A day hike to Andechs Monastery
One day 14 of us took the S-bahn to Herrshing and then walked about 4 miles up to Andechs Monastery for lunch and an Andechs beer. The monks make the beer – pils or dunkel – and they’ve added a schnapps-making business.
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Andechs monastery church
We’ve been there a few times so we know there are 2 different paths to take up (about 1 hour walk) or you can take the city bus #951 that leaves from the train station in Herrsching 2 times an hour and take 10 minutes. Eleven in the group walked while the other three with colds took the bus. Naturally, Mark and I picked the hardest route up (We can never remember from year to year whether to go left or right at the sign!) but we had a nice walk up and then we came down the other path. The walk up does involve 2 very long flights of steps – about 60 in each flight. We missed the rain and had beer and good food as a reward for our hard work.
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The steps we walked up during our hike to Andechs. (Thanks to Stephanie for the picture.)
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Enjoying beer and apfel strudel after we went inside to warm up after lunch on the terrace.
![Walking thru the meadow](https://361532.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/walking-thru-the-meadow.jpg)
Two routes to choose from Herrsching and one of them takes you through this meadow
![Pork Knuckle and Pretzel](https://361532.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pork-knuckle-and-pretzel.jpg)
Pork Knuckle and Pretzel for lunch
![Andechs beer](https://361532.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/andechs-beer.jpg)
Dunkel beer from Andechs