Innsbruck

On Friday we drove from Schwangau up through the alps to Innsbruck.  The GPS in the car took us a very scenic route through some amazing mountain roads and villages.  We went straight to Swarovski Crystal World, which is ina the town of Wattens, 20km out of Innsbruck.  This was one of the attractions Jo was looking forward to.  The main gallery was filled with interesting things that we were weren't expecting, but when we reached the shop it was filled with sparkling, shiny crystals everywhere.  You could buy everything from crystal encrusted elephants, chandeliers, t-shirts and of course jewellery.  We had a quick lunch and then went and browsed.  In the end Jo was not as tempted as I had expected and only bought a few small things.


We then drove back to Innsbruck to find our hotel.  We had found a hotel that apparently had an apartment up the road, but when we got there and found the apartment, it smelled like someone had used it as a smoke house!  So we decided to just get a normal (non-smoking) hotel room and have Charlotte in the same room.  We were supposed to stay 2 nights, but decided we would go to our next place a day early.  That night we walked down to the old town and saw the Golden Roof (blink and you'll miss it!), and had some Thai for dinner.


The next morning we caught the furnicular train up to the Alpine Zoo, where we saw some interesting animals including, marmotts, wolves, vultures, moose, and a baby wild boar.  From there we continued up the mountain, catching a cable car up to the top.  It was snowing like crazy and so we stayed inside and had some lunch.  I went out and took some photos and saw some sort of flying fox and realised that there was still even further to travel up the mountain.  The snow flakes are amazing and actually look like they are depicted.  I've never seen this in Australia, but then I guess we don't really have much snow!  We then headed back down the mountain and drove to Berchtesgaden south of Salzburg.


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Innsbruck