Starting from the Mariental bus stop, turn right, past a pond, into the Drachenschlucht.
Initially still wide, the walls narrow, rise steeply and form a wildly romantic gorge that is only shoulder-width in some places. A brook murmurs under your feet, which walk on lattice walkways. In winter, condensation and frost often form bizarre ice formations that can spread so far that the gorge is no longer accessible. You continue through the Annatal to the Hohe Sonne. At the Hohe Sonne there is a regular bus service to Eisenach.
If you return via the Wine Route, it becomes a beautiful circular route. Past the small Drachenstein, before the large Drachenstein turn left through the Landgrafenschlucht, you return to the starting point in the valley via the Wichmannpromenade. © Text: Tourist Info Eisenach