Hello everyone! I will be visiting Salzburg next July for three days, one of which I would like to use to take day trips around the area. I%26#39;ve done a bit of research, and the two towns that I really want to visit around Salzburg are Hallstatt and Berchtesgaden. Will I have time to visit both towns in one day? If not, which one should I focus my attention on? Thanks in advance!
|||
Hello,
You haven%26#39;t mentioned if you are hiring a car or doing these trips by public transport. It would be easier to advise you if we knew this information. But in the meantime I would say that it would be tricky to do both trips in one day, even with a car.
Hallstatt is best viewed on a clear, sunny day. The whole allure of the place is its wonderful lakeside situation with a backdrop of glorious mountains. On a rainy day the view is obscured and can seriously spoil your sightseeing. I%26#39;ve done the trip on both types of days so can speak from experience. Hallstatt is about an hour away from Salzburg by car. By train it would be a longer trip. By car you could visit other Salzkammergut locations either on the way there or on the way back. On a good day Hallstatt is utterly magical and I highly recommend a visit there.
Berchtesgaden is much closer to Salzburg and can be reached in about forty minutes by car. The town is tiny and can be viewed very quickly indeed. It could be visited in half a day but I would combine it with a trip down to Konigsee which is just south of Berchtesgaden. This is a wonderful lake, surrounded by mountains. If the weather is good you could take the Jenner cable car to the top of the mountain for spectacular views of the lake and Berchtesgaden.
If you could only do one of these trips, and the weather is good, I would recommend you go to Hallstatt.
Hope this helps,
Liz.
|||
By public transport (Hallstatt by train; Berchtesgaden by bus) these two places cannot visited in one day.
By car it%26#39;s pushing it a bit; won%26#39;t have a lot of time to do much visiting, especially in Berchtesgaden, the sights of which require some time.
You could go from Salzburg on the unnumbered road past the airport via Schwarzbach - Gross-Gmain to Bad Reichenhall. Take the B.R. by-pass and on to Berchtesgaden. It%26#39;s about 25km to Reichenhall and 20km from there to B%26#39;gdn. All good roads. Takes about 1 hour
B%26#39;gadn take the B-305 (it leads past the Railroad Station) to Hallein and pick up the Autobahn A-10 south to Golling. You will need an Autobahn user%26#39;s vignette. Look it up under %26quot;search%26quot; on this site.
At Golling, take Route 162/166 to Hallstatt, 56km from B%26#39;gdn. Probably will take you 1 1/2 hrs.
|||
Thank you both for your replies! I will be doing both trips by public transportation.
I will be doing the Sound of Music Tour while I%26#39;m there, and I%26#39;ve heard that the tour covers quite a bit of the Salzkammergut Lake District so it wouldn%26#39;t be necessary for me to tour it a second time.
I%26#39;m bummed that I can%26#39;t make it to both locations on the same day, though. I guess I could consider staying in Salzburg an extra day if I really need to visit both locations.
Thank you both again for your input! :)
|||
If you do the Sound of Music Tour (I suggest the Original Tour with Panoramatours) you will see many locations which are also visited with a regular Hallstatt tour, so you better really do Hallstatt on your own with public transport.
Regarding Berchtesgaden I would recommend the tour %26quot;Berchtesgaden and Bavarian Mountains%26quot; which will not only bring you to Berchtesgaden, but also to the wonderful Lake Koenigsee and much more. Have a look at
panoramatours.com/salzburg-Berchtesgaden--Ba…
and make up you mind!
Best regards from Salzburg
Wolfgang
|||
Thank you for your reply! Yes, I will definitely be taking the SoM Tour with Panorama Tours.
The Bavarian Mountains tour that you posted looks very promising and interesting. If I decide to go the Berchtesgaden route, I will probably go with this tour!
Thanks again!
|||
-:- Message from TripAdvisor staff -:-
This topic was inactive for 6 months and has been closed to new posts. We hope you'll join the conversation by posting to an open topic or starting a new one.
To review the TripAdvisor Forums Posting Guidelines, please follow this link: http://www.tripadvisor.com/pages/forums_posting_guidelines.html
We remove posts that do not follow our posting guidelines, and we reserve the right to remove any post for any reason.
Removed on: 12:19 pm, September 29, 2009
No comments:
Post a Comment