Permanent waves, soggy schnitzel, and accordion tunes in Bavaria’s landlocked capital By Michael Scott Moore January/February 2008 Issue SURFING THE EISBACH in Munich's English Garden ...

English Garden (Englischer Garten) is ranked #2 out of 24 things to do in Munich. See pictures and our review of English Garden (Englischer Garten).

With its soothing streams, miles of peaceful pathways and lawns loaded with lazy loungers, Munich's Englischer Garten (English Garden) is an oasis inside the busy Bavarian city. Especially if you ...

Beer and Leberkäs (similar to Baloney), sun and fresh air in the bustling Munich - that’s the beer garden experience at the Chinese Tower.

Surfers who ride the wave of the Eisbach, a small canal, have become a major tourist attraction in Munich. For years the sport has been prohibited on the river. But state and city officials may ...

The Eisbach is a canal that flows through Munich's iconic English Garden park. In one shallow section, it forms an artificial standing wave about 1 metre high that is popular with surfers.

Started in the 1970s and illegal until 2010, today an ingenious band of wetsuit-wearing adventurers has turned the Bavarian city into one of the world’s more unlikely surfing capitals.

The man-made wave, a result of a fast moving river gushing into a channel, has been around for 30 years inside the English Gardens, Munich’s version of Central Park.

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There’s a special wave machine on the river here for surfers to perfect their standing technique all year round. Best spot to see them in action in their wetsuits is from the Hirschanger Bridge. 7.