Winter

What is recommended in leisure time? 😊

Enjoying the snow ❄️🌨️

  • Cross-Country-Skiing in the Thüringer Wald, like Oberhof [more] ⛷️ There you can also do snowboarding 🏂

  • Sledging down the hills, if you have the equipment. 🛷 Recommendated places: Napoleonstein/Windknollen, Trüperwiese, Meadow behind Beutenberg Campus

  • A snow hike is exciting, but also more exhausting to walk in the deep snow. Creating a snow man is fun, especially when the snow is sticky ⛄

Occasional Events 🥳🎉

Christmas market Jena [more] 🎅🏿

  • from beginning to 23rd of December

  • Two separate markets: one at Market square, the other one at Faulloch

  • The typical drink in Germany for the Christmas time is mulled wine (Glühwein). The alcohol free version is called Kinderpunsch.

  • There is a tent (Apres ski) next to Jentower (just next to Subway) where they play German Schlager music and there are fun games to play in December

Christmas market Erfurt [more] 🧑🏼‍🎄

⚠️ What to care about while hiking? ⚠️

Winter Hike Starter-Pack

  • 🧥 Warm clothes, winter Jacket

  • 🧣gloves, scarf, woolly hat

  • ☔ Rain jacket / umbrella

  • 🥾 sturdy shoes

Consider the cold weather 🥶

  • It is often below zero degree and slippery

  • On sunny days it usually colder