Krimml Falls

We were joining a Thomson tour bus at 12.15pm to head out to Krimmel Falls in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Salzburg State. Before that though we did a circuit from Kitzbuhel-Schwarsee-Reith which took us a couple of hours. We had rain in the night again but it was drying up and making way for another lovely day. We had coffee and then joined our bus tour.

The journey to the Falls took approximately an hour and we had just shy of 3 hours to spend as we pleased. The Falls are the highest in Europe and apparently the 5th highest in the World with the highest part of the waterfall being 1470m above sea level with a total drop of 380m/1247ft.

We could see the immense scale of the falls as we approached and we knew it would be busy with tourists and with reasonably limited time we decided we’d climb to the top and do more of the sight seeing on the way down.

First impressions of the world's fifth highest falls was WOW

We took on a nice sheen, part sweat and part spray

We climbed the 1247ft in 40 minutes and stopped for our sandwich at the Krimml Ache (river). From here the path carried on on various routes, one walk taking upwards of five hours, and there was a view of some snowy peaks.

Walking down we stopped off at various points to take in the views and feel the spray. The path was steep but thankfully we stayed on our feet reaching the bottom well in time to do some reading up on the national park and then to catch our bus at 4pm.

The journey back was eventful in as much as we had pan pipe music followed by a few Austrian tunes. The tour guide also said it was tradition to tip the driver as well - after that bloody music you can sing for it!

Kitzbuhel looking lovely in the twilight

We ended the evening with a stroll round the town.