Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Day 7 Austria : Innsbruck

We took a morning train to Innsbruck which took almost 2 hours. Main reason is to break up the journey as we will be going over to Switzerland after this.
We highly recommend to get the Innsbruck card if you intend to take the Nordkettenbahnen to the "Top of Innsbruck" in 20 min. Although we will only stayed here for one night but we got the 48H card because we reached Innsbruck around 10:45am but we will only be leaving next day at 15:45 pm so a 24H card will not be enough for us to explore.
The old town area is walking distance from the station , we stayed at Hotel Sailer which is just 3 min walk away from the main train station. From there we walk about 15 minutes to the funicular which will take about 8 minutes to the cable car station.
Was very lucky that weather was good that day since we only have 1.5 days here.At the top of the cable car , its actually a good place for hiking if the weather is good and of cos photo taking for urban people like us.
We spent about 2 hours at the top walking around and taking pictures, could have just bought some food and have panic there.Next we visited the Alpine Zoo since it was covered by the Innsbruck Card as well.
We had our lunch at the zoo as we did not expected to spend so much time on here.
The zoo is actually quite interesting, not very big but some of the alpine area animals we did not see before. From here either you can take the funicular back or you can just take a bus back to the city from the bus stop outside the zoo.
Ice cream on a hot day
Dinner
Hotel room
Bathroom
We did not venture out in the evening as was quite tired from the hike , kind of regret , should have walk around and take in the night view of the city.

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