"The Alps" Austria Travelogue by Ruediger

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Beautiful Nature

This is my sister called Martina and me. We were happy that we found this little bench. The sun was hot and our way was long so it was the best opportunity to have a break.

This is one of my most beautiful photos, I think. I like it because it is a good view to this hight mountain in the background but you can also see the green trees in the foreground. I like the contrast, too.

The way goes on. This photo was taken a few minutes after our start on this sunny day. You can see that the way is still wide and it is easy to walk but this will change soon.

We wandered and wandered and after some hours we came highand higher. This photo was taken when we walked to the top of "Christlumspitze". But we have not arrived so far.

"Only a few meters. I can see the cross on the summit of the mountain", I said to my father who walked slowly and was happy when he saw it, too. After some hours we arrived at the "Christlumspitze". This mountain isn't very high but it was enought for the first day.

When we walked down into the valley we walked in the open countryside that looked so beautiful.

For the next day we planed to go to "Hochis" a mountain of 2299 metres. We wandered a while till we made our first break to eat and drink something. I don't know whether ther live people in this little house made of wood. We were only able to see some cows eating grass.

Our next stop was planned at "Dalfazalm" an alpine pasture in 1693 metres. We ate, drunk and had a look to the long way we left behind us. Then we started to wander and arrived in a beautiful countryside again. "Alpine roses", "Genzian" and many other great-looking flowers were standing next to us and in the background we were able to see the high mountains but not our aim.

After a long way we thought we have arrived but we were wrong. There was still a way and this one led to "Hochiss". About a half hour later we arrived at "Hochiss" and had this wonderful view down into the valley.

Than it was time to say goodbye to the other hikers and we left the mountain to go to "Rofanalm".

Page Updated Mar 20, 2003
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Rhondaj Feb 11, 2003 at 2:26 PM Report Abuse

I love, love, love, the alps!
Banjo Feb 11, 2003 at 8:17 AM Report Abuse

Great pictures of the alps...
pepples46 Aug 14, 2002 at 8:09 PM Report Abuse

great page and the pics all here
soomro Aug 14, 2002 at 10:30 AM Report Abuse

grat page
keeweechic Jul 21, 2002 at 8:34 PM Report Abuse

Parachuting is a little extreme - but great views:-))
margaretvn Jun 28, 2002 at 4:25 AM Report Abuse

looking forward to more
truus_s Jun 19, 2002 at 7:21 AM Report Abuse

beautifull..photo.greetings truus
yeah_baby Jun 15, 2002 at 10:54 AM Report Abuse

great start, great photo