Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Upper Austria Highlights
Playing with pixels and conversing with intelligent robots at Ars Electronica Center in
Linz
(
Click here
).
Falling for the storybook lanes and fast-flowing rivers of
Steyr
(
Click here
).
Walking and sleeping high above the treetops at the Baumkronenweg in
Kopfing
(
Click here
).
Hiking through the rugged limestone wilderness of
Nationalpark Kalkalpen
(
Click here
), Austria's second-
biggest national park.
Drifting away in a Caribbean lagoon, daiquiri in hand, at
Therme Geinberg
(
Click here
)
.
Being amazed by the grace of the Augustiner Chorherrenstift in
St Florian
(
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)
.
Journeying to the darkest depths of Austria's past at
KZ Mauthausen
(
Click here
)
concentration camp.
Getting There & Around
AIR
Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, Ryanair and Air Berlin are the main airlines servicing Blue
Danube Airport Linz (
Click here
). There are flights to Vienna, as well as Frankfurt, Düs-
seldorf and Edinburgh. Ryanair has flights to London Stansted every Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
CAR & MOTORCYCLE
The A1 autobahn runs east-west to Vienna and Salzburg; the A8 heads north to Passau
and the rest of Germany; and the A9 runs south into Styria.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Upper Austria's bus and train services are covered by the
Oberösterreichischer Verkehrsverbund
(
www.ooevv.at
)
. Prices depend on the number of zones you travel (one zone costs €1.80). As
well as single tickets, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly passes are available. Express
trains between Vienna and Salzburg pass through Linz and much of southern Upper Aus-
tria, and there are also express trains heading south from Linz to St Michael in Styria,
from where connections to Klagenfurt and Graz are possible.