The trip to Salzburg was only one day and a half. It was pretty short but fun. We had dropped by Wachau prior to this and took a train that only took us approximately 3 hours from Wachau to Salzburg.
The first place we visited was Mount Untersburg. My my, that was a good experience. Mount Untersburg is the massif of Berchtesgaden Alps. This Alps cut across Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. Mount Untersbaurg is only 16km away from Salzburg city center and can be reachable by bus which runs every 15 minutes during weekdays. Cable car service is provided and it will take you all the way up to Mount Untersburg.
Mount Untersburg from afar.
Up up we went in the cable car. Don't you feel Salzburg is so beautiful? So much greenery.
Look how high we were. Look at the houses down there, they looked like matchsticks boxes. Roads were like the size of ropes.
Those white patches were snow. We initially thought that were rocks until we got closer.
Look, how thick the snow had accumulated.
Lying on snow!!!
I was so excited as it was my first time seeing snow and holding it. Wee~~~
To my surprise, the temperature was bearable. I am afraid of cold but I was only wearing a sweater and jacket, even with the wind, it was so much better than London. As for the snow, I couldn't really figure it out. Why there was snow around but the temperature was not that cold? Anyone good in geography could help me on this? =)
This mountain just stretched further and further. All the way to.. erm.. not too sure where it is heading to.. =p
It was time to go down as it was going to rain. Look, how close we were to the clouds.
We went to the old town area after visiting Mount Unternsburg.
Visited Mozart's birthplace (the one with yellow color) at the old town area. The music prodigy was born in this building on 1756.
Didn't take much photos inside as a lot of areas were not allowed to snap photos. What I would like to share is the piano. This is how the piano looked like centuries back. Yes, the color of the keys were just the opposite from the piano that we had nowadays. I was like "oh" when I saw it. I downloaded this photo from wikipedia for a better understanding.We were not allowed to take photo on the one that remained in Mozart's house. Well, they looked kind of similar.
Photo from Wikipedia
So that was pretty much what we did back in Salzburg. There were so much places that we didn't manage to visit since we only have one and a half day. Kind of wasted.
Before I end this blog, I'll like to share a little extra information on the hostel that we lived in - YoHo International Youth Hostel. This hostel was pretty spacious and clean. I considered this as one of the nice ones that we stayed throughout the trip. The concept was pretty nice. It was like a university hostel with dorm rooms and common bathrooms. Everything was very clean and nicely organized. Each of us have a big locker in the dorm room to keep our valuable stuffs and they had a few compartments in the common bathrooms for privacy. They had a cafeteria at the ground floor, laundry area and cooking area at the basement. The cafeteria will turn to a lounge at night for those who would like to hang out. They have everything under one roof.
View from our room. The street was pretty quiet. It was not even 9.00pm.
Some humor from the hostel. Don't worry, this won't happen. They have the bathrooms separated for gens and ladies.
Took a photo at the entrance before we left on the next day.
Wait wait, did I share that we didn't cook or buy drinking water when we visited Salzburg? Well, we didn't need to do that as the water is safe to drink straight from the tap in Austria. Really, we literally drank tap water and we were all good, no upset stomach. =)
Alright, I will end here this round. Till then until the next travel blog from me. There are still other places we went during our Europe trip. Stay tune.
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