Travelling in the Salzburg

City of Salzburg is great city to visit in Austria for 4-5 days - much better than Vienna.

City of Salzburg

Get to Salzburg

If you cannot get direct flight to Salzburg - get direct flight to Munich or Vienna, and then travel to Salzburg via train.

Benefits to travel with train

• Travelling in train is comfortable and easy from both cities
• You can take all luggage you can carry into train
• Travelling in cheap with train, cost only 25-40euros/person (one way).
• Bus from airport to train station cost under 10e/person (one way)
• You can stay couple nights in Vienna or Munich for fun.
• Train departures once in hour at day time.

Things to remember with travelling with train

• You can buy and print a ticket from ÖBB Route planner - compare prices too
• You need to carry ID card with you - for example, passport
• Choose railjet train if possible - those are the best and fast trains
• 2nd class is good
• Luggage rack can be found from 2nd class's wagon - middle of wagon

From Munich or Vienna?

• Munich is closer to Salzburg - 1h 30min journey with railjet train
• Vienna is nicer city to visit than Munich - in case you want to stay couple nights in Vienna too - but 2h 30min journey with railjet train 

Salzburg card is actually useful

Salzburg Card

Salzburg card is good buy, you can buy it from info posts of Salzburg - Salzburg card gives you free ride on local buses, one free ride on Hohensalzburg and it's museums, you can visit Geiereck mountain peak for free, and many museums.

72-hours Salzburg card cost 37euros in winter - and 42 euros in summer for adult.

Best sight seeing in Salzburg

• Geiereck mountain peak on Untersberg Naturepark - great nature park, there is a walking path and lovely landscape views around. Read more about Geiereck on my blog text about Geiereck

Cable car

View from the Geiereck

Cross of Geiereck

• Hohensalzburg Fortress - One of the largest fortress in the Europe. Read more from my blog text about Hohensalzburg and Hohensalzburg Museum

Hohensalzburg in the night

Street in the Hohensalzburg

• Old town of Salzburg - Streets, Architecture and even shop signs are nice, just don't try eat in the old town restaurants.

Street

Old shop sign

Statue in old town

• Views from Kapuzinerberg are nice - remember take a walk there too - it's free.

Hohensalzburg from Kapuzinerberg

City of Salzburg from Kapuzinerberg

• Visit Hallstatt - Hallstatt is not part of the Salzburg but definitely worthy for at least one day trip - It's one of the best and beautiful places I ever seen... Read more from my blog text about Hallstatt. 

Street

Iconic view of Hallstatt

Church

No point to do in Salzburg

Basilica Maria Plain

• No need to go north side of the train station - unless you go to Basilica Maria Plain
• Do NOT eat in the middle of old town restaurants - these are expensive with grumpy waiters
• Skip modern museum - free with Salzburg card - total waste of time
• Mozart museum - It's free with Salzburg card - Tempting to visit - probably everyone goes there anyways - nothing special to see unless you are true Mozart fan.

Links

• Salzburg card page in the salzburg.info
• Salzburg Hauptbahnhof in wikipedia
• Timetable for all Salzburg buses
• ÖBB Route planner

• My pictures of City of Salzburg on flicker - all my pictures are geotagged
• My blog text about Hohensalzburg and Hohensalzburg Museum
• My blog text about Hallstatt 
• My blog text about Geiereck