About 40 minutes away from Salzburg, Austria is a little town hidden in the Berchesgaden Alps called Werfen. It is famous for 2 reasons. Hohenwerfen castle,(Hohenwerfen Castle served as the main backdrop for the song "Do-Re-Mi" in The Sound of Music) and the Eisriesenwelt (World of the Ice Giants in German), the world's largest Ice Caves.
The Eisriesenwelt is a natural limestone ice cave located in Werfen, Austria, about 40 km south of Salzburg. The cave is inside the Hochkogel mountain in the Tennengebirge section of the Alps. It is the largest ice cave in the world! It is more than 42 km and visited by about 200,000 tourists every year. There you'll see ice palaces of crystal-clear beauty, taking you into a wintry world of ice, even on hot summer days. The mighty entrance to the caves, measuring 20 m wide and 18 m high, can be seen from afar. The system of caverns stretches over 42 km, the first kilometer featuring gigantic ice formations. This part is open to the public and can be viewed on a guided tour. The caves have an average temperature of 0° C throughout the summer months.
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| The entrance was all the way up there! |
