DAY 3 - SALZBURG 
UNTERSBERG
| The train to Salzburg left from the Ostbahnhof. |
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| I don't know why I have a compulsion to photograph foreign adult businesses. |
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| I bought my ticket at this machine on Saturday morning. |
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| On the way down I tried to get a good photo of the Alps to the south. |
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| It's always difficult to get a good shot through the window of a moving train. I think this one turned out pretty well. |
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| The view makes you want to start yodeling, doesn't it? |
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| It wasn't a packed train. The man in the next seat had just gotten off. He was wearing lederhosen. How Alpine! |
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| This is the train. |
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| The Hauptbahnhof is northeast of the city center. At the station I bought a Salzburg card which paid for transportation on the busses and admission to selected attractions. It was quite a bargain. |
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| This is the cable car that goes up to the top of Untersberg mountain. Untersberg is just south of town and is on the northern edge of the Alps. |
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| This is a closer shot in case you couldn't find it in the previous photo. |
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| Lots of lights and German warnings. At the lower left it says that the temperature at the top is -1° C. That's 30.2° F to you and me. What it doesn't indicate is that it is windy as all get out up there. I'd guess at least 30-40 mph. |
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| Some houses at the bottom of the mountain. |
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| A nearby church. |
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| We're on our way up. |
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| Most of the other people going up were speaking English, either British, American or Canadian. |
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| We're getting higher. |
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| There is a little building on the side of the mountain. When it is socked in with snow, I don't know how anyone would get there. Then again, perhaps no one needs to. |
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| Where we left from. |
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| The station at the top. |
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| There is a path that leads to a sort of a hand car on a cable. It leads... |
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| ...to those building down there. I think the big building had a restaurant in it. There are many picnic tables outside. |
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| There is also a sort of a pub or something at the top as well. |
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| Way up there are three crosses. It is the highest point near the station. There is a path, but it was too far to try to navigate in the ice and high winds. At that elevation, I was getting winded walking around too much. |
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| There is a webcam at the station that you can operate from your computer. |
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| I was able to get cellular coverage at the top of the mountain from T-Mobile Austria. |
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| Down there is Salzburg. |
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| From the station at the top looking out and down. |
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| More mountains on the way down. |
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