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10  I NTroduCIN g A u ST r IA

DISCOVERING AUSTRIA

The following tours have been designed to regional itineraries that follow. Next, there
take in as many of the country’s highlights as are four 7-day tours, covering the forests
possible, while keeping long-distance travel and vineyards of Eastern Austria, the historic
manageable. The first tour outlined here is a treasures and sub-Alpine hills of Southern
2-day tour of Austria’s fascinating capital, Austria, the lakes-and-mountains wonderland
Vienna, a city packed with monuments, family of Salzburg and the Salzkammergut and the
attractions and cultural diversions. This itinerary stunning highland scenery of the Austrian
can be followed individually or combined to Alps. Choose and combine tours or dip in
form a week-long tour, with any of the and out and be inspired.

0 kilometres 50
Gmünd
0 miles 50 Schloss
Rosenburg
Zwettl Waldviertel
Dürnstein Krems
Tulln
Wachau
D anube Vienna Vienna Danube
Traun Melk St
Woods
Wolfgangsee, the Salzkammergut Pölten Hinterbrühl Gumpoldskirchen
With an impressive backdrop of sandcastle-shaped mountains, this Salzach
15-km (9-mile) long lake, with its emerald green waters, is one of the Gmunden Eisenstadt Neusiedler
See
most charming lakes in the Salzkammergut region. Traunsee Rust
Salzburg Wolfgangsee Traunkirchen Seewinkel
National Park
Schloss
A Week in the Hellbrunn Hallein Bad Ischl Ems AUSTRIA
Austrian Alps Kufstein Bad Aussee
Hallstatt Dachstein Caves
Kitzbühel Werfen
• Spend a day getting to grips Bruck an der Mur

Leoben
with Innsbruck, the historic Seefeld
capital of the Austrian Tyrol. Pinzgau Zell am See
Lech Inn Innsbruck Mur Bad Blumau
• Feast on the scenic beauty of Oberwölz
Arlberg St Anton Ötztal Zillertal Krimmler Murau
Seefeld, an idyllic village set Pass Wasserfälle Graz
amid cow-grazed pastures. Sölden Friesach Riegersburg
Gurk
• Venture into the most Obergurgl Millstätter

dramatic of Austria’s Alpine Drau Spittal an See Hochoster-
witz
valleys, the Ötztal. der Drau Wörthersee
• Explore the Arlberg pass Villach Velden Klagenfurt
region, home to the chic
mountain resorts of St Anton
and Lech.
• Spend a day hiking in
the hills around Kitzbühel,
surrounded by some of Tyrol’s
most spectacular peaks.
• Stroll through the meadows

and barns of Pinzgau
before visiting the foaming Melk Abbey, Eastern Austria
Krimmler Wasserfälle. Perched spectacularly on a
rocky outcrop, overlooking
• Take a ride on a steam train the Danube, the magnificent
and marvel at the all-year Baroque Melk Abbey is one of
glaciers in Zillertal. the country’s most rewarding
to visit.
Watercolour of the area around the Neo-Gothic town hall, Neues Rathaus
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Date 26th November 2012
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