Travel Notes | Eastern Europe Series 6 - Go to the ancient salt city and encounter a passing love

Continuing: Eastern Europe Series 4 - Come and have fun with King Lake with me.

Five hundred times of looking back at the past life are exchanged for one passing by you in this life.

Can I look back a thousand times in exchange for stopping in front of you in the next life?

—Sister Ma

As the trip came to an end, we came to a place with beautiful scenery and rich material wealth - Hallstatt.

The beauty comes from: it is surrounded by mountains and rivers. The entire town is backed by steep slopes on one side and faces the gem-like emerald lake on the other. When spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, I sit by the lake and drink a pot of good Biluochun with my back against the wild flowers all over the mountains. After smelling the fragrance, I wonder if I can still tell whether I am in the real world or in a dream. world.

Material wealth comes from: It is home to the oldest salt pit in the world. Salt is still a "state-controlled material" in our country, a necessity in our lives. Digging into the mountains here, you can see it everywhere, absolutely rich~~~

There are two itineraries in Hallstatt: one is to visit the town; the other is to visit the salt mine.

The town is very small. If you don't stop carefully, you can walk from one end of the town to the other in an hour. But if you are willing to spend time and effort to discover and dig, you will find that the local residents live a very poetic life. Walking on the streets of the town, you can see their homemade handicrafts everywhere, either displayed in the windows or on the windowsill of the owner's house.

I am an outlier who doesn’t like shopping very much. Compared with shopping, I prefer to find a cafe by the lake, listen to music quietly, silently enjoy the mandarin ducks playing in the lake, and occasionally tease and tease the beautiful swans in the lake. Press the pause button on life and keep the time!

After wandering around the town, our group was recommended by the tour guide to visit the salt mine. I must give a thumbs up to the pick-up guy. It is definitely worth the money and is highly recommended. It is worth a visit. The whole journey takes about 3 hours, so please allow enough time if you want to visit.

There are two routes to visit the salt mine. One is a short tour route, which is to go to the top of the mountain to see the entire town, which takes about 45 minutes; the other is to visit the salt cave, which takes about 3 hours.

Go up the mountain~~~

Buy a ticket + wait for the driverless train. It takes about 10 minutes to reach the mountain.

Here you can download an APP, which contains all the explanations about the history of the salt mine. Don't ask me if I speak Chinese, we are big China, haha~~~

The first important attraction after going up the mountain: the panoramic view of the town.

Editor, I have a severe fear of heights. I originally watched from a distance, but in the end I was dragged over by them, and then as shown in the picture below..., hahaha! Below is a small town located at the foot of the mountain.

Every second attraction: visit the salt mine. The encounter that everyone was looking forward to finally unveiled its mysterious veil.

Sister Ma - a sister from Tianjin. She has a cheerful personality, enthusiasm and cheerfulness, and is successful in her career; she talks elegantly and is a woman full of knowledge. He often made us laugh during the trip, and he is someone I admire and learn from. But it is precisely such a rational sister who, when faced with love, still blushes, heartbeats, and is shy like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl in her prime.

The most beautiful encounter~~

While we were waiting to enter the salt mine, Sister Ma suddenly called me and said, please take a photo with her. Then she turned around and asked the handsome man if he could take a photo with her. Everything was just right, not too early or too late. When we met~~

Don't rush, the best will always appear when you least expect it.

—Tagore

The most tacit acquaintance and mutual understanding~~

The salt mine is at the lowest level of the mountain. We need to walk from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain. Foreigners are really creative. They don't build steps to let you go down in a "rigid" way. Instead, they give full play to their playful nature and do this one after another. The slide allows you to slide down alone. Such an interesting thing is a tragedy for people who are afraid of falling from high altitudes, woohoo~~. When we were at a loss, Mr. Handsome took the initiative to ask us what help we needed. At this moment, I vaguely heard the sound of the flowers of love blooming.

True love cannot be expressed in words, actions are the best explanation of loyalty.

——-Shakespeare

There are three explanations, two videos, and a short film clip in the salt mine, which explain the history of the entire salt mine very clearly.

The formation process - the discovery process - the excavation process - the transportation process, the whole process is connected by telling stories one by one. In addition to making a sound of exclamation, the whole process will definitely not make your mind wander away from the sky.

What the light shines on is salt that is closely related to our lives.

The micro-movie tells about the mining situation of miners in ancient times.

In fact, I think the most interesting thing is the transportation process. The only ones I am familiar with are sea salt and well salt, which do not involve difficult transportation processes. Although there is also sea salt here, after the changes in the earth's crust, the sea salt was hidden in the mountains. How was the salt in the mountains transported during the Stone Age?

The method here is to inject enough water into the salt, dilute it into a liquid, and then discharge it through pipelines to the factory at the bottom of the mountain. After being reprocessed in the factory, it becomes a daily necessity for us.

We Homo sapiens are truly omnipotent. There is nothing we can’t do, only things we can’t imagine.

The most regrettable goodbye~~

After coming out of the salt mine, Mr. Handsome’s parents saw us smiling at them and asked Sister Ma, do you still want to take a photo? But the shy and embarrassed Sister Ma finally refused. I don't know how long this rejection will make Sister Ma regret. One year, five years, or a lifetime. But as far as I know, at least during the time I was posting, she was still in love with her. She is in love and never forgets. In the end there is no group photo. She is in love and never forgets. She does not ask for his phone number. She is in love and never forgets. She cannot communicate with him in words. She tells him loudly: I like you. Can we contact him again in the future? ?

There are trees in the mountains, and the trees have branches. My heart is happy for you, but you don’t know it.

—-Liu Xiang

1. We drove from Königssee to Hallstatt, which took about 1.5 hours;

2. From Vienna to Hallstatt, you can take a train at the Central Railway Station, but you need to transfer once, and the transfer may not be at the same station. Be sure to read the instructions clearly when buying the ticket; it takes about 4-5 hours. The self-driving time is about 4 hours.

3. From Salzburg to Hallstatt, you can choose either train or bus. The bus requires three transfers.

Bus route: Bus 150 to Bad Ischl Railway Station, transfer to bus 542 in Bad Ischl and then transfer to bus 543 to reach the town. (Friendly reminder: You can transfer directly after getting off the bus. Bad Train Station is also a bus station)

Train route: Take the train directly from Sabau Railway Station to the town. about three hours

Regarding food, we only stayed here for a few hours because we had to rush back to listen to the symphony concert at the Musikverein. After visiting the salt mine, we packed up burgers and hurried to Vienna.