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About 2 months ago, we booked an apartment for 4 days for mid-June in a farm that is situated 900 meters up on the mountain in Carinthia, Austria. I wanted to see the sheep and the Lamas in that farm. So the working farm is located in Glanz that is next to the Millstätter Lake.
We drove 400 kilometers from Vienna via the countryside since I wanted to see the landscapes along the way. It was a long way indeed passing the Turracher Höhe of about 1800 meters. This is a skiing area in winter and in Summer, a long hiking trail, all for the sports enthusiasts.
Millstätter Lake
The landscape of the whole area is really beautiful, all open fields taken care of by each of the farmers.
The owner of our apartment has a small cabin at the lake, and boats were there to be used as part of our booking. We wanted to do a Kanu ride and all we needed was to go downhill by foot to reach the cabin. But it rained the night before we arrived and therefore the way was very slippery. Oh, too risky for us senior citizens if we fell down and broke our legs, lol!
When we booked the apartment 2 months before, we were going in mid June which was already the start of Summer season, so weather wise, it should have been hot and that we should have nice weather. But then, the weather turned bad for us, coz the weather was projected to be rainy the whole of the week.
I was a bit dismayed since I wanted to ride the cable car going up to the highest peak near Turracher Höhe ( Skiing Area). It rained and rained and so we could not do anything but simply saw the surroundings of the farm.
Sheeps and the Lamas...
The farmers here have a smart idea to construct enclosed yards in the prairie next to each other. On some days, when the sheeps are done with the "mowing" at one enclosure, the sheep are moved the next day to another enclosed yard and so on and so fort. So the farmers do not have the task to do the mowing themselves.
I haven't seen a Lama in real life... We only saw a pair in this farm since others were sold already to other farmers. The Lamas in the farm were shy and didn't want to come near, although I would probably stay farther away before they spit at me...hahaha. I had been warned not to stay too close because of the spitting but that was not the case.
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Nature at its best!
The Long and winding road ... to the forest
The landscape is really awesome in Glanz. Each District that has uncultivated fields are all assigned to maintain their prairie clean for purposes of tourism.
It was raining cats and dogs in the two days we had been there. We had bad luck with the weather...and so we decided to go back home the following day. We want to come back again and the next time we hope that the weather will be fine...
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