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Before starting the video: I am very curious about your reaction on my home country.
While watching the video:
– I walked around the lake at 1:50 last year, wonderful place.
– On 1:57 you can see "my" lake, Wolfgangsee 😀
– If I would tell you the secret of Gosau, my passed away father would kill me (it has to do with fungi)
– The name of "Großglockner" can be translated to "great guy who rings the bells" 😉
– On the Pasterze on Großglockner: when I was there in 2003, there was a glazier where now this lake is, global warming is fucked up!
– The roads ARE well maintained, correct
– I worked as a conductor on the Schafberg-Railroad when I was 18 😉 There is a railing where the people walk, so don't worry 😀
Austria, the south of Bavaria, the italian Trentin, what a land of dream !
I actually didn’t have the best of times in Vienna. I do believe the weather and the amount of days I travelled had a lot to do with it (I would’ve loved to see the countryside waaay more). I even got sick while I was there. But my only good and top memory was going to my first classical music concert there which was a Mozart concert in the Schönbrunn Palace❤. Sadly I wasn’t dressed appropriately, I was backpacking so I didn’t have proper attire and it was literally last minute decision so didn’t have time to go to a store😢. But I wasn’t missing it. Vienna and classical music was a dream come true ❤ I will definitely be back and give Austria the time it deserves to be visited❤❤
When I first went to Austria I couldn't believe how like a fairytale the place is, especially the castles and the lakes surrounded by amazingly high mountains. Vienna is worth a long visit too. It's old churches and castle reminding people that Austria had its own empire until the 1st world war.
The Sound of Music was filmed in the mountains of Austria.
The salt of Hallstatt was probably mined since the Neolithic, but at least since 1500 BC (during the Bronze age) systematically. The town gave its name to the Hallstatt culture (800 – 400 BC) in Middle Europe, which marked the start of the expansion of the Celts. The name component "Hall" in southern German place names (here including Austria) often refers to salt mines; in some old Germanic languages "hal" could mean saltworks (but in northern Germanic 'hall' could also mean a hillside). Hallstatt is part of the state of Salzburg (which lit. means Salt Castle).
Austria is a very beautiful place to be. I live in Tirol on the border to Salzburg. Blessed to live here 😊
Leiwand oida!
Vienna here 😉
My grandad was born in Vienna, he was an Austrain Pole My dads surname was Austrian but he chnaged it when he married due to xenophobia in the UK in the 1960s. Only visited once and then to Vienna such a beautiful city.
No those places, are not too expensive, well you need to be wealthy, but nothing crazy
The gleisher he showed has a lot less ice from when I was there 50 years ago
It is a shame to see what globelwarming does to our planet
The darn thing about scenic routes in the Austrian Alps is that you have to pay and they aren't cheap.
Although the video is beautiful it is a bit odd that he has not moved out of a ratio like 100 km near Salzburg. What about Vienna, the history, the Art, the Science, Skiing, Tirol, the magnificent food, etc etc The area he showed is very nice, but there is lots of rain. Salzburg, the birthplace of Mozart, was not even shown. In Kärnten, to the South, the climate is much milder. Then you have all the famous skiing resorts like Lech and Kitzbühl…….
You should take a look at top places to visit in Brazil, our scenery is incredible xD
Greetings from the east of Austria. Without Mountains but with castles😂
The "lake" at the bottom once was the Pasterze glacier. The rest the glacier will be gone soon.
as a german, austria is by far my most visited country 😀
I love Austria. We drove through there last week going to and from Italy. It is so, so very beautiful!!!!❤ What is sad, is that we make this trip every spring for the past 26 years, and there seems to be less and less snow on the mountains every year. It’s very troubling.😔
I always liked Austria as a french ❤ such a great culture 👌
Avoid Hallstatt. It is full of Chinese tour groups.
you also should check out his videos about other European countries, like Switzerland, the Netherlands and so on
Having visited 8/10 of the places featured in the video, I can confirm Austria is a beautiful country. As a kid I went there with my parents 5 years in a row during summer holidays and it never got boring.
Im from Sweden. You are one charming man. Yes,It's beautiful. My next summervacation. 🙂❤
So many places missing there, and some of the ones he chose are strange choices. the old Austrian Citties are great too. Vienna with all the palaces, Graz and Salzburg with there old cities, and so many other places. The Wachau region in the Danube river, the Neusiedler Lake, the Attersee, multiple River Canions (Klamm), so much to see here in Austria…
Beautiful nature in Austria and Salzburg is definitely worth a visit. I've been there many times during the holidays and it never gets boring. The alpine meadows exude a serene tranquility, with the sound of cowbells in the background. My son and his friends have done hiking and climbing holidays several times in Austria. They follow a chosen route and they go from the one alpine hut to another alpine hut. Beautiful nature and views along the way.
I wonder how my German and Austrian friends are feeling after listening to his pronunciations and seeing his spellings. I'm an American living in Austria and they made me cringe. At least he had lots of lovely things to say about Austria. I thought it might be interesting for Ryan to know about Hallstatt and how Chinese tourists were so intrigued by it, they created their own replica back home (I think for a soap opera they have there), but they still have brought bus-loads of tourists in to see the original town. Unfortunately, the tourists were confused and thought they were on a TV set and just walked into people's homes. They had to find restrictions to prevent that. It is every bit as enchanting as it seems, like right out of a fairytale.
Ryan, the infrastructure is so well maintained here, including the original design of having so many utilities buried. When I lived in the Midwest in the states, any storm knocked out our electricity and internet, for sometimes days. We've never lost any of that here in Vienna—an absolutely awesome city.
Ahh Austria.
The birth place of Adolf Hitler.
A visit to the Schafberg was one of the best days of my life. The video footage doesn't do it justice. Schafberg is like a mountain in between 4 lakes. When you look down from the top it's kinda if you are in the middle of a cloverleaf of lakes. When you look south from the Schafberg you have an amazing view of the Alpes if you look North you have a amazing view to the horizon of green fields. The best experience you get is that you go there on a clear sunny day. In the morning rent a little electric boat to go over one of the lakes for 1 or 2 hours and after that go up Schafberg from Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut.
❤ from Gmunden am Traunsee 🇦🇹
Spent a week in Kitzbuhel a few years ago…absolutely stunning! 👍🇬🇧
"This glacier is so cool." – What a pun!
5:05 Two or three years back an influencer died at the water falls out of being stupid. She climbed over a fence and tried to balance on a wet log in her flipflops for a good pictur. The waterfalls can be viewed quite safe even from relatively close at several places and still look absolutely great, but some people think a picture is worth more than their life.
(Btw.: it's mind blowing how many foreign tourists aren't able to imagine bringing adequate footwear for hiking up the mountain.
Sure it's a pretty path where you won't rsik your ankles, but i have seen people using normal shoes and loose grip as there are wet spots close to a huge waterfall. "who could have known"?🤦♂
Edit: i forgot: the 35€ toll for the high mountain road may seem a lot, but it's basically a "day ticket" which means you can go up and down as often as you like between around 05:00 am and 9:00 pm on the day you bought the ticket.
And each year in spring (like may or so they have to free the road from several meters of snow. You guys call the stuff they use snowblower. And the guy who constructed the road actually constructed the 5 snowblowers they use to this day. (during summer you see them parked next to the road and can take a look at these formidable machines.)
I bet it's relatively cheap per square meter. Maybe a problem is, that the properties are a couple of thousands square meters big 😜
Not only Austria or Germany are nice places to visit/view in Europe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XYLctU0vWs&t=69s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS7Atr4VwE8
Try react "Wonderful Indonesia" videos please
Oh, so you do have 2 channels? I was confused (doesn't take much tbf) because I was seeing videos in the sidebar thing that looked like you but apparently wasn't you, but actually it turns out it probably was you? I was going to leave a comment on the one I thought was you, saying I think someone is stealing your content!
I went to Austria, briefly, a long time ago, but my impression as we drove through was similar to the views shown here. I remember being on a road in the mountains, quite early in the day. High up but still under the tree line, and the road (tight, with hairpin bends looping back on themselves in places, but smooth and well maintained thankfully) just dropped away to one side, very syeep, but the view – evergreen forests clinging to the mountainsides, with pockets of cloud and mist looking as though they were caught on the tops of the high trees that they slowly furled around.
Clear blue skies above the mist and cloud we were occasionally level with, and then we'd turn a corner and the already amazing view would take your breath away, it really did look like a fairytale. Looking out over the pockets of mist in the trees down to a valley way below, some with flat, mirror-like lakes, and occasionally with picturesque villages nestled in the nooks between the mountains and the water, others were like quite narrow, hidden valleys with villages that strung themselves out like beads along the sides of a river, and off into the distance, seemed to be always even higher, more jagged mountain peaks, partly hidden by a haze the sun had yet to burn away. Really beautiful.
So if you're also looking into other European countries, have you watched/reacted to any Rammstein? An amazing, epic German band, you should check out their official music video of their song "Deutschland" – 2000 years of German history in one incredible music video! Every scene, likely every frame, has purpose. It'll blow your mind! The channel "Educated Marine" has the video in their channel, they have added their translation of the lyrics into English. You'll need it!
Shocking!!!!!!! I remember beeing at the very same spot at Pasteurize Glacier, when i was a boy, the glacier even passed the very spot further down a was all the way i estimate 100 feet thicker ice layer. i knew the glaciers melt, but i did not see the amount of on one same spot in decades. WOW!!!!!
"Where do you get groceries at?" – Austrian villages and towns usually still have little village shops, bakeries and butcher's shops where you can get everything you need for daily life.
Great, really great images, but a very, very lousy pronunciation.
I just found your channel and i just have to say that you are so much fun to listen to. Thank you. I had to subscribe
Videos like this make me appreciate our landscape even more. Perfect location for motorcycle riding!
No, thank YOU for watching. Because that is the appeal of your videos – seeing you take the time to watch what is dear and normal to us. Greetings from Austria!