4. The restaurant 'Pilar' is at same time a bar. Fine noodles, salads and original Mediterranean creations will be served. On side panels of restaurant hang sumptuous baroque paintings, which offer an interesting contrast to simple Design of bar, leather seat and wood table.

5. In elevated ‘Villa Merton' (Mansion Merton) you find meals of all-finest. If it permits your travel budget, go here. The employees speak English and recommend to you gladly specialities of house.

Sightseeing and culture

6. In Goethe house and Goethe museum Goethe was born in year 1749. He lived here until 1775. The house was outstanding reconstructed and contains paintings, handwriting and diagrams of large German poet.

7. On 'Roemerberg’ (Roman mountain) regularly highlights and meetings take place. It is a long stretched, five-angular place and is gladly visited by humans. At this place is 'Frankfurter Roemer’ (Frankfurt Romans), famous city hall of city. It was reconstructed after war. In festival room of Roemer pictures of German emperors are to be admired.

8. In 'Pauluskirche' (Paulus church), which was established between 1787 and 1833, first German national assembly met in 1848. It is a place of historical building method and historiography.

9. The 'Senckenberg Museum’ is largest scientific museum in Germany. You find here a descriptive collection of approximately 500,000 exhibits, which arrange for you an overview of development of our animated nature over millions of years. It is simply impressing.

10. The 'Palmengarten’ (palm garden) shows a domestic, tropical and subtropical Flora. The emphases of 20 hectares large park are over 300 orchids, ‘Bromelien’ and about 1,600 different cactus species. Concerts also often take place here.

11. In 'Frankfurt Zoo' approximately 6,000 animals (650 kinds) live together in extensive outdoor installations and houses. If animals interest you, you must go here. Plan however at least five hours for your attendance.

12. When it becomes evening, you absolutely MUST go to 'Berger Strasse’ (Berger road)! On 2 km (1.3 miles) you find taverns, Bars, Cafés and restaurants for each taste! Here you surely will NOT become boring. If I am in Frankfurt, this road is a must for me, again and again.

Enjoy your trip!

Marcus

www.smart-travel-germany.com

Almost everyone has heard of Sphinx with its missing nose, and some might wonder how he actually lost his nose. (Do not believe what you saw in Disney cartoon Aladdin) Almost everyone has seen many pictures, or perhaps Discovery channel, showing Sphinx in various angles. But you have to visit it, to stand there right next to it, to realize why both Sphinx and Pyramids are most famous man-made structures in world. Just front paw of Sphinx is larger than a human being!

The Wonders of Nile

The architectural wonders of ancient Egypt are not limited to those at Giza. As you travel along Nile River (incidentally longest river in world), you will come across other monuments. Chief of these is Valley of Kings near Luxor. It is here that many kings from many of ancient Egyptian dynasties were entombed. Each tomb is unqiue and is a wonder in its own right. Unfortunately, most of treasure that was entombed with pharaohs have long been stolen by tomb raiders. Only well-hidden tomb of Tutankhamun managed to survive more or less intact to this day.

Further south, near town of Aswan, are famous temples of Abu Simbel. Constructed during reign of Ramses II, better known as Ramses Great, these two temples feature much-larger-than-life statues guarding entrances. And beautiful hieroglyphs still adorn walls of temples.

The few monuments I've mentioned are just a small fraction of many wonders that can be found in Egypt. If you have any interest in ancient civilizations, or want to know more about wonders of ancient Egypt, you owe it to yourself to visit this ancient land before its wonders are eventually swept away by sands of time.

If you would like to know more about wonders of Egypt, do check out following sites:

Pyramids of Giza http://www.nekhebet.com/w_pyramids.html Sphinx http://www.nekhebet.com/w_sphinx.html Nile River http://www.nekhebet.com/w_nile.html

And if you want to learn more about other aspects of Egypt, do visit http://www.nekhebet.com