Private Vienna to Salzburg Tour: Wachau Cultural Landscape, Melk, and Lake District

Highlights

Private tour from Vienna to Salzburg including the UNESCO-listed Wachau region at the Danube and the Lake District. The itinerary highlights include stops at the gorgeous village of Duernstein at the Wachau where you’ll learn about the legend of Robin Hood, Lake Attersee, which served as inspiration for artist Gustav Klimt’s landscape paintings, and lake Mondsee with the Sound of Music wedding church. The tour ends with a drop-off at your Salzburg hotel or alternative at the Salzburg train station (2 1/2 hours back to Vienna).

Get ready for pick up at 10:00 am and hop on board of your luxury tour vehicle. Lean back and experience the beautiful drive along the Danube River valley.

Duernstein is a small Austrian town, located in the gorgeous UNESCO listed Wachau Cultural Landscape region. Explore Duernstein and the Legend of Robin Hood. Richard the Lionheart Richard was captured shortly before Christmas 1192 near Vienna, it was here at the Castle of Duernstein, where Richard was kept captive. Lunch will be at your own expense but there will be ample of time to go to one of the many local restaurants.

Melk Abbey is one of the biggest and most beautiful European Baroque ensembles. Its splendid architecture is famous worldwide and part of UNESCO’s world cultural heritage. The Baroque building situated on a rock overlooking the Danube, in the Wachau region, ranks as one of Austria’s most visited art-historical sites.

The tour will continue to Lake Attersee. Enjoy the drive along the entire lake from Seewalchen to the lakeside village of Unterach at lake Attersee. Unterach sometimes referred to as “Little Venice” in the 19th century, is situated at the southern end of Lake Attersee. The world-known artist Gustav Klimt was spending every summer between 1900 and 1916 at Lake Attersee and most of his landscape pictures were painted here.

Next is the quaint and charming village of Mondsee. The village is home to the Sound of Music Wedding Church, where the wedding scene of the world-famous movie Sound of Music was filmed.

After eight hours exploring one of Austria’s best Sightseeing Routes, your private tour will conclude with drop-off at your Salzburg City hotel or optional at the train station: it is a ride of 2h20min back to Vienna, 2 trains every hour.