Hamburg PADDLEBOARDING THE RIVERS, LAKES, AND CANALS OF GERMANY'S SUP CITY

90 million visitors per year can't be wrong; Hamburg is one of the top destinations in Germany. The city’s visitors come for different reasons. Many love the cosmopolitan harbor, where you can get a glimpse of the sea-faring life watching cruise ships, container freighters, tall ships and sailboats, right from the heart of the city. Others come to experience the “Reeperbahn” quarter, the red-light district where the Beatles started their career. Music abounds in the Hanseatic city. There are hip hop artists and smoky jazz clubs, musicals, festivals, and concerts of all kinds- from the plentiful array of pubs, bars, restaurants, and taverns in the Reeperbahn “party mile” to the famous opera house Elbphilharmonie, which locals call “Elfi.” Museums showcase the city’s art and cultural heritage, though astonishingly, it is the “Miniaturwunderland," Germany's largest model railway that claims the highest number of visitors, even more than the nearby Castle Neuschwanstein. Still, what many don’t know is that Germany's second-biggest city is a water lover and SUP paddler’s paradise.