TIPS FOR TRIPS From this specially compiled folder filled with endless suggestions for activities whose exact descriptions, details and insider tips you can put together your own weekly activity. Your advantage: personally tailored for you week with a varied program, but where you have to worry about anything yourself. You will also find some activities that we can recommend you in bad weather. Boredom does not exist in Salzburg! Of course, the following pages are just a small portion of all the opportunities that are offered in Salzburg. Of course you can check at the front desk. There are also stored some brochures with detailed information for you. There are also about the changing weekly and monthly programs in the local area or in sights, markets, exhibitions, walking, cycling and mountain biking maps and their route descriptions to know at the front desk or on the Internet. We are happy to print your individual pages of this solution in the reception! We recommend especially in summer for hiking and biking tours in the morning to break, because at that time more pleasant temperatures. You can finish in the wellness natural garden views and afternoon. If you are planning a larger mountain tour: Give us about it. For your own safety, it is recom- mended to inform someone about the planned path and the goal. Inform and discuss also about the weather forecast. Save a phone number of the hotel or the local mountain rescue. We wish you a nice time with us at the Berghof! For questions or information, we are happy to help you further. Your Rettenwender family and the Berghof pampering Team TIPS FOR TRIPS The Rettenwender Family · Alpendorf 1 · A-5600 St. Johann in Pongau Tel. +43 (0)6412/6181 · Fax +43 (0)6412/6181-55 E-Mail: [email protected] · www.hotel-berghof.com ACTIVE EXPERIENCE AND ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS Krimmler Waterfalls Liechtensteinklamm Nationalpark Hohe Tauern Zell am See – shipping The Krimml waterfalls are the five highest The roaring waterfalls and rushing water The National Park “Hohe Tauern”is the largest If you just want to have a beautiful view over waterfalls in the world and the largest in have carved over millennia deeper and protected area in the Alps. Wild primeval the mountains comfortably from the water, a Europe. An impressive natural spectacle. deeper into the canyon. The rocks are now landscape and landscape cultivated by panoramic tour on the Lake in Zell am See is In the Aqua Park you can get nstructive in some places so narrow and high, that the mountain farmers. These are the two faces of just right for you. informations about use of water and its sky, in some parts, is only can be seen as small the Hohe Tauern National Park. With 1.834 km² power. A unique experience for kids! Discover strips. it is by far the largest nature reserve in the Alps. Or do you want a whole ship itself - then the fascinating properties and phenomena The protected area extends over vast alpine charter one of our four ships for a party on of the water. Water on the journey from Already in 1875 the people was fascinated primeval landscapes such as glaciers, rock the water. 45 minutes on the high seas and in the cloud to the thundering waterfall. At by this natural spectacle. So much that the faces and turf, as well as over the centuries 45 minutes you are in Zell am See. an exhibition, on the basis of water-wall gorge was made available for the general carefully and painstakingly cultivated alpine knowledge you discover more about the public with bridges and footbridges through pastures. The Hohe Tauern National Park was mystery of water. Take a day time to visit this a donation from the Prince of Liechtenstein, established in 1981, making it Austria’s first extraordinary natural spectacle. therefore also the name. The duration of the National Park. During the following years, trip is about 2–3 hours and you can easily the reserve on which the three federal states The journey time is approx. 75 minutes. reach the gorge in 30 minutes on foot from of Carinthia, Salzburg and Tyrol are involved, Prepare comfortable casual clothing and the hotel. became the largest protected natural area in firmer shoes the Alps. The journey time is about 35 minutes. Berghof’s Tip: You go partially over boulders. Hike only at good weather. Prices, further information and contact: Tourist office Krimml Phone: +43 (0)6564 / 7239 Prices, further information and contact: Prices, further information and contact: Prices, further information and contact: WasserWunderWelt Krimml Tourism office (Monday until Friday) Nationalpark administration Salzburg Schmittenhöhebahn AG 5743 Krimml Nr. 100 Phone: +43 (0)6412 / 6036 Gerlos Straße 18, A-5730 Mittersill Postfach 8, 5700 Zell am See Phone: +43 (0)6564 - 20113 www.liechtensteinklamm.at Phone: +43 (0)6562 / 40849 Phone: +43 (0)6542 / 789-211 www.wasserfaelle-krimml.at www.hohetauern.at Grossglockner High Alpine Road Mozarts city – Salzburg Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun Alpine Reservoirs The most famous alpine road leads you into Whether culture or shopping, enjoy a drink, a If there is yet tender sprouts in the valley The local reservoirs are surrounded by the heart of the National Park Hohe Tauern, coffee or enjoy the Salzburg specialties. The green, the Kitzsteinhorn still glitters in bril- impressive mountains of the “Hohe Tauern”. Austria‘s highest mountain, the Grossglock- city of Salzburg is worth a visit! Here you will liant white. The charming 3000 world offers The fresh mountain scenery, the rich green ner (3,798 m) and its glacier, the Pasterze. find entertainment for the whole family! both sunbathers and walkers as well as win- nature, the turquoise water of the reservoir At 48 km high alpine road, at a height rising ter sports a lot. and the snow-coverred ice peak of Gross- to 2,504 meters you will find a driving and The costs are quite different. If you plan to glockner group are intense impressions. nature experience of a special kind! For this, visit many attractions, inquire about the Take a day time visit the natural wonders you should allow a whole day! The journey “Salzburg Card”. It offers many discounts – around 40 minutes away by car. First, the Gla- In one of the constantly occurring dam time to Bruck / a d Glockernstraße is approxi- especially for families! cier cable car takes you up to 2,452 m to the tours to learn more about how water from mately 40 minutes. Alpine Center. From there you take the cable the “white gold” of the electric current is car to 3,029 m to the panoramic restaurant. generated. A little tip: Find out in case of bad weather if Further you go through a tunnel to reach a the road is open. viewing platform, from which you have a breathtaking view of the panorama of 3000. Recommended are solid boots and water- proof clothing. Tourist information: Prices, further information and contact: Prices, further information and contact: If you take the bus into the city, get off at the Glacier Kaprun Kaprun Alpine Reservoirs station “Mozartsteg”, cross the street and walk Alpin Center (2,450 m) Phone: +43 (0)6547 / 20019-23201 over the bridge. Then you just walk straight daily 8:15 – 16:00 clock Nikolaus-Gassner-Straße 321 Prices, further information and contact: ahead. Continue to the Mozart Square. On Wilhelm-Fazokas-Straße 690 5710 Kaprun Grossglockner High Alpine Road the Mozartplatz Nr. 5 is a tourist information 5710 Kaprun www.tauerntouristik.at Phone Ferleiten: +43 (0)6546 / 650 center. Here you will get all the important Phone: +43 (0)6547 / 8621 www.grossglockner.at information and maps. www.kitzsteinhorn.at Fortress Hohenwerfen The salt mines of Salzburg Salzburger Eisriesenwelt Adventure cave – Entrische Kirche High above the Salzach Valley, between the The unique journey into the depths of the The, until today. largest discovered ice cave It is not only the size of the halls, which makes Tennen and Hagen mountains, sits the 900 salt mine at Bad Dürrnberg begins with the in the world is a spectacular natural phe- it an experience to visit this cave, you will year old fortress “Hohen Werfen”, a former issue of the traditional mountain man cos- nomenon and one of the most daunting encounter wonderful stalactites and lime- fortress from the 11th century. The castle tume. All in white, you go with a small train cave systems in general. The beauty of the stone formations. tours provide a lot from weapons exhibition, in the tunnels of the mine. Down smoothly ice sculptures and the impressive scale of a romantic castle tavern, a medieval shop polished slides you go from one to another the cave compensate to be overcome 134 m The cave name “Hidden Church” (eerie cave) and the historic falconry with daily flight level to reach the heart of the mountain. during the visit! The implementation rate is was first mentioned in 1428. On the occasion demonstrations to the first Austrian Provin- matched to the particular visitor structure. At of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther in cial Falk Museum with regularly changing Always with you is your miner who introduces the cave entrance, visitors are equipped with 1983 Richard Erlmoser erected a Protestant special exhibitions. you very vividly the underground world. With miner’s lamps. Inside magnesium light pro- memorial in the “bat Dom” of the cave. The a raft you slide through the famous salt lake vides effective lighting of the ice sculptures. cave is unique in its kind and is also a special The tour lasts about 1 hour surrounded by mystical sounds.