Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Beer Garden - Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Kris Kringl Store 
- Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Native Indian Dance during Salmon Festival
- Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Downtown Leavenworth, Washington, USA

German-style 'Umpa' Band 
at King Ludwig's - Leavenworth

Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Leavenworth, Washington, USA (9/18-19/2009) - Leavenworth is a spectacular town about 2 hours west of Seattle in the North Cascades - a must go-to if you are in the area.

The residents of Leavenworth made this old mining town into a Bavarian-style village – the whole town! (see photos) You would think you were in Germany and soooo cute. It was hard to hold Pat back.

We met a German couple that live in Barvaria and they told us they love visting Leavenworth. Because of modern development, they believe Leavenworth is more 'Barvaian' than Barvaria in Germany.

We hit Leavenworth during their Salmon Festival where they cerebrate the coming back of the salmon with Native Indian dances and lots of other fun stuff. We enjoyed learning more about salmon and northwest birds of prey (e.g. eagles). Did you know that 80+% of salmon are now hatched in hatcheries and less than 1% of those make it back to lay their eggs naturally?

King Ludwig’s in Leavenworth is a great place for dinner with a German style ‘umpa’ band - again, great fun (see photo). The Kris Kringl store is a huge year-round Christmas store with great Christmas inventory.

Please also see our 5 other blog posts for the beautiful state of Washington, USA:

USA Washington Gig Harbor Tacoma

USA Washington Orcas Island San Juan Islands

USA Washington Port Townsend Olympic Peninsula

USA Washington San Juan Island

USA Washington Seattle

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