Tirol - more pictures

I like black & white pictures :)

So...what next ? Definitely I have to return here ...

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.

Useful websites:

http://www.gletscherpark.com/en/gletscherpark/glacier-park

http://www.pitztal.com/en

http://www.hochzeiger.com

 

Tirol 2014 - part 1

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Second part of vacation we spent in Pitztal - an alpine valley located in Tyrol, Austria. Our  hotel  Alpina was situated in nice village Wenns.

The Pitztal Valley

First mountains trip – Hochzeiger (2560m npm)

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It’s 3 hours trip – partly in the clouds, the weather was changing during the whole day.

At the evening we used sauna and ate delicious dinner (5 disches) …marvellous time :)

 

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The next trip – we were driving 28km by car to Mandarfen and farther by cable railway to Sunna Alm. We made 4 hours trip to Plodersee lake – the weather was very nice … from time to time we met snow on the path, around is above 27 degrees.