We woke up and had a quick breakfast before boarding the bus at 8:30am heading to Salzburg.

We stopped at an amazing place for morning tea on the road. The food was traditional Austrian and plentiful. It had a nice verandah out the back with great views of the Austrian countryside. It was an unexpected treat.
We arrived Salzburg at 12:00pm. Went on walk through the old town of Salzburg. Very beautiful, located on the Salzach River. Salz means salt, which is the local product historically produced in the region.
We visited and went through Mozart’s birth house. He lived there until he was 17 so he learnt most of what he knew about music in that place. He went to Vienna after that to expand his expertise in the bigger city.
We followed the guide around the town a spotted many film locations used in the Sound of Music.
There are only 100 Jews living in Salzburg today as the population has never recovered after being largely exterminated in WW2. Although there is a synagogue there, there is often not enough Jews to form a gathering.
We bought some traditional chocolates with Mozarts face on them, know as Mozartkugels.
We visited the Palace and the garden in which the Sound of Music was set. We even recreated a few of the scenes from the famous movie.
We crossed the river on the bridge coverd with locks.
The town was setting up infrastructure, including a huge outdoor opera venue, for the annual Mozart music festival
The outdoor opera venue in front of the cathedral is spectacular.
We went into the Salzburg Cathedral and marvelled at the architecture which was largely reconstructed after the place was bombed in WW2.
We visited the Abbey which was first constructed in 600AD and the restaruant which is the oldest in the world, being located in a building built in 803AD.
The market sold all kinds of traditional Austrian foods, many involving sausages of various kinds and pretzel-shaped bread.
Priscilla had Viena Schnitzel for lunch, so large she couldn’t finish it.
We left the beatiful city of Salzburg thinking that we had only just started getting to know it.
We travelled to Munich, arriving at 6:45pm. We travelled through German state of Bavaria, of which Munich is the capital. The houses in the Bavarian countryside are very uniform and unique to this area. We checked into the Ibis Hotel, quite modern and pleasant. We are making plans to visit Dachau Concentration Camp tomorrow morning instead of doing the Munich City Tour.