Sightseeing "Herkules": A view over Kassel

It's already half a year ago that we visited Kassel. It's quite in the middle of the distance between Mainz and Magdeburg. We're driving by everytime I visit my parents. Therefore we planned to spend a day in Kassel on our journey back to Magdeburg!
The city of Kassel isn't that beautiful. It's narrow and crowded. But there are some interesting places like the "Orangerie" and the "Auedamm". It's a huge park next to the riverside with lakes and little bridges and a large playground (yes, we played there as well :P - no pics from that! haha)
And - of course - the Herkules with castle Wilhelmshöhe! It's also a large park with meadows, lakes, brighes, little castles, rosefields and even a roman aqueduct. It's really really pretty! *_*

I made lots of pictures. And I regret again that I didn't take the good, heavy camera with me >_<! The pictures would have turned out SO much better >_< (it was really warm and sunny on that day and almost every picture came out in a awkward light exposure or turned out being blurry V_V;

Huge and beautiful park with view up to the statue of "Herkules"!

Castle "Wilhelmshöhe"

Wearing my "Sweet like candy"-Dress ^^

Resting at a lake

Aqueduct in the background!

Looks impressive!

View down the hill

.... and still a long way to go...

Kassel behind us

Incredible view from up there!

We climbed all this way up ^^

did I mention it was REALLY hot that day? ^^ (always making faces, lol ^^)

Cute castle on our way back down (sadly it was already closing the entry)

This should be my new home. It suits me :P

After all we spend a whole day in this park. It's really huge and you can walk hundreds of different ways and explore little castles and other attractions. It's quite a hike walkimg from the castle "Wilhelmshöhe" to "Herkules". And I hadn't got the best shoes for that ^^; There are a lot of gravel and country paths. And also a LOT of stairs ^^ (I had a bad muscleache after walking up there ^^) The statue of "Herkules" was under construction, that's why I couldn't take a picture of it :/
I can really recommend visiting this area! And take a GOOD camera with you, you'll need it!! ^^;;

... I just had to take a picture there :P

By the way, the dress I'm wearing is made by me. I named it "sweet like candy"-dress because my sister said I would look like a piece of candy in it xD