Krimml gerlos kitzbuhel

An excursion into Salzburgland

We used Tux as base to hike in the mountains, and to travel over to Gerlos, the Krimml and Kitzbuhel valleys.

Officially speaking Krimml and Kitzbuhel are in Salzburgland or Carinthia rather than Tyrol depending where you are. This section is bordered by all three zones Zillerthal, Carinthia and Salzburgland.

Apart from the pass and its beautiful views to join the Krimml valley, the town of Gerlos isn’t very interesting unless you ski and hike at altitude. As we pâssed through Gerlos, we got the distinct impression a lot of UK money has gone into its recent expansion, with British named pubs, hotels and restaurants dotted along the roadside.

Krimml is a well known and an interesting site with its huge waterfall. It takes a few hours to reach the top and return, and the climb is quite steep, at least for us in our 70’s.

Kitzbuhel is renowned and famous at it was the first ski resort to host the world ski cup in the sixtees. It has grown to become a rich, tidy, cosy skiing village that hosts bikers and hikers in the summer time too. Judging by the Astons, Bentleys, Porsches, Ferraris, and other expensive cars in hotel car parks, this town is upper class, and we did find meals quite expensive. However its very clean, very nice architecure and beautifil mountain surroundings with tons of cable cars to go walking in higher gound.