Full day trip - 195 kilometres
The most famous alpine road ends in front of the pièce de résistance of Hohe Tauern National Park: the highest mountain and the largest glacier in Austria, the Grossglockner (3,798 m) and the Pasterze. On the drive up to the 1500 m Kaiser Franz Josefs Höhe, you will cross all vegetation zones, from grain fields to a world of eternal ice. You will then continue to the enchanting village of Heiligenblut, popular with mountaineers, through magnificent Iseltal valley in East Tyrol, then back along the Felbertauernstraße.
Surrounded by the wonderful Alpine world, between Steinernes Meer-Hochkönig, Grossglockner massif, Hohe Tauern National Park and the well-known ski areas of Saalbach-Hinterglemm and Zell am See - Kaprun lies a wonderful place : Maishofen. Here you'll find, peacefully yet centrally located, the family-run
Hotel Quehenberger.
