Day 3: Passau

For Day 3, the boat moved from the backwater dock in Passau to the main city dock. We hopped off and explored the town on foot.

We stopped for a snack at a traditional German pub. Nothing like a cold beer when it's 95 outside.

Passau has some magnificent structures on top of the hill opposite the main town. It's a 420 foot elevation gain on the hike up, but worth the view of the city. The city is at the confluence of the Inn and Danube rivers. The Inn flows down from Salzburg at the foot of the Alps and it milky white-green from the glacial sediment. The Danube is normal brown river color. The salt trade flowed down the Inn and from Passau could go in both directions on the Danube.