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museums Vienna
42 Reviews It amuses me to see the uninitiated walking in to a butterfly house. Being a slightly worldy man I had ventured into one before and the first, second and third things you notice are - it's bloody hot...
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Mirabell gardens Salzburg
8 Reviews We were three blocks from Mirabell Gardens and walked by them a half a dozen times without realizing what it was. On our last day, we discovered them about 20 minutes before our bus was to leave for a...
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Mountains around Innsbruck Innsbruck
15 Reviews There are several cable cars up into the mountains on either side of Innsbruck. At least two have cafes at the top. We walked up from this cable car to a viewing area and from it we could see the...
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1. Bezirk / 1st District Vienna
62 Reviews Due to a limited time, and bad weather conditions, I have explore the central part of the town only. Actually, I was in Vienna couple of times before but have never snaped any picture. What you see on...
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Travel tips and assistance Salzburg
16 Reviews If you buy the Salzburg Card, you get 1-time free entry to all the attractions in the city, all public transport services (zone S), discounts on cultural events and discounts on several trips, tours...
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Old Town (Altstadt) Innsbruck
17 Reviews The city tower is situated in the old town, in the square where is Goldenes Dachl too. The tower was built in 1440. The roof was renovated in XVI century. It is possible to go upstairs and to see...
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Hofburg Vienna
54 Reviews This was a temporary structure raised in front of Hofburg (you can see the city hall in the background). It was probably some kind of presentation of an exhibition taking place inside Hofburg. I was...
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Sightseeing by foot Salzburg
12 Reviews Here is some useful information about Salzburg for you just in case: www.salzburginfo.at tourist@salzburginfo.at tel.+43 0662 88 98 70 fax +43 0662 88 98 7-435 Salzburg Guide Service ...
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Churches Innsbruck
17 Reviews If you stay your back to Hofburg and then go along the street, along the old university, to your right hand then you see Jesuitenkirche, built in 1646.It is a place of graves of Jesuits Order members...
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Schönbrunn Vienna
105 Reviews The initial animal collection at Schounbrunn was formed by the stock of animals from the former palace of Neugeboude and the menagerie belonging to the Belvedere. These animals - with the exception...
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Mozart Platz Salzburg
11 Reviews Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in this town and you can visit his birth home that is located in the old city center. He was born in 1756 and died in 1791. Mozart is touted as one of the greatest...
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Useful Information Innsbruck
10 Reviews The great variety of Innsbruck's cultural and nature program can be enjoyed at particularly reasonable prices with the Innsbruck Card since the holder gets free local transportation as well as...
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Hundertwasser Vienna
19 Reviews The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, built after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser with architect Joseph Krawina as a co-author. This...
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Altstadt Salzburg
6 Reviews City tours starting at 9.30 a.m., 10 a.m. and every hour until 5 p.m are quite popular among the visitors of the city. You can make reservations at +43 0662 87 40 29 sightseeing@panoramatours.com ...
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Personal Memories and Impressions Innsbruck
20 Reviews This park was originally founded as a hunting ground. Later it was declared a public garden. There are various plants and a small lake here. At one of the entrances of the park there is a...
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Ringstrasse Vienna
44 Reviews Dating from the 1820s, which "Graecomania" in Vienna was at its height, the Theseus Temple is a replica of a 5th century structure in Athens. It's a major focus of attention inside the Volksgarten,...
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Dome/Cathedral Salzburg
9 Reviews This is going to be hard to explain. Looking directly at the front of the Dome, walk back so you are past the statue of Mary and through the arches across the way. If you back up far enough and then...
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Bergisel Innsbruck
11 Reviews Bergiesel was built to Winter Olympic games of 1964. 40000 people could watch sport events. There is wonderful panorama of the city from the stadium. Every year, January 4, one of the stages of...
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sightseeing & day-excursions Vienna
21 Reviews Bratislava is in just a short distance from Vienna and you may take the S-Bahn from Gaenserndorf - it will take you in less than 1 hour to Bratislava.The return-ticket on S-bahn is less than 10 Euros...
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Pferdeschwemme Salzburg
3 Reviews We stopped by to take some picture at this pool because we saw beautiful murals on the wall, little that we know…it a horse pond or bathing pool for horses a long time ago. Well that interesting...
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Food and Drink Innsbruck
5 Reviews Well this is another specialty, that you don't have to miss. Sachertorte is a chocolate cake, invented by Franz Sacher in 1832 for Klemens Wenzel von Metternich in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the...
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Stephansdom Vienna
31 Reviews The red-marble sepulcher of Emperor Frederick III, sculpted from 1467 to 1513 by Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden; the pulpit, a work from 1514-15 by Anton Pilgram (who put his own relief portrait...
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Hohensalzburg Salzburg
7 Reviews This very well preserved cannon and thee others just like it remain aimed out of the portals of Hohensalzburg's Katze bastion. The heavy cast iron portal doors remain open these days. The bastion and...
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Helblinghaus Innsbruck
8 Reviews One of the highlights in the Innsbruck guidebooks is Helblinghaus. It is situated to the right from Goldenes Dachl, in opposite lines of the houses. It is an example of burgers house of XV century in...
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Classical Music Vienna
25 Reviews Several ways to purchase tickets: 1) Call the ticket offices of the venues (Staatoper, Musikverein, etc) ahead of time. The Viennese speak excellent English. 2) Attempt to reserve on the venues'...
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As a kid, we used to go skiing in the Alps at Easter time. We went to Schladming - wich was great for kids and adults. Skiis were rented and the rusty skills were soon history.Competing with eachother downhill was really loads of fun.This is my fondest memory. I hope to come back in adult life - BUT THE WORLD IS TOO BIG ! SO MUCH TOO DO AND PLACES TO SEE AND SO LITTLE TIME !! - Sigh!
A weekend in Kitzbühel/ Tirol!!Okay, I admit it. Sometimes I have a lucky hand and so I won a weekend in Kitzbühel for two persons. :-))Unfortunately at first there wasn´t enough snow to ski and then there was far too much (see picture)and far too stormy to have skiing fun.It was ok, because we didn´t need to pay for it. ;-))Also we had sauna and a swimmingpool in the hotel, and besides the main theme in Kitzbühel seems to be: party, party, party...The pubs are quite crowded even it was low season at this time and for some strange reason they only sell beer in 0.3 or 0.2 glasses (But I am usually thirsty!! ).
Where I came from is probably the world's most open economy i.e. Singapore. We've got no choice but to trade and hence I've come to believe that any country that doesn't sell anything to us or through us can't be rich. Until I come across Austria, that is. A country so achingly beautiful that it probably can survive, nay prosper on tourism alone. Tourism is about the only industry where you earn foreign exchange just by sitting there; literally. No wonder I hardly see any Austrian good in Singapore, they don't need to! People just go there to spend money without them having to sell anything across their border. I've been to Vienna twice and can't wait to go there again. In a different season perhaps. I just can't recall where I took this photo. The interior of this church was refreshing cooler than the summer heat outside and WOW what majesty indeed! No 2-D photo is ever going to do...
There's quite a lot to see in this beautiful country. Depending on what one's fancies are?. The museums of Vienna are quite a site. There's beautiful Salzburg, always an ideal place to visit, anytime of the year. I have been in Vienna and Salzburg twice, and I still have not seen enough of these places. You can also enjoy the Danube river with all kind of activities, where the Viennese really have lots of fun! People from all over the world, come to visit this picturesque and fairytale country. The city of Vienna, so majestic and impossing. Where it still seems that emperor Josef will come around the corner with his entourage. I will always remember when I heard the waltz music in the park, It was a beautiful spring evening and the city started to come alive.
My first impressions of Austria were of the Tyrol region whilst travelling by train from Italy to Germany. Spectacular mountain scenery. If you don't want moutains then visit Vienna for a really beautiful city with many fine buidlings.
Go to a small town called Grunau. There is a great **** hostel (yes four star) there called the Treehouse. Its only 1 hour from Salzburg via Wels. The train trip is beautful too as you go through the snowy fields (or green in the summer I suppose) and head towards the looming mountains.The hostel is only a 3 minute walk to the slopes where you'll find easily the cheapest lift passes in the world (ha well from what I've seen anyway!!). You don't have to worry about ski gear, the hostel lends it to you. Though its always hard to drag yourself away from the cosy TV room to face the cold.The hosts are so friendly (yes I used to work there) you'd swear you were staying over at a mates house.When travelling throughout Europe this was my European home.They don't need to adverise as word of mouth keeps them busy. Once you've come you'll never want to leave and if you do it won't be long before...
Visit the castle in Salzburg, preferably walking to it from another hill or taking the tram up from town. Walking is great, as you hear bits of Mozart's music wafting up the hill from various locations in the town.For those of you who love to drive, the Grössglockner Road in western Austria (near Zell am See) is a wonderful route full of switchbacks, beautiful scenery and a giant glacier. From one of the peaks along the road (there's a marked turnoff to a gift shop and viewing tower), you can see about 7 of the other higher peaks in the Alps. I love high-performance cars and had an absolutely fantastic drive here (some of the BMW ads on TV showing the cars on mountain switchbacks are filmed on this road). The Grössglockner drive was absolutely wonderful, but dinner at the castle in Salzburg ranks right up there, too.
come and visit more than once, and......once in each seaon of the year because each season has its own charm..........I wouldn't be able to choose which one I prefer...... a have a dear friend there, in Vienna and it is so good to visit a country or region where you have friends!!
Drive around and enjoy NATURE. There are so many flowers and beautiful sky scapes and mountains. Just drive and walk as much as you can and look, look and look again.
Salzburg: You must wander up the steps to the old monestery on the Kapuzinerberg at night and sit on the benches along the old defensive wall to gaze at the spotlighted Old Town below -- best done with a 'significant other'. It's got to be one of the most romantic spots in Europe. Evenings spent with friends listening to Schrammlmusik in a tavern; the strains of Mozart drifting out of the windows of the Mozarteum conservatory, etc., etc., etc.
Hotel Imperial Vienna
6 Reviews and 237 Opinions the hotel imperial is located downtown within walking distance of many of the sights of vienna. this...
Hotel Sacher Salzburg Salzburg
9 Reviews and 310 Opinions I stayed here for a weekend in the spring of 2011. The staff were lovely, the food (especially the...
Best Western Hotel Goldener Adler Innsbruck
5 Reviews and 245 Opinions I really cannot praise this hotel more highly. It stands in the heart of the old town just a few...
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