Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Bone Church in Kutná Hora
Today was AWESOME. A bunch of us decided to go to Kutná Hora, a really small town about an hour outside of Prague, where the famous Bone Church is located. There was about 20 of us that went this morning, and it was definitely interesting trying to catch the transportation over there...
Since we were out of internet for the past day or two, we only had one person who knew the directions of getting over there and what train to catch. Needless to say, it was a challenge. We had some people purchase the wrong tickets, myself included, about 15 minutes before the train left, so we had to quickly exchange them and then sprint for the train right before it departed. And we made it just in time- definitely an experience!
Once we got there, we went to visit our first destination: the very morbid Bone Church, also known as the Sedlec Ossuary. It is ridiculous how many skeletons are packed into this one little church in a town stuck in the middle of nowhere- around 40,000 skeletons, all belonging to people who died of the bubonic plague. It was really overwhelming to enter the church and immediately see thousands of skulls greeting you as you walk in! I put up some more pictures of it all on my online photo album, I definitely recommend checking them out.
After that, we all split up for lunch and some of the group took the next train back to Prague. I decided to hang back with some of the other people to check out the rest of the town since we had the rest of the day left. We basically just wandered around, walked up to the St. Barbara Church, ventured down some roads where we didn't know where they went... it was a really nice way to spend the day. There was a lot more to the town than I expected, so I'm really glad that I stuck around for the rest of the day to check it out.
Very picturesque, right?

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