Einfach-Raus-Ticket is a Bargain for Small Group Travel on Local Trains

Austrian Railways’ Enifach-Raus-Ticket is a cheap unlimited-travel day ticket rail pass for groups of up to five passengers traveling together on local and regional trains.

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Austrian Railways (ÖBB) offers wide variety of trains but the biggest savings are available on local and regional trains. The Einfach Raus Ticket allows groups of up to five unlimited travel for a day on local trains throughout Austria. This offers a huge saving over regular train ticket fares making train travel positively cheap. The Einfach Raus Ticket is not valid on fast long-distance trains but most countryside sightseeing require traveling on local trains anyway.

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Public Transportation from Salzburg and Vienna to the UNESCO-Listed Town

Transportation to UNESCO World Heritage listed Hallstatt on the Hallstätter See Lake in Austria is easy by train or bus from Vienna or a day trip from Mozart-town Salzburg.

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Hallstatt is a picture-perfect small village clinging to the rocks and a narrow strip of land between the crystal-clear water of the Hallstätter See Lake and the impressive Dachstein Mountains in the Salzburger Land region of Austria. Hallstatt is inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list for the prehistoric Hallstatt civilization that originated in the region and for the salt mines of the Salzkammergut. However, the natural beauty of the area is as much an attraction for the visitors that flock here on vacation as well as day trips from Salzburg.

Driving to Hallstatt is the easiest way to reach this small town. It is a very pleasurable drive along safe and well-maintained country roads and at times it feels like driving inside a postcard. Public transportation is somewhat slow but not particularly cumbersome with traveling times from Salzburg around two hours while Vienna (Wien) is around four hours away. Many day-trip tours and excursions to Salzburg are offered from Salzburg and well worth considering for the ease of transportation.

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Airfare Deals on Low-Cost Airlines Flying to W A Mozart Airport (SZG)

Cheap tickets and low prices are available on low-cost airlines flying to Salzburg Mozart Airport (SZG), Austria. The lowest fares are from London, the UK, and Germany.

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Low fares and cheap tickets are available to travelers flying to Salzburg’s W A Mozart Airport (SZG) from various European destinations. The number of flights and destinations served are particularly big from London, the UK and Germany but many other European and especially Scandinavian airports can also be reached on direct flights.

• Salzburg is of course most famous as the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart but most passengers flying to Salzburg Airport are primarily en route to nearby ski resorts. The number of flights is thus larger in winter and particularly busy on Saturdays – the best deals are thus available to passengers flying mid week.

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Enjoy Kaffee & Sachertorte in Hotel Sacher Wien, Café Central, and Demel

Tradition-rich cafés such as Hotel Sacher Wien, Café Central, and Demel are top attractions in Vienna. These coffee shops serve strong, fresh coffee with top Austrian cakes, including the ever popular chocolate Sachertorte.

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Vienna is proud of its long coffee house tradition. Enjoying strong coffee in one of Vienna’s elegant cafés is a time-honored tradition. Amongst the best-known Wiener cafés are Café Sacher, Demel, and Café Central, which are top tourist sightseeing destinations in their own right.

• No Viennese cake is more famous than Sachertorte – a rich chocolate cake with a divine chocolate coating and a thin apricot jelly strip.

Sachertorte was first baked in 1832 by Hotel Sacher for the Imperial family. However, after a family member sold the original recipe to Sacher’s competitor Demel, Demel has also been using the original recipe to bake Sachertorte. A long court case was settled in Hotel Sacher’s favor allowing only Sacher to add “Das Original” (The Original) to each Sachertorte served. However, unlike Hotel Sacher, Demel correctly keeps the apricot strip at its original position below the chocolate cover and not in the middle of the cake, as is more commonly done nowadays.

• Closer inspection of the ingredients labels reveal that Demel uses more eggs than does Sacher to produce Sachertorte.

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Austrian Cultural, Architectural, and Natural Treasures

Hallstatt in Austria

Austria has eight sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list to confirm the Austrian contribution to world culture. These sites include architecture, natural beauty, and classical music. Currently listed sites include Salzburg, Schönbrunn, Hallstatt-Dachstein, Semmering, Graz, Wachau, Neusiedler See, and Vienna.

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