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brine flows through a pipeline to the modern salt time for the highly anticipated Mega Slide, Europe’s
works at Ebensee, 25 miles away. Hallstatt o ers a longest wooden slide at 64 meters long. It’s a
fun and interesting tour of its historic salt mine – friendly race competition as your individual speed
which they claim to be the oldest one in the world. is tracked as you barrel down the slide. It was very
When my mom suggested we take the salt mine scary for me. I got on the side with my dad; my
tour, I was definitely game for this! mom was by herself. We ended our tour by taking
the miner train out of the mine into daylight. It was
To get to the mine, we took the fast and steep the best experience ever for me.
funicular ride up to the top of the mountain from
the funicular station; it’s about a 10-minute walk After the salt mine tour we went to the Skywalk,
along a trail to a historic miner’s house, which is new viewing platform which extends 12 meters
where you check in for your tour. I was tired from from the mountainside. The Skywalk “floats” 360
the walk and wanted to grab a drink from the gift meters (1,181 feet) over Hallstatt for a bird’s eye look
shop there. My dad got me a drink and a sandwich. at “World Heritage Views” of the village.
We were all settled for our tour of the mine. Our
tour guide told us that we have to get into the old Another popular activity in Hallstatt is to go on a
miner’s costume to tour the mine. The mines are boat ride. They have both the wooden rowing boats
cold inside so these clothes also protected us from and the electrical ones; so pick the one you prefer
the cold. The tour was about 90 minutes and the or you can also go on the boat tours to have
guide kept telling us interesting facts about salt beautiful views of the village.
mining throughout our tour. We entered the salt We spent the rest of our time exploring Hallstatt’s
mine and walked down a long tunnel that was dug historic village, admiring its clean streets, its
in 1719. We slid down the first of two wooden slides– beautiful houses and enjoying more lake views. We
original miner’s slides – to take us to the next lower drove back with a happy heart to our hotel in
level. Sliding down those slides was scary for me. in Salzburg. Thanks to my mom for suggesting this
the next part of the mine we watched a laser light place - it was out of the world.
show on an underground salt lake. It was finally
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