After breakfast I took off back to the road. From here the route went through a lot of small towns until I came to the town of Immadingen. If it seems like all the towns end in ingen, in Schwabia I think they do. After Immadingen the Danube sinks into the ground and disappears for about 155 days of the year, and goes through the very porous limestone until it comes out about 200m lower downstream. Because of all the rain there has been in the last month I did not get to witness this phenomena, so I kept trekking on. At Niederdingen I was tired, it was getting dark so I made my camp alonside the river and went to sleep. When I woke up Sunday morning I could hear church bells ringing all around the valley. I got cleaned up and dressed and headed of through the Schwabisch Alps.
Walter that sounds so beautiful. It's very different, but in a way it reminds me of an experience we had in the Caymans. We were snorkeling and it started to rain. Being on the surface with your head under water, you don't hear anything, but you feel each heavy drop as the rain hits your back. Very sensory.
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