By car

If you don't feel like hiking or cycling but would still like to explore the region -- there are plenty of places well worth visiting on a daytrip by car:

Rope bridge Geierlay (18 km / 11 miles)

Photo: Kreuzschnabel/Wikimedia Commons, license: artlibre

Bacherach on the river rhine (29 km / 17 miles)

Photo: Peter Weller

Mainz, capital of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (79 km / 49 miles)

Photo: Immanuel Giel

Marksburg near Braubach (47 km / 29 miles)

Photo: Heribert Pohl

Koblenz, where the river Moselle meets the river Rhine (known as the "German corner") (40 km / 25 miles)

Photo: Holger Weinandt

The medieval castle Burg Eltz near Moselkern (29 km / 17 miles)

Photo: Holger Weinandt

Bernkastel-Kues (55 km / 34 miles)

Trier, "Germany's oldest city" (94 km / 58 miles)

Photo: Claus Thoemmes

Idar-Oberstein with its legendary "Felsenkirche" (Church of the Rock) (65 km / 40 miles)

www.deutsche-edelsteinstraße.de

Photo: Harald Gärtner

Keltensiedlung Altburg in Bundenbach an der Burgen- und Schieferstraße (46 km / 29 miles)

www.hunsrueckreise.de

Bad Kreuznach (61 km / 37 miles)

From here, it is only a short distance to Bad Sobernheim with its famous open-air museum and the unique "bare-foot-path"!

Photo: Axolotl_Nr.733