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

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

First things to check:

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.

How to get into Geiereck mountain peak

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. 

Links

• Cable-Car Untersberg page in the salzburg.info
• Salzburg card page in the salzburg.info
• Salzburg Hauptbahnhof in wikipedia
• Timetable for all Salzburg buses - includes bus 25
• Timetable of Salzburg Bus 25 - direct link - pdf file

• My pictures from the Geiereck on flicker - all my pictures are geotagged