic

and for a sunset activity you can't  miss a walk across the old bridge  

where there's usually some live music

we then strolled up the philosopher's way  for city views featuring heidelberg castle  

set aglow with that soft golden light we are  beginning our walk up the philosopher's way yes  

we finally got rid of the crowds busy on a  saturday it sure is i tell you and we are  

on the path to enlightenment yeah up this hill  apparently there were vineyards in the past yes  

yes have you read about that used to run through  vineyards and it's named the philosopher's way  

because many philosophers and professors used  to meander here on their way to the university  

the whole town it's fascinating it's very narrow  there's just no one else at the moment actually  

as soon as i said that there are people  coming but there was no single file now  

are you finding it steep okay is he in shape for  this well we have been hiking for a while so yeah  

it's not so bad and we also might if we get enough  exercise in we might have some korean food tonight  

so korean restaurant on the way here  and we're like yeah we're craving that  

yeah maybe we'll we'll earn our summer well we  made it to a lookout we've got the church bells  

going off we do how's it how's it it's fantastic  the view from here is the best we've got of the  

city so far just an incredible view of the old  town castle up on the hill the dominant cathedral  

in the center of the square and just the  old architecture yeah it's fantastic for  

you and we're earning that meal and that golden  light and that golden delicious dolce bibimbap

so

so every once in a while we get a hankering  to eat some korean food after all that time  

living there and today is one of those days so  don't judge us harshly for not having german food  

we have been in germany for a month now coming  up don't worry it really is so yeah we randomly  

stumbled upon a korean restaurant just down  the street from the main cathedral so i  

got some sundubu jjigae haven't had this in  forever so i'm beyond excited a beautiful ban chat  

all the things necessary for a happy life right  in front of us how is it so good this is the  

real deal it's taking me right back to korea the  right level of spice oh perfect right texture tofu  

i love how they bring the spice oh yes especially  with the banchan i i started coughing with one of  

those that gives me confidence that i'm gonna have  lots of gochujang in mine so thumbs up english  

super all right sam tell us about your dish i'm  so pumped for this guys this is the tulsa bibimbap  

it's a stone pot rice my favorite korean  dish and it comes with an egg that i break up  

and a whole bunch of different vegetable  ingredients very colorful very delightful  

the only thing left to do is to mix it up  that is what the dish calls for so oh and

spice in there i'm going to put that on the  whole thing i'm going to put that on like  

there's no tomorrow we each definitely have  our go-to dishes when it comes to korean food  

it's funny we usually order you usually get your  sundubu jjigae and i tend to go for this we love  

tons of other korean food too but when we haven't  had it for a while this is what we tend to order

look good yeah that's a real deal  awesome you've been my happy place  

hey hey hey night and day comparing saturday and  sunday with today being monday on the weekend  

the center of town was absolutely packed it  was actually so crowded that i don't think  

i really got to appreciate just how beautiful  and charming this part of town is i mean all the  

old architecture the facades of the buildings  intricate details i'm only appreciating them  

actually today i wasn't able to  on the weekend with the crowds  

but today it just feels like we're  kind of exploring this part of the town  

we won't have it all to ourselves  but there's hardly anyone here

while we were wandering around the old town  we also visited the jesuit church which was  

built in the baroque style from 1712 to 1759  the church has served many purposes over the  

years it's been a military hospital a university  library as well as an actual church we were lucky  

enough to visit when oregon practice was taking  place so we also got to enjoy a bit of the music

did you know that heidelberg university is not  only germany's oldest university but also one  

of the world's oldest surviving universities well  now you do this university was founded in the year  

1386 during the time of the holy roman empire and  that alone is reason to visit but now for a rather  

unusual attraction let's talk about heidelberg  university's student prison that's right  

dating back to the 1780s this prison was a way of  punishing students for misdemeanors and it was an  

operation until 1914. apparently during the last  few decades of its operation it became a bit of a  

joke and students would purposely try to land  in the student jail as a rite of passage and  

a way to immortalize themselves on the walls they  would also invite their friends to visit and host  

jail parties so yeah it was eventually shut down  i don't know what i thought a student prison would  

look like but this certainly wasn't it the place  honestly felt more like a student art project so  

if you're looking for some unique places to visit  in heidelberg this one is worth adding to the list

okay so we just finished visiting the  student jail here at the university of  

heidelberg obviously the jail is no  longer active it is no longer in use  

but there was a time when the naughty students  could get thrown in there for things like dueling  

yes or perhaps getting a little rowdy and singing  in the middle of the night i mean as one does duel  

about singing it's like you're so annoying yeah  you're going in jail for something probably like  

some drunk rowdy i bet if we were just saying we  would have been put in jail neither of us can sing  

a tune can we but yeah it's a really cool place  if you want to visit it's three euros per person  

and you just go into the university bookstore  and you can pay for your ticket there and then  

you get a 10-minute time slot and yeah you can  just go up look around lots of cool graffiti yes  

that build it looks like it could be in berlin to  be honest with the graffiti yeah it looks like it  

belongs in berlin yeah it's fascinating uh i just  enjoyed i mean you have to look up to the ceilings  

too there's just graffiti everywhere it's cool  how they kept some of the old bed frames yeah  

and we also noticed the old pot toilet yeah flip  the lid letting go yeah so to be honest 10 minutes  

is enough to see it yeah so and it's definitely  worth it i i think it's a neat quirky attraction  

and it kind of gives you something really  interesting to do here in the city so definitely  

recommend it yeah and i think it's even better if  you can read german because then you can actually  

read the little messages the students left behind  some of their poetry yeah unfortunately we could  

appreciate that but um we did we did find it  interesting though and uh yeah that was cool  

10-minute attraction guys there you go well we're  wandering around old campus here we couldn't help  

but notice when we purchased the tickets to go  in the jail which also happens to be like the  

official university store there was a cap that  said 1386. and this is how old this university  

is it's quite amazing what i really like about the  campus is how they've integrated some of the older  

buildings with some more modern ones right beside  it they've done a really tasteful job of that and  

uh yeah it's just been fascinating to see how a  campus is just like right in the heart of a town  

so different from from canada where campuses  usually are on the outskirts they're not right  

in the central area imagine being a student here  being that close to the where all the action is

one restaurant we really enjoyed in heidelberg  germany was hak toifu this place had a super  

warm and cozy feel and after wandering around  in the cold we were ready for a hearty meal  

all right guys so i'm trying a  new to me dish this is called  

maotashin and it was described as a giant  ravioli it kind of almost looks like a bit  

of a lasagna like there's dough and there's  meat and there's bacon and an onion sauce

we're in a really cool restaurant aren't we  very rustic inside rustic pub feel love the way  

it's decorated here lots of antiques and musical  instruments it's very cool vintage photos vintage  

porcelain yeah i would call it like a german  meatloaf it's like a german meatloaf german  

meatloaf yeah very i'm gonna come cool potato  salad yeah even a real salad same with mine