Travel Timo: Getting to Geiereck mountain from Salzburg

Salzburg is great city to visit in Austria, but don't miss the 1805m high Geiereck moutain peak in the Naturepark-Untersberg.

Landscape from the Geiereck mountain peak

Cloudy Untersberg

Make sure it's sunny day as possible from the weather forecast - this is outdoor things and even heavy clouds are not so cool as sunny day. Clouds can cause lack of visibility to down.
Buy a Salzburg card - Salzburg card gives you free bus ride one free ride on cable car up to mountain and down.
On high mountain, there might be very much colder than in ground level, make sure you have proper clothes.

Get to Salzburg Bus no. 25

Bus 25 departures in the Salzburg main train/bus station - Direction to Grödig Untersbergbahn.
NOTE: Most of the Bus 25 ends in the Grödig Untersbergbahn, but few Bus 25 ends in the Rif Ortszentrum thru Grödig Untersbergbahn.
Timetable of Bus 25 - Bus 25 moves in every 20-30 minutes, and check the "Fahrplan"

On Grödig Untersbergbahn get into cable car

Untersbergbahn - cable car to Geiereck

Queue might take even 30min, there is only 2 cable cars

Ride will take about 10min to up.

One cable car takes about 50 persons.

Landscape view from the cable car

If you are lucky, you might get perfect window view and see the very beautiful landscapes when raising up in the cable car.

Cable car raises and comes down once in 30min.

NOTE: if you don't have a Salzburg card - you must buy a ticket from the cashier before you can queue to cable car.

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