Walk down the left hand side of the Isar today, the left hand side being the left when facing in the direction that the river is flowing. Start following at the junction of the flood channel and the road leading to the railway station. Follow the channel until it joins the "Kleine Isar" and just keep on following the rivers course. There are long straight stretches on the dyke, and after the big river and the lesser one have joined the first reservoir starts, The dykes get higher, and just before the power plant the way is blocked.
It is necessary to leave the river and to walk around the power plant and its associated switching station. After the power station there is another dyke. There is a footbridge with a signpost. Eight kilometres to Landshut, nine to Ohu, those are the choices.
Walk an down to Ohu, nine kilometres is not so bad. The river is wide and straight here, and has the potential of being very deep. There is not much water in it today, the weather has been quit dry.
The river widens into another lake, very large even when compared to the first one. There are many different species of bird in the air and on the water. There are scores of cormorants enjoying the open water. Watch them dissapear and then reappear again. Never really know whether it is the same bird.
The atomic reactor at Ohu is wildly spectacular, an enormous building with an even larger cooling tower. Next year it will cease production of electricity, it will be removed from the grid.
After circling the reactor walk on downriver and cross at the bridge in Niederaichbach.
And then walk back to Landshut, it is dark long before the outskirts of town are reached.
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