Travelog post for: Landroval

Hi Dad,

in the afternoon Katja met her friend Erika and we started today's trip to Wuppertal.

We took the bus to Wuppertal and started walking on the "Sambatrasse", a closed railway track. In this region you can find a lot of those so called "Bahntrassen". They are liked by pedestrians and as well by cyclists. Usually you can walk or ride through a town without much contact to traffic and street noise. This route here is about 9 km long.

We started in Wuppertal-Cronenfeld. Soon we passed this building. It's a waste incinerator.





We walked along abandoned train stations and allotment gardens.



It seems that someone found souvenirs along the railway track ...



We saw large stacks of wood, protected against burglary or maybe wild animals.



Most leafs are already fallen.



Suddenly we heard a lot of noise from cars. The route is leading along a motorway feeder.





A part of the Sambatrasse is crossing the Wuppertal Zoo. A bridge is build over the zoo, on the right side you can see the tiger enclosure. We even saw two tiger playing.



The tiger were so far away that we had to zoom.



We saw this funny sign on the bridge, just behind the tiger closure. It says

Info for the tigers - Meals on wheels.

Cyclists have to take care ...  (Maybe not only cyclists).



We reached the end of the Sambatrasse here.







Katja and Erika decided to enjoy a pizza before going home. That's what they always do when they walked along the Sambatrasse *gg*

Here you can see the one and only "Schwebebahn", a suspended monorail, travelling above the surface of the river Wupper.



On the right side of the next photo you can see a train leaving the station ...



... and an incoming train.



We went home by Schwebebahn and bus.

Bye
Landroval