Tyrol, Austria & Neuschwanstein

hike around lake blindsee

The Blindsee is a mountain lake and is surrounded by a wooded landscape. Due to its beautiful location with impressive views of the mountains, the Blindsee attracts many guests. The lake is especially popular with divers. With its enormous visibility up to 30m, the Blindsee is a true diver‘s paradise. Under his water surface one finds spectacular images: an avalanche swept many tree trunks in the lake which provide a stunning structure today.

Eagle Walk-One-Day-Trek: Ehrwald – Seebensee - EHRwald

The Seebensee is a wonderful mountain lake at 1.675m and is arguably one of the finest of its kind in Tyrol. Its imposing location and brilliant turquoise color make the Sebensee so unique and to a popular destination for hikers and bikers. Ascent to the Seebensee Hikes to Seebensee are available in different levels of difficulty and can be started from Ehrwald or Biberwier. You can choose between easy hiking trails or demanding High up to the lake it is either easy or challenging climbing routes.

castle neuschwanstein and the "highline 179"

Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn], English: “New Swanstone Castle“) is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as an homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds. The palace was intended as a personal refuge for the reclusive king, but it was opened to the paying public immediately after his death in 1886. Since then more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer. The palace has appeared prominently in several movies and was the inspiration for Disneyland‘s Sleeping Beauty Castle and later, similar structures.

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“HIGHLINE 179” Anyone who has been on the B179 near Reutte recently will certainly have noticed a suspension rope bridge spanning the valley up at a vertigo-inducing height, bringing together the Ehrenberg Ruins and Fort Claudia. The pedestrian suspension bridge is called “highline179″. This is the name given to the lofty crossing of the B179, which is known far beyond the borders of Tyrol. Since November 2014 courageous visitors can make the most of the opportunity and test their head for heights on highline179.

Height of the bridge: 114,60 metres Length of the bridge: 406 metres Path width: 1,2 metres Bridge supported: by 4 supporting cables, each 60 mm diameter Safety: 8 rock anchors, each driven 17 metres into the ground Dead weight: 70 tonnes Bridge load: max. 500 people http://www.highline179.com