And so in the morning we left the Alps to Salzburg, Austria via a very scenic train ride.The first place we visit is the Mirabelle Palace, famous for where Sound of Music is shot.
Mirabelle Palace
After a short break in the hostel, we climb up one of the 2 hills overlooking Salzburg. The scenery is actually quite gloomy, unlike what we saw in Europe so far. Having explored the narrow medieval-feel streets, we call it a day.
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| Gloomy Salzburg Dusk |
The next morning we went to the zoo, unexpected plan, but quite enjoyable (mostly due to the zoo is much better than zoos in Malaysia although the zoo is quite small). Hellbrunn palace we visit to, experiencing the garden full of mechanism operated by water and the traps to make us wet.. They even had water imitating song birds! Amazing, fun, and wet.
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| All the models in this can dance around. Purely operated by water!! |
And lastly, we visited Salzburg Fortress before leaving to Vienna. In my opinion, the coolest fortress we visited. This fortress has never been captured, except when the garrison unconditionally surrendered to Napoleon.
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| Salzburg Fortress |
18 Sept 2010 - Vienna
Vienna in summary is quite rushed, but still very enjoyable. We bought ourselves a concert ticket at St. Stephen's Cathedral. After that we strolled the beautiful streets and Hofburg palace. Being the capital of classical musical, there are many street musicians playing classical music indeed. I regretted that I didn't explore the parliment building though.
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| Hofburg Palace |
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| Parliment Building |
In the night, after the concert (too bad not at the famous Vienna Concert House.) we meet up with a friend of ours who was traveling with his family. The next morning we head for a long, long journey to Prague.
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