Pictures from this trip.
Karen signed us up for a tour to go to Kutná Hora and Sedlec which is a suburb of Kutná Hora. In Sedlec there is a Roman Catholic chapel that contains an ossuary(place for final resting place of human bones). The Sedlec Ossuary is amazing. It supposedly contains anywhere from 40,000 to 70,000 human skeletons that have been arranged into various shapes and used to build things.
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Kutná Hora was known for being a mining town. It it's heyday it was second only to Prague as the most important city in Bohemia. While there we visited St Barbara's Church and the old royal mint. The church is amazing. We took pictures but they don't do it justice. The place is massive. Inside there are numerous chapels and frescoes. At the mint we took part in an English tour. It was interesting to hear about the history of the silver dinar and how it helped propel the area into prosperity. But as soon as the silver mines dried up, the town was forgotten.
So those were the major things we saw as part of the tour. The other interesting part of it was the constant game of stay away from the stinky guy. There was one guy (and his wife) on the tour that had some kind of strange cologne or aftershave on. He had alot of it on. It made Karen nauseous. So we were always trying to find the best place to stand to be upwind from him and close to the tour guide. Fun!
Now let me complain, er... talk about the actual tour. The good thing was having transportation arranged for to and from the town. It was about an hour from Prague by bus. There were only about a dozen people on the tour so Karen and I could both have window seats on the bus. The bad? It was a rush job. We had no chance to stop and explore side streets, shops, strange smells, etc... Though the tour guide seemed to suggest there wasn't much to see or explore so maybe it was ok. After this tour we decided no more guided tours (until our next trip that is).
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