Thursday, August 28, 2014

Tirol 2014 - part 2


One of the main attractions of the valley is the Pitztal underground funicular, which takes passengers from Mittelberg (1736 m) to Mittelbergferner mountain (3570 m). It’s Pitztaler Gletsther Express – the journey took us 6 minutes, after change on 2840m we continued by cable railway named Wildspitzbahn
 to the highest Cafe in Austria on 3.440 m.  The highest peak of Tirol Wildspitze (3.774 m) is ahead of you …You can see a marvelous panorama of the Alps from special observation deck.



A lot of snow :)





The second half of day we spent in Kaunertal National Park.  I’ll  remember the Kaunertal Gletscherstrasse (glacier road) -  the journey by car started at 1400m and ended at the border of the perennial ice region at 2.750 m. !!!  A lot of switchbacks, narrow road and continually slope up …





 
At the and of the road you have an opportunity to visit the glacier - Kaunertal. It was the second glacier this day – but this time we could see creavasse. 


The Glacier under "little feather bed" :)

If you want see the Glacier - hurry up !

Inside the Glacier


 
We used cable railway and reached 3100m – oops – it is Italy/Austria border here :) and marvelous panorama view around …you could see Switzerland through special telescope.





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