- Biking Along the Danube: The Lower Danube Cycle Track is a biker's paradise. The most exciting villages and stopovers along the Danube, including Melk and Durnstein, are linked by a riverside bike trail between Vienna and Naarn. As you pedal along, you'll pass castles, medieval towns, and latticed vineyards. You can rent bikes from the train or ferry stations, and all tourist offices provide route maps.
- Ballooning over Styria: Styria has some of the best alpine ballooning in Europe, as experienced by participants who have sailed over the alpine ranges of the Salzkammergut and a steppe-like landscape that evokes the Great Hungarian Plain. A typical ballooning excursion will cross river valleys, mountain peaks, glaciers, and vineyards.
- Canoeing & Rafting in the Salzburg Alps (Land Salzburg): Known for their beautiful alpine lakes and roaring white-water streams, the lakes in and around Salzburg are some of the most ideal in Europe for canoeing, rafting, and kayaking. Waters aren't polluted and powerboats are restricted, making these safe and idyllic adventures.
- Hiking in the Zillertal Alps (Tyrol): This mountain paradise is the best place to hike in Western Austria. Instead of roads, you'll find footpaths winding through the scenic Zillertal Valley, east of Innsbruck. Alpine guides lead you to some of the most panoramic scenery you've ever seen. This alpine world is yours as you hike across mountain trails or ascend on lifts to higher elevations. You can even find year-round skiing at Tuxer Gletscher, a glacier.
- Traversing Ice Age Valleys: No scenic thrill in all of Europe quite matches that available in the Hohe Tauern National Park, Europe's largest national park. Part of the Austrian Central Alps, the Hohe Tauern range cuts across Land Salzburg, Tyrol, and Carinthia. Molded during the Ice Age, these valleys are filled with pastureland, alpine heaths, vast expanses of snow and ice, forested bulwarks, fields of rock, and gargantuan alluvial and mudflow cones. The park is also home to numerous nearly extinct species. Much of this vast and remote area has never been explored, but parts are accessible by car or government-owned Bundesbus (the route goes from Bockstein to Badgastein and from Zell am Ziller to Krimml). You can get car or bus information from the local tourist offices.
Skiing is the name of the game in Austria.
Austria Travel Experiences
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Soggy Austria
We arrived into Austria at the tail end of their flood of the century! Since a weeklong bike trek along the Danube River was part of our... Continue reading »
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Wine Story
Austria's local wine is Gruner Veltliner -- a light, crisp white wine. Jim opened a bottle for our birthday dinner earlier this y... Continue reading »
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1st day in Austria
So it turns out we weren't able to see any castles in Germany. We were only there for 2 nights, and the first night we were just fo... Continue reading »
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Austria
Today we are set for Austria as we board the bus for a painstaking 7 hrs trip. The scenery was beautiful with all the high mountains.We... Continue reading »
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Goat Farming in Austria
The WWOOF farm we are working on now is terrific. We are in the mountains of Upper Austria near Czech Republic. The farmhouse is an old... Continue reading »
