The Country Of Castles (Slovakia) - Bratislava

Hello. We're in Bratislava, Slovakia and in this video you're gonna find out what

you can do in Bratislava in the timespan of the day

 

so the first place we are going to is Devin castle which is not actually

inside the city of Bratislava but it's only a 30 minute ride away by

public transportation or more around 25 minutes if you're taking a car but we

don't have a car so we're taking the trains and the buses

 

The public transportation in Bratislava, or maybe all of Slovakia, seems pretty

decent and the most surprising thing about it is how cheap it is. It's three

and a half euros for a full day pass that's around $4 and it's eight euros

for a 72-hour pass which is a lot cheaper than what it is in LA where I believe

it's seven dollars for a full day pass and it's actually completely free if

 

you're under 26 years old and a citizen of a EU country and I've never seen

anything like that before.

She doesn't need to sleep. All right we're in the town

we're in the town of Devin and we just saw signs leading us to Hard Devin. I'm

pronouncing that wrong but I believe that means Devin castle and it's cooler

today than we expected it to be or what Google told us it would be so it's not

 

exactly a tank top weather right now but that's okay because I have an extra

t-shirt. But it's not so okay for Anna because she doesn't have anything else

great. Okay so we totally just walked into the middle of a Slovakian film set

back there but we're finally here at Devin castle

we're in the castle grounds. It's two-and-a-half euros for entry with a

student ID but they didn't even check our student ID, but more importantly we

found the animals or the donkeys

 

after a lot of stares we're finally on top of Devin castle. To one side we can

see this really picturesque pretty town over here and on the other side is the

Danube River and I believe it's Austria or Österreich  as they call it in German

Österreich on the other side. This castle has a long rich

history. It's believed to be one of the oldest castles in all of Slovakia and I

think it's believed to be more than a thousand years old

this castle actually stands on what used to be the western edge of the Hungarian

 

Empire. Now Slovakia as a nation isn't that old. It came about about 25 years

ago after the Velvet Revolution but before that it was in Czechoslovakia

before that it was in the austro-hungarian Empire. It was even a

part of the Ottoman Empire at some point So even though Slovakia as a country is

very new, the Slovak people and the Slovak ethnicity and culture has been

around for more than a thousand years Fun fact: Slovakia actually has the most

castles per capita in the world .That's why if you go around the country you're

 

probably gonna run into a lot of pretty castles like this one

all right so we're

done seeing devin castle and at some point in the last two hours it went from being

Chile to being kind of hot to be honest and it's sunny right now, which is in the

worst because that's what I'm dressed for or what we're just for I guess. Now

we're gonna find ourselves some delicious Slovakian food

hmm? why does

 

Budweiser seem to be so popular in Slovakia?

so we were trying to figure out how the Slovakian menu works but thank God the

waitress came and saved our butts and we ordered this traditional Slovak meal

which is potato dumplings with sheep cheese and bacon

so that was a really

solid meal right there. It was nothing exceptional but I love cheese in general

and I guess sheep cheese is just as good as any other cheese and I really had a

hard time finishing it because there's so much food even though I was starving

beforehand I guess backpacking around for the last

three weeks or so has got me used to not eating a lot outside in order to save

money. Now we're gonna head to Bratislava to see more castles and more cool stuff

okay so a couple of hours later and we are in Bratislava castle which like the

name suggests is the main castle in Bratislava and we are in the castle

 

courtyard right now in front of the museum which is closed today for some reason

interestingly the hill where Bratislava castle is situated has been inhabited

for more than five and a half thousand years and that's precisely because of

its strategic location by the Danube river. If you didn't know, Slovakia the

country is actually placed in the dead center of Europe geographically, at least

according to some measurements and because of this reason Slovakia  has

 

often been the border lines between different empires and a place where a

lot of wars have taken place throughout history so because of the high altitude

of Bratislava castle, this place actually serves as an excellent viewpoint to

watch the rest of Bratislava. On a clear day you can actually see all the way

across to Hungary and Austria. In case you didn't know Bratislava is the only

capital city in the world that lies on the border of two other countries

 

we're at the back of the Bratislava castle and this part seems like it's the

most gorgeous part of this entire castle complex. The beauty of it isn't

surprising when you think about the fact that this was the main castle for the

Hungarian empire for i think about 200 years

so if you go down the hill from Bratislava castle and walk a couple

hundred meters you go into what used to be the old town of Bratislava which is

now a very trendy place with a lot of cafes and Irish pubs and all that jazz

and right now we're next to this very popular fountain called

Roland's fountain, which is right next to the old town hall. All right so if you

walk a few hundred meters from the old town hall and the fountain you get to

this massive and really pretty 500 year old Cathedral called st. martin's

cathedral which i think is worth checking out

i think we're gonna go get some ice cream because Anna's hungry

I got myself a chocolate cup and Anna's having some weird flavor I don't know

what it is right now  .... and cookies. Anyways

this is a pretty spot for having ice cream

 

the view from Bratislava castle was pretty good. But right now we're headed to

this place called the UFO bar observation deck which is supposed to

have the best view of Bratislava during sunset. So this UFO bar observation desk

is a bar that's located on a skyscraper that is in the middle of a bridge that

crosses the Danube River so it should be an awesome view nonetheless

all right so I'm at the observation deck of the UFO tower and it's not in the middle

of the bridge like i said earlier but that's on one side of the Danube, but

it does overlook the Danube and everything else and it's seven euros and

forty cents to get in here which is a bit steep for me I'd say. I would

 

probably not come back here and pay this price again but it's a pretty nice view

and if you have the money to spend I'd say it's a pretty cool thing to do if

you're visiting Bratislava I think the best thing about this part so far is

that they have free binoculars that Anna can't get enough of and there's also a

bar where you.. or there are also two bars downstairs where you can have beers

They do have a restaurant and if you visit that restaurant, you don't have to

pay the seven euro forty cents to come up here but I've heard a meal at

that restaurant costs around fifty euros and they charge more than five euros

 

just for the water so unless you're looking to buy a really

expensive meal this is probably your cheapest way to do this

so it might have been four euros or seven euros to get up here but this part

definitely has the best view I've ever seen from a bar especially at sunset time

and the beers really aren't that expensive. I think this was around four euros

I think coming here is definitely worth it Go to this observation deck and have a

drink, if you're into that Or just have a burger

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