My first vitist of the Bavarian Forest National Park had been almost exactly a year ago when I travelled to this beautiful place with a friend of mine at the beginning of October. At this time, autumn is already about to show its most beautiful face in the higher regions of the park. I had a very nice short-vacation there in May 2013, too, but photographically, autumn is unmatched. If the conditions are right, you get rewarded with breathtaking, moody sceneries in the forests and on the highest peaks like Lusen. In such moments, at the latest, you don’t mind sleeping in a cold and narrow car, getting up way before sunrise and climb a mountain through pitch black forests in the night.
Numerous creeks and torrents are flowing down the hillsides of the heights of the National Park, forming some pretty waterfalls from time to time.
Like a drawing, the beeches are standing in dense fog in the higher altitudes.
Even in autumn, jazzy green colors can be found in the deep, rainy forests.
The bark-beetle scarred forests around the peaks like Lusen and Rachel almost serve as a morbid setting.
An old, dead forest makes way for a new one.
When the first sunrays hit the distant hills and fog covered valleys, the view from Lusen is even more beautiful than you could imagine.