Buck­et List

Steel structures, stacks, and light installations – the Traumzeit Festival in Duisburg’s landscape park, a former smelting works, offers a unique location with an enchanted mood for all fans of music and festivals. On top of this, there will be three days of music played by bands from the areas of indie-rock, post-punk, singer/songwriter, folk, hip hop, and electro.
www.traumzeit-festival.de

A night floating in nature: spend your night dreaming while floating as if in a hammock between the trees right by the banks of a lake in the Dingender Heide. Climb the tree trunk stairs or a rope ladder up to your tent and enjoy a richly filled breakfast basket with sparkling wine as a welcoming treat and a sweet good-night wish – it’s the ideal weekend trip into nature.
www.dingdender-heide.de

Germany’s last herd of wild horses is at home in the Merfelder Bruch in Münsterland, where they are living year-round. Even though it can be tricky to catch a glimpse of the herd of 400 horses, the trip to the nature preserve is always worth your time.
 

Schloss Drachenburg is majestically towering on the Drachenfels mountain in the middle of the Siebengebirge range, affording visitors a breath-taking view of the river Rhine. Legend says that Siegfried, the hero from the Medieval heroic epos “The Song of the Nibelungs”, killed the dragon Fafnir here to bathe in its blood thereafter, rendering him invulnerable. If you prefer to avoid the strenuous climb, you can take the Drachenfelsbahn up to the summit instead.