Felsenmeer in Lautertal

About 40 km north of Heidelberg at the western edge of the Odenwald is a formation of big granite boulders that called Felsenmeer - literally a sea of rocks. A colleague had mentioned it and since Mia likes to climb on rocks - who doesn't - we thought we should check it out on a Sunday which finally had a bit of sunshine after a week of clouds and rain
From the visitors center one could see a fairly big  number of boulders but it did not really look spectacular

But somehow the stream of big granite boulders went on and one - higher and higher up the mountain. Mia didn't get discouraged and went on climbing

On the maps we could see just how long the way up was. While Mia was climbing we walked the trail along side the rock formation and would meet Mia at the different intersection that were numbered as rescue points

After a few hundred meters of climbing we stopped for a little break

 The Romans already used the area as quarry and many rocks are left were they had started to work on. The most famous is a huge column on top

For the way back down we just walked the trails

Once we were dwn we stooped at the beer garden by the visitors center for some ice cream and young wine