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Cycling Tours Europe, the Salzkamergut

Cycling tours Europe can include a visit to the Salzkammergut (Lakes) region of Austria near Salzburg. The video below shows you some of the highlights of the area.

First on your cycling tours Europe, you need to take along a copy of Salzkammergut Radatlas with excellent maps showing the various bike routes. Although it is in German, the index is also in English.

Cycling Tours Europe, the Salzkammergut

 

There are a variety of very scenic series of routes circling the lakes of the Salzkammergut in Austria/a> which are framed by high mountains. Much of the movie, The Sound of Music was filmed in this region and it is also a popular recreation area for Austrians all year round.

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It is best to start (of end) your cycling tours Europe in Salzburg and head along the Salzkammergut route into the gentle hills to the east. After a few hours you reach Mondsee, your first lake. The church here was the site of the wedding scene in the movie, The Sound of Music. The bike route continues on a quiet road with a climb and downhill before reach St. Gilgen on Lake Wolfgang.

Continue on the paved bike path along the southern shores of Wolfgangsee. You may choose to stay in St. Wolfgang (bike ferry ride across the lake), Strobl or Bad Ischl and the eastern end.

Do take a day ride to scenic Hallstatt, your third lake and a town now famous on many calandars. This is a pedestrian only town so lock your bike and go exploring.

 

Salzkammergut

The Salzkammergut bike route continue north along the Traun River to Gmunden, located on another lake and a great place to stay.

From here cycle along the bike route to the west into Steinbach on the Attersee before heading back to Salzburg along one of several options.

Others who are bicycle touring head north to join other cycling tours Europe and connect with the Danube Bike Route.

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