I'm going there next week. Do you have any suggestions as to where to go for some wonderful photo opportunities?
Harold
From personal experience, on a walking holiday - especially if you like landscapes.
Hallstatt
Wolfgansee
Salzburg
Basically it is Sound of Music country.
Vienna for architecture and street photography.
The Austrian Tyrol looks good also - athough we have never been there.
Vienna, the Black Forest, Innsbruck as well, Harold.
Do you have a travel itinerary with how long you plan to be in any one place, or is this completely open ended?
The Casino Restaurant in Salzburg. Beautiful view and excellent food. Also the Fountains of horses close to the casino.
zug55
Loc: Naivasha, Kenya, and Austin, Texas
There is lots to see and do and photograph in all categories: landscapes, cities, street photography, etc. A lot depends on what vacation you want this to be: hiking, sightseeing, experiencing city life? Austria has it all.
I lived in Vienna for a year three decades ago. That alone is a great city with lots to do and see. Salzburg is scenic, as is Innsbruck as well. Graz is an interesting city. There are lots of different landscapes: the high Alps in Tyrol and Salzburg, the Danube river valley, the Wörthersee area near Klagenfurt, and so on. If you are a train photographer, the Semmering pass is a classic.
Are you going to have a car? Travel by train? Individual or with a group? Tell us more and we will give you more tips.
RichJ207 wrote:
Do you have a travel itinerary with how long you plan to be in any one place, or is this completely open ended?
Rich, I am completely open-ended. I will be there for two weeks.
zug55 wrote:
There is lots to see and do and photograph in all categories: landscapes, cities, street photography, etc. A lot depends on what vacation you want this to be: hiking, sightseeing, experiencing city life? Austria has it all.
I lived in Vienna for a year three decades ago. That alone is a great city with lots to do and see. Salzburg is scenic, as is Innsbruck as well. Graz is an interesting city. There are lots of different landscapes: the high Alps in Tyrol and Salzburg, the Danube river valley, the Wörthersee area near Klagenfurt, and so on. If you are a train photographer, the Semmering pass is a classic.
Are you going to have a car? Travel by train? Individual or with a group? Tell us more and we will give you more tips.
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Thank you for your comment. Flying into Prague (cheaper than flying directly to Vienna) and renting a car. My partner Nicole and I will spend most of our time driving through Austria. Furstenfeld is on top of the list. I was born there and haven't been back since 1952.
UTMike wrote:
Vienna, the Black Forest, Innsbruck as well, Harold.
I agree, the Black Forest is great for photos, but not if one is going to Austria.
The Black Forest is in Germany.
I've been to Vienna twice, and the entire city is a photo-op.
The only thing I found annoying was that I got several "offers" from young men to take my picture - with my camera. I declined every time.
Feiertag wrote:
I'm going there next week. Do you have any suggestions as to where to go for some wonderful photo opportunities?
Harold
Innsbruck is incredible as well.
Too bad it is not winter as the Olympic ski run nearby is an incredible run and fun.
I believe that the lift runs year round and the views are worthy of going up to see.
Vienna74
Loc: Bountiful, Utah now Panama
I travel there regularly as a host of small groups of tourists. I have driven nearly every road in the country in the past 20 years and lived in Vienna for a year in the 70s. I consider the two most beautiful drives to be the Grossglockner High Alpine Road (well known to tourists) and Highway 111 from Kötschach west to where it hits Highway 100 (not at all well known). My favorite towns are Hallstatt (tourist mecca) and Friesach (north of Klagenfurt on Highway 317 and unspoiled by tourists), with St. Gilgen on Wolfgangsee the regular favorite of my groups. Salzburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but to me Vienna feels like home. One cannot adequately appreciate Vienna unless one has done a fair amount of reading prior to visiting. There is such depth there, of culture and history on every street in the 1st District. Innsbruck is worth visiting, but I also recommend driving south up the Oetztal (west of Innsbruck) then over Timmelsjoch Pass into Italy. The drive from the pass down to St. Leonhard is my third favorite drive, one of stunningly long vistas down into valleys below. One can make a loop back to the Brenner Pass and Innsbruck as a day trip.
If you're in Salzburg take a detour to the lovely little town Berchtesgaden and then go up to the Eagles Lair. Ramsau has a lovely little church beside the river
Take the salt mine tour in Berch. as well.
Don't forget Prague since you're flying into it anyway. It's a lovely city.
Stop at Ceske Budehovice and definitely Ceske Krumlov as you travel through Czech (#E55, #3). Do NOT take the highway(#1) out of Prague towards Brno/Vienna. It is extremely boring.
In Salzburg purchase the "Salzburg Card" at your hotel. It gives you incredible deals on all the major tourist sites. The castle and funicular, Monks Lift, the cablecar up the mountain, and many other places. It's an amazing deal.
Salzburg is one of the loveliest city I've been to and is very walkable. In fact do not drive in the city if you can help it. It's extremely difficult.
Look at the mountains! Get into mountains instead of super tele shots. Take aerial trams out of Innsbruck. From top terminal walk on ridge with all tourists or better take trail in different direction for a different view. From Innsbruck take streetcar/bus out to trailheads, then walk/hike -see interesting little churches, farms, cows come to lick salty sweat, up to a pass to mountain hut, e.g., Habicht Hutte, see people enjoying quietness away from cities, look around, venture up "cow mountains" (anything a cow can walk up) as far as you feel comfortable, stop, rest, look at the ground for edelweiss, go down into adjacent valley and take a bus back. Go to a sports shop for advice as to where to go and what you need to take with you.
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