27 Hours in Prague

In my quest to travel to as many places as possible around Europe in the short time that I’m here, the first place crossed off that list is Prague, or Praha as the locals call it (and I think it sounds cooler). I had gone with my partner, Kaelonni, for a short little weekend endeavor, roughly 27 hours, and although we weren’t there for a long time, we went to some pretty cool places and saw many beautiful sights.

How’d we get to Prague?

We left for Praha on Friday morning, taking a train from the main train station in Brno to the main train station in Praha. Taking the train in Europe has to be one of the greatest things ever. I haven’t had the most experience, I’ve only been on a European train twice, once while sleep-deprived coming from Vienna, and this journey to Praha being the second, but out of the experiences I’ve had, I cannot complain at all. This is definitely the American in me talking though, you can’t take a train in the United States without it being delayed for a while, being super costly, and just inconvenient. A train in Europe though (at least in my case) barely gets delayed, doesn’t cost much at all, and it’s a convenient way to go around the continent. I’m hoping I don’t eat these words up in the next few months with the more traveling I do. Anyway, enough yapping about how much I like a European train, let’s talk about Praha.

Muzeum fantastických iluzí (Museum of Fantastic Illusions)

The Muzeum fantastických iluzí, or the Museum of Fantastic Illusions, was one of the first places we hit up. It wasn’t too far from where we were staying and it wasn’t too expensive either, so Kae and I decided to check it out, and it did not disappoint. The museum had many different optical illusions littered throughout, many of which we could take funny-looking pictures with. This place was such a random find for us, but it’s an enjoyable experience if you have an hour or so to kill before walking around the city of Praha for the rest of your visit (my feet hurt badly).

Pražský hrad (Prague Castle)

After a silly little museum, we walked over with our uncomfortable shoes (we didn’t plan well) to see the Pražský hrad, or Prague Castle. The Prague Castle was probably the most mind-blowing thing I have ever seen. The entire time we were walking and looking at this castle, I kept saying out loud that the castle was awesome and beautiful. We went to see the castle at night, which I imagine made it look so much more beautiful than if we went to see it in the daytime. I took so many pictures of the castle, so much so to the point where my phone storage is full (kidding, almost full though). We didn’t have a chance to look inside the actual castle, but if the outside looks as amazing as it does then I’d imagine the inside looks just as amazing.

Karlův most (Charles Bridge)

A bucket list destination for Kae, the Karlův most, or the Charles Bridge, was super beautiful to walk across, and I understood why it was on her bucket list. Across the bridge were many different sculptures and statues that were super big and genuinely some of the most beautiful architecture I have ever seen in my life. Similar to the castle, as I kept walking across the Charles Bridge, I kept saying out loud that the bridge and the statues on the bridge were beautiful. At this point, I had understood what made Praha such a beautiful city, the architecture, the history, our surroundings, it was overwhelming in all the right ways (Kae looked at me and said she told me so).

Národní muzeum (National Museum)

The last thing we did in Praha was right before we got onto our train back to Brno, and that was the Národní muzeum, or the National Museum. I’ve been to many museums in my day, but I felt like this museum was the coolest one I’ve been to yet. Maybe you’ll call it recency bias since this is the first museum I’ve been to in a while, especially in Europe, but I still think this museum is very cool. Kae and I anticipated only spending about an hour but we left after close to two hours after getting there, and we still didn’t get to look at absolutely everything that the museum offered. I especially liked the section on the different crystals, especially because they displayed crystals from different countries around the world, and there were sections about history and evolution that were super cool too.

Where to next?

Considering all the things I’ve done in Praha have been in Praha 1 and there are numerous other parts of Praha, that city has yet to see the last of me, but it won’t see me again for a while. I’m planning on heading over to a bunch of other cities soon in a bunch of different countries, so stay tuned for all the fun places I’ll be going to in the next few months because I will be annoying you about it profusely. 🙂