Thursday, August 19 2010
My alarm clock rang at 6.45. We got ready and went for breakfast. It was 3€ for all you can eat. I was still sick so in addition to coffee, buns, cereal and juice, I got some tea and put a Finrexin in it.
Our room had like a corridor with doors to the toilet, bathroom and the room with all the bunk beds. When we came back from breakfast, we just went in the room quickly with the beds and the lockers. The smell was disgusting!!! Ugh the room smelled so bad!!! We quickly took our stuff out of the lockers and dropped it all in the corridor. And that looked like this.
And the end result was this. We had to take the sheets off the beds too. We packed, returned our room key and left our luggage to the common corridor lockers. We had to ask the front desk for directions to the Untersberg.
The bus stop was in front of the Mirabell castle. We took bus 25, and it cost 2.10€ to go to the Untersbergbahn, where the cable car went to the top, the Geiereck peak. The mountain's elevation is 1972 meters (6 470 feet, Google converter), but the Geiereck peak is at 1300 meters (4 265 ft, Google converter).
It takes about 10 minutes to go up with the cable car. It costs 20€ to go up and down. It would've been 11€ or so one way, but the climb down would've taken 3 hours, and we simply didn't have the energy or time to do that. And I'm sure we would have gotten lost!!!
I'm going to let the pictures speak for themselves. This was my favorite thing about this trip and I would go back a hundred times. You can click on all the pictures and see them in full size.
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| The numbers here are not the same as listed in Wikipedia, oh well... |
Going up
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We wandered around the mountain for a long while. It was really cold and windy. In the beginning it was really foggy up there too. The weather was clearing up when we were returning to the cable car station. There was a restaurant there and we ate and had beers.
We went down with the cable car eventually, took a bus back to town, I fell asleep, and we had to find a grocery store before our train to Innsbruck. Of course, we couldn't find the closest one to the hostel, we went really far and had to hurry back to pick up our luggage and find our way to the train station.
Our train to Innsbruck left 16.02. This time it was very easy to find a compartment (for 6 people). I'm sure we went directly to the right end of the train where these places weren't reserved. We shared it with an English couple. We nearly missed our stop since we didn't really hear the announcements. There was something wrong with the speaker in the compartment.
In Innsbruck we found a tourist information and got a map from there and asked for directions to our camping site, Natterersee Camping. BEST CAMPING PLACE ON EARTH!!! Pictures will be in another post. The map would've been 1 euro, but the old man selling the maps was kind and gave it to us, and gave us bus schedules too. We could take the first bus 4143 to Natters, and then change to a 4168 to the Camping place. One way ticket was 2.30€. The bus goes from town to Natters more often, but from Natters to the camping site every two hours.
Brain's side-note: we also asked the old man at the tourist info if it would be possible for us to buy some sort of a travel card to save money on bus tickets. He didn't know, and sent us to the nearby kiosk. We went there and they didn't know either, and sent us to the post office. The young boy working at the post office said that he's not from Innsbruck and so doesn't know anything about tourist cards (I thought that was a very strange excuse). He sent us somewhere else, but at that point we just gave up and went to the bus stop.
We arrived at the camping place and were in awe of the place! It's so fancy looking! It cost 62€ for the two of us and a tent for two nights. The bathrooms and showers were brand new. They had sinks to wash clothes in, and dish washing sinks. The kids playground was amazing and the artificial lake too! So awesome!
Brain's side-note: after we checked in, one of the employees took us to our spot on a small car thingy (kinda like a golf cart). He was very weird, maybe Italian, kept talking funny, and I didn't really understand half of what he was saying. He seemed to be friends with everybody at the camping site and was very very talkative. Oh, and we ate our first real Austrian apple strudels at the restaurant there :)
The campsite quieted down around 11 pm and that's when we went to sleep as well. It wasn't cold this time really.
-Pinky
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