Scavenger hunt in Hamburg

Explore the German port city in a playful way. These experiences lead you past the Speicherstadt warehouse district, the Elbphilharmonie, the City Hall and the Landungsbrücken on the Elbe river.

150 pts
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Spot a Hamburg sailor cap or maritime souvenir

Find a maritime souvenir shop with sailor caps, anchor pendants, ships in bottles, lifebuoys. Photograph the display.

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200 pts
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Spot a Hamburg Schanze graffiti

Walk into the Schanzenviertel and find a piece of street art or anti-gentrification stencil. Photograph the wall.

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75 pts
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Spot a Hamburg ship from the harbour

Find a container ship, ferry or tour boat in the Hamburg harbour. Photograph the boat with the cranes behind.

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200 pts
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Spot a Hamburg ship-bottle (Buddelschiff)

Find a Buddelschiff (ship-in-a-bottle) in a maritime shop window. Photograph the miniature.

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250 pts
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Spot a Hamburg Sunday Fischmarkt stall

If it is a Sunday morning, find the Altona Fischmarkt with its loud sellers. Otherwise find a fish-shop window. Photograph the action.

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200 pts
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Spot a Hamburg Wasserschloss

Find the iconic Wasserschloss in Speicherstadt, the small red-brick tea-trader's house on the canal corner. Photograph the gabled facade.

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Spot a Holsten or Astra beer

Find a bottle or glass of Holsten or Astra beer (Hamburg's local breweries) on a bar. Photograph the bottle.

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Spot a HSV or Sankt Pauli kit

Find a Hamburger SV (blue) or FC Sankt Pauli (brown-white with skull) kit on someone or in a shop. Photograph the kit.

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250 pts
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Spot a Labskaus plate

Find Labskaus (Hamburg sailor's hash of corned beef, beetroot, potato, fried egg) on a brasserie menu. Photograph the pink hash.

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100 pts
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Spot a Landungsbrücken bridge

Walk to St Pauli Landungsbrücken and find the floating pontoons. Photograph the row of bridges.

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200 pts
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Spot a Miniatur Wunderland sign

Find the Miniatur Wunderland sign or entrance in Speicherstadt (the world's largest model railway). Photograph the sign.

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150 pts
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Spot a Speicherstadt warehouse and canal

Walk into Speicherstadt and find a brick warehouse with a canal in front. Photograph the warehouse reflected in the water.

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Spot a U-Bahn in Hamburg

Find a blue U-Bahn sign at a Hamburg Metro entrance. Photograph the U.

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100 pts
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Spot the Alster lake

Find a view of the Inner or Outer Alster lake. Photograph the boats, swans or fountains on the lake.

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Spot the Elbphilharmonie wave roof

Find the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in HafenCity, with its glass wave on top of a brick warehouse. Photograph the building from across the water.

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Spot the German flag in Hamburg

Find a German flag flying on a Hamburg building. Bonus if you also catch the white-red Hamburg state flag with the gate emblem. Photograph the flags.

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250 pts
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Spot the Köhlbrandbrücke

Find a view of the Köhlbrandbrücke, the cable-stayed bridge over the harbour. Photograph from a Landungsbrücken or harbour boat.

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100 pts
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Spot the Rathausmarkt facade

Walk to Rathausmarkt and find the Hamburg town hall (Rathaus) facade with its 112-metre tower. Photograph the building.

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200 pts
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Spot the Reeperbahn neon

Walk down the Reeperbahn in St Pauli (daytime is fine, but it really comes alive at night) and find a neon sign or pub front. Photograph the sign.

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Spot the St. Michaelis (Michel) spire

Find the Michel, the Hauptkirche St. Michaelis, with its bronze spire. Photograph the church.

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St. Michael's steeple from below

St. Michael's Church (Michel) has the tallest baroque steeple in Hamburg. Find a spot where you can see the green copper top and take a photo with the team pointing skyward.

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200 pts
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Trivia: Hamburg founded

Hamburg was founded as a fortress in roughly which century? (Just the century number is fine, e.g. "9th".)

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250 pts
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Trivia: Hamburg port rank

In Europe, Hamburg is the third busiest port. Which two ports rank above it (just one of them is enough)?

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Trivia: Rathaus inaugurated

The current Hamburg Rathaus was inaugurated in what year (one year off is fine, the answer is in the 1890s)?

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