Viking River Cruise - Day 4 Mannheim/Heidelberg

 

 

After a night of passing through locks, the next morning found us well and truly in Germany and tied up at Mannheim.  Our morning excursion was the beautiful university city of Heidelberg on the Neckar River.  After the now familiar hubbub with tickets for buses etc we spent about 30 minutes travelling to Heidelberg. Peter and I had spent a couple of hours here on our last tour and we really wanted an opportunity to explore the city in greater detail.

 

Our first stop was Heidelberg Castle which was described as a ruin - a bit of a misnomer as there were still substantial parts of the castle that were intact:

 

We then spent some time wandering the cobbled streets and looking at all of the shops!  We returned to the ship for lunch and cruised to Rudesheim. In the evening we took the optional dinner tour to Rudesheim - it was great to have the little train pick us up and bring us back to the ship.  We enjoyed the optional tour but again nice but overpriced!