Kalkalpen National Park is Austria’s largest contiguous forest wilderness, 20,850 hectares of limestone mountains, deep gorges, and ancient beech forests in upper Austria that form part of the UNESCO World heritage \”Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.\” One of Austria’s least-visited national parks, Kalkalpen offers a rare opportunity […]
Karwendel mountains in Austria
The Karwendel Mountains are the largest range of the Northern Limestone Alps, a dramatic Alpine wilderness of razor-sharp peaks, deep corries, and ancient pine forests straddling the Austrian-German border. With over 125 peaks above 2,000 metres and hundreds of kilometres of hiking trails, the Karwendel offers some of the most rugged and unspoilt Alpine scenery […]
Krimmler waterfalls – the highest waterfalls in Austria
At 380 metres of total drop, the Krimmler Waterfalls in the Hohe Tauern National Park are the highest waterfalls in Austria and the fifth highest in Europe, a three-stage cascade formed by the Krimmler Ache, a glacial stream that thunders over the edge of the cliff at 1,470 metres above sea level and plunges into […]
Lamprecht’s Cave – one of the largest systems of caves in Europe | Austria
Lamprecht’s Cave in the Salzburg region of Austria is the most accessible deep cave in the world, a 50-kilometre network of passages that you can walk into without any special equipment, following a path that leads through vast chambers, narrow corridors, and carved staircase passages that descend over 1,632 metres into the limestone mountain, making […]
Liechtenstein Gorge – one of the most beautiful gorges in Alpine region | Austria
A walkway suspended over a roaring alpine river, carved into the vertical walls of a gorge over 15 metres high, was originally built in 1875 to make a geological wonder accessible to tourists who arrived by the new railway to the spa town of Bad Hofgastein, and today the Liechtenstein Gorge is still one of […]
Seegrotte in Austria – the largest underground lake in Europe
The Seegrotte (Lake Grotto) in Hinterbrühl, Austria, is home to the largest underground lake in Europe, a surreal subterranean body of crystal-clear water, 60 metres below ground, formed when a gypsum mine flooded in 1912 and creating a spectacular underground world where visitors can glide across the lake’s surface by electric boat through vast, still […]
Austria – Country of a Thousand Faces
Austria is the country of a thousand faces, an Alpine nation at the crossroads of Europe whose imperial capital, Vienna, was for centuries the political and cultural heart of a continent, whose mountains are among the most beautiful and accessible in the Alps, and whose cultural legacy (Mozart, Strauss, Klimt, Freud, and the Habsburg dynasty […]
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