It was 2 weeks wait for the most awaited trip, a trip to Salzburg, Austria. Our cousins came down to Augsburg for a weekend and we zoomed in our Volkswagen Cabriolet to the neighboring Austria. From Augsburg, its hardly 300 kms and the journey was as splendid as Switzerland.
We, a group of four, had booked our stay in Innsbruck and our saturday was spent in Salzburg. We saw the famous "Sound Of Music" locales by being a part of the bus tour. The famous summer palace, the red dome church, the bridge, the Gazebo, the Pegasus fountain and the blue lakes, every single shot of the movie was covered. The beautiful songs were played in sync with the shooting locales and we hummed the tunes.
Salzburg is famous for chocolate cake and we wanted to taste it what so ever. The cake order got delayed and we were late to the bus by 10 minutes. The annoyed Aussie traveller passed a sarcastic comment but our answer was simple "blame the cake as its caused the delay". How could one miss something so famous when one has travelled 1000s of miles for a 3 day visit?
The next bit of the day was spent in the Mozart museum. We bought a music box in remembrance of the world famous musician. There were chocolates too in the name of the music Zeus and we did taste them. The voice recorders gave a brief about the artist and the pictures reminded our text books.
From there, we drove all the way to Innsbruck as our accomodation was booked in Hotel Regina. Innsbruck is another jewel of Austria as there is the most famous Swarovski factory. It isn't easy to explain the beauty of the museum. An experience that has to felt atleast once in life. At Swarovski, there is a famous fountain called "Fountain Of Youth". I remember a Karishma Kapoor and Salman Khan romance in front of the fountain.
We purchased a few accessories from the store and that will be my sovereign of Innsbruck. This was our 2012 journey to Austria, do let us know if you have anything more to share.
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