From the Alps reaching into the clouds to the lush Danube basin, the Free State of Bavaria is a place that delivers everything the clichés promise. Fairytale castles left behind by a Bavarian king, cowbells jingling on the necks of their cows grazing in flower-strewn meadows, lederhosen and dirndl dresses worn by people in their medieval fortified towns as they go about their modern-day work as if they have traveled back in time.