I HAD AN opportunity to plan a trip in Austria when my sister had a company trip in mid-May last year. The idea: we’ll meet her right after her trip is done, and then roll out our hiking focused activities—an opportunity I didn’t grab quickly at first simply because I had no idea what Austria’s outdoor landscapes had to offer. That was until a simple Google search evolved into hours of obsessive research. The images blew my mind away. Could a place really look that dreamy?
Yes, yes it very much can.
On that 10-day trip, I worked out a self-drive hik-ing-focused itinerary to visit the country’s mesmeris-ing outdoor landscapes—ones that make you feel like you are part of a grand movie, The Sound of Music, if you’d like. In the words of a fellow Netherland hiker we bumped into along the way: “There are no bad pictures you can take in Austria”.
