Hey everyone, it's Lee here and I am standing over the city of Bakarak, I'm Ryan or Bakarak on the Ryan River and it's a beautiful day. It's late October and it's a little cool but it's a beautiful sunny day. You can see the grapes are nice and yellow. You've got a nice castle behind me, there's an old castle there and that is actually from the Middle Ages but now it's a youth hostel so you can actually go there and spend the night if you like. And beautiful so Bakarak, beautiful city, I try to get some nice shots that you can only basically see the hills over there. You can see the Ryan River but the city from the Middle Ages and very important city during the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages for wine, export and for transportation along the Ryan River of course but it kind of shut down and around the late Middle Ages around the 1600 or so and nothing much happened and it was kind of like a sleeping beauty on the Ryan River and nothing happened. In the late 19th century and in the 1800s people discovered it, tourists discovered it and it was kind of woken up and became a tourist hotspot for artists and wine kind of sewer so wine is very important and travel is very important. So a beautiful day here in Bakarak and we're going to walk around and take some more photos and thanks for joining us. Strolling down the main street we come to some of the most beautiful houses in all of Bakarak and truly some of the most beautiful houses on the Ryan itself passing by the Alta's house or the old house. It dates all the way back to 1389 and it's one of the most famous houses on the Ryan River and made famous truly by the artist who came in the 17th century and now there's a great restaurant inside and you can go inside and look at pictures of the town and it is truly fascinating. And then we'll come by on the right down the road there's the Alta Munza or the old coinage if you will and coins were made here back in the Middle Ages and if you look at the side of the building there's a plaque that has some of the history of the building and it goes all the way back to 1356 and today it's a wine bar you can go inside and have a nice glass of wine and relax a little bit. And then we continue to walk down the street and just exploring the city it's just fascinating although the old half timbered houses many of them have notes or have messages written on them and if you understand German if you can read German you can read what some of these messages say some of them are very enlightening. A couple of my favorites are there's one that says I've seen centuries go by and through God's grace or God's goodness I persisted and then my real favorite one says wine and fun will make you happy and who could disagree with that right that's a pretty good message I think. I continue walking through the town towards the vineyards on the outskirt of town there's a small path through the vineyards that will take you to the post term the post in term or otherwise known as the centuries tower and it offers great views over the city you can you can climb up to the top of the tower and look that over the Rhine River and the vineyards great beautiful views provides you can look down and see the the church of St. Peter which can't be missed it's in the center of town the construction was started here and the 1100 it took over 200 years to complete and then looking over from the church you can see the ruins of the Verner Capella and this was made famous by Victor Hugo as he was touring along the the Rhine River and he wrote a book in 1842 in 1842 travel book and and he said this is backerak land of fairy tales covered with legends and sagas so I think that's pretty accurate description of backerak from Victor Hugo if you go back into town and you walk past the church of St. Peter and then you take the trail and walk past the Verner Capella you'll find a trail that will take you up up over the city to Berg Stalek which is a fortified or was a fortified 12th century castle which towered over the city many wars took battles took place here in 1632 it was taken over by the Swedes and damaged during the 30 years war it was repaired but then Louis the 14th the sun king of France conquered it and it was pretty much completely damaged destroyed in 1689 and laid in ruins for a while and then in the 17th century it was later in the 17th century it was rebuilt and then currently it's a youth hostel and it has family rooms and a restaurant it's a great place to to set and look out over the Rhine River with very beautiful views you can go either way through town up to the vineyards or up past the Verner Capella and hiking opportunities are endless many trails branch out over the village and over the Rhine Valley through the vineyards one of the the best routes is called the Statmauer Roondvig and that's about a seven and a half mile trail that circles the way of the old city wall but you can do part of it you can do the whole thing and just gives you a great view of beautiful views of the Rhine Valley and the vineyards and the village of Bacara so thanks for joining us today hope you enjoyed this tour of Bacaraque on Rhine if you liked it please hit the like button and subscribe to our channel give us a comment let us know about your experiences in visiting Germany visiting Bacaraque the Rhine Valley and what your thoughts are on some of the list is German wine thank you we'll see you next time