Hallstatt, an idyllic town on the shores of Lake Hallstattersee in Austria
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Without further ado, today I want to visit probably the most photographed place in Austria, namely Hallstatt.
Hallstatt is a very small town located in Upper Austria, at the last census it counted about 800 people, and considering the huge difference between the number of inhabitants and the number of tourists present here you can imagine the discomfort and the pressure on the inhabitants of this town.
Last week I saw a report on TV from here showing the city's residents taking to the streets to shout their displeasure about the extremely high number of tourists, they were asking the government to limit the number of tourists in the city (from my experience here I can say that these city residents are right, the commotion on the city streets is really annoying sometimes).
We drove here and I can say that you have to have nerves of steel to find a parking spot, after 20 minutes of looking for a parking spot we were about to give up on the visit, but with a bit of luck we finally found a parking spot, you should know that even if you found a parking spot it is not cheap, depending on the area where you parked you will pay somewhere between 2,5-4euro/hour (we saw a few cars parked on the side of the road, but I do not recommend this).
As far as I saw there are two parking lots in the city (one of them we found a place) and two others at the exit of the city, all the data on the availability of parking spaces are posted on some signs, I asked and it seems that from the two parking lots outside the city you can get here by bus or on foot.
A word of advice, if you want to visit the city, get here as early as possible, otherwise it will be difficult, so don't spoil your appetite to explore the city.
In Hallstatt you have many options or activities that you can do and in today's post I stop on two of them, namely a walk through the city (in fact I saw the most photographed places here, I could not leave here without having these pictures) and the second activity was the boat ride on the lake.
I'll start extactly in reverse to introduce them to you, I'll start with the boat ride.
In the center of town there is a kind of pier where you can take the boat and here you can also find an information board with departure times and the price of a trip.
We arrived exactly at the last departure which was at 18:10, the cost of a trip is 15 euros and the approximate duration is one hour.
Let's get carried away by the waves and show you some pictures taken from the boat, this place really is unique.
The boat ride is over so let's go for a walk on the city streets.
The walk was something of a dream the colour of the lake water, the silence and the swans that seem to dance on the lake, the houses that seem to be made of gingerbread and the Austrian Alps seem to be spectators of the play.
I recommend if you visit it somehow to do it quietly, even live people here, from what I saw is enough just to walk the streets without talking and it is still noisy, and when we arrived at the most important points everyone was crowding to take their picture perfect forgetting to keep the silence.
If you like souvenirs this is the place to leave with a souvenir.
As a conclusion to today's post I can say that Hallstadt is a vibrant city, with amazing architecture, perfect location, with many possibilities to explore that is why I recommend it.
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P.S. The attached pictures you have just seen are taken by me with my mobile phone(and the combined picture is also made with the phone), and the text is also designed by me.
