Plantaloines: Saltzburg, Austria

Our one stop in Austria was one of my favorite places on the trip. Saltzburg is a rather small city that finds its history and wealth in mining salt: Saltz-burg! It was green and there was some pretty sweet scenery. It is also very well known for the first full color movie that was filmed there: The Sound of Music.

There were four main highlights: The Salt mines, Hellbrunn Water Gardens, The Mirabelle Gardens and the Hohensalzburg Castle / Fortress.

The Salt mines:
Our Tour leaders: Brother Peterson, Anderson (tour director), Peder (bus driver), Brother Pyper and Brother Sturm.

The white suits are to protect our clothes...the train ride into the mountain.

We slid down these wooden slides, very fun.

So you get a better picture of what went on on this slide, a video:

The Hellbrunn Water Gardens:

The Archbishop in control of the Salt mines, a very profitable business, built this estate. He liked to play tricks on his guests: get them drunk, then give them a little surprise while eating at this outdoor table. Notice the seat at the head of the table is dry.

I don't know how to make this right side up, if anyone knows, let me know, but a good visual of what happened in the above picture...

The view from the house.

The garden had a HUGE Dalhia garden. I quite liked it.

They wish they were 16, going on 17...Yes ladies this is that place!

The Mirabelle Gardens: Girls, do you recognize this place too?

Angie and Jessica on the swings for small children, I was the pusher.

Dwarf statues:

And Unicorns:

The Hohensalzburg Castle / Fortress: a pretty sweet view of the surrounding area.

The Video version of the view from the Hahensalzburg Fortress:

One of the many Sound of Music sites that we visited on our Sound of Music Tour, the back of the house. Notice it is white in color...the front of the house was somehow yellow in the movie?!? (It was a different house)