Take a Trip to Picture Perfect Austria

June 24, 2016

Austria is a German-speaking landlocked country in the Schengen Area, so all a tourist to Austria from India needs is a 90 day Schengen Visa and a valid passport as well as enough funds to cover the trip to picturesque Austria. Hungary, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Slovakia and the Czech Republic border Austria, so it makes a perfect stop over for a holiday if you are exploring Central Europe.

It is situated within the Alps, so is perfect for those travellers who enjoy hiking, skiing, and outdoor pursuits, just remember to pack hiking boots. Austria boasts stunning landscape including lakes, mountains, and valleys, and sometimes you will need to use a cable car to reach the summit of a mountain unless you are very good at mountain biking. The lakes are great for swimming in and in winter some freeze so that you can ice skate on them.

The capital city is historic Vienna, which has rambling alleys, great Beisln bistro bars where you can eat goulash and traditional cafes as well as old-fashioned coffee houses where artists and writers still gather to discuss great ideas. The Danube Valley and the Waldviertel are also great areas to explore if you want to see something other then Vienna.

Austria is also renowned for its fantastic baroque churches and palaces such as Stephansdom and Schloss Belvedere and the Museums Quartier in Vienna. Austria has had an interesting history, to say the least, and was once part of the Holy Roman Empire and the Hapsburg Empire, and you can still see the influences in the Lipizzaner stallions and the great art in the

Kunsthistorisches Museum. Music festivals like the Bregenzer Festspiele are very popular and there are examples of some very radical art in Vienna's interesting MuseumsQuartier. So for a country immersed in history and with breathtaking natural landscape take a trip to Austria from India.