The Hills Are Alive, With The Sound of Music...
It's true. In Salzburg the hills are always singing. Mainly because every day there are at least 4 odd 'The Sound of Music' tours ranging through the hills blasting those epic Rogers and Hammerstein's songs at an unreasonably high volume all the while encourage a bus load of tourists to sing along completely out of tune.
Yes, I did take one of these tours. Yes I did sing along. And yes, I did do cheesy poses next to all the film locations. Did you expect anything else?!? I love The Sound of Music!
Yes, I did take one of these tours. Yes I did sing along. And yes, I did do cheesy poses next to all the film locations. Did you expect anything else?!? I love The Sound of Music!
But aside from the kitschy tours, Salzburg really is a place to make you want to sing. The Alps and the natural beauty of the place is almost unbelievably heart-wrenching. One amazing experience was visiting the world's largest ice caves just outside of Salzburg. They give you old fashioned oil lanterns and you spend a hour trawling through the cave with a guide seeing the most amazing natural ice formations... wow...
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posted by Xin @ 3:02 AM
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At 4:27 PM,
Anonymous said…
did you go to the salt mine - that was my favourite tour to do. Our family did it 3 times! The only place in the known world that parents let their kids lick walls, hehe... (let me get my stack hat)Seriously, that's the salt they mine in the walls and they have a wall of salt flavours. I don't know why but there are slides that the miners used and they're awesome fun but massive wedgie material if you wear your coverall-suit a bit small.
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