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Kitzbuehel: A Year-Round Outdoors Paradise in Tirol

Anyone with a passion for alpine ski competitions is familiar with the town of Kitzbuehel, in Tirol, and the Hahnenkamm – also called Streif – the most famous downhill race together with Wenger’s Lauberhorn, in Switzerland.

Alpine ski indeed remains one of the leading attractions of this famous village in the Austrian Alps, but Kitzbuehel has become over the last years a paradise for outdoors in Tirol, with plenty of activities to do across the seasons.

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Hiking Vorarlberg: Nature, Culture, and Good Food in the Bregenzerwald

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Combining the passion for mountains and walking with love for modern architecture may sound odd, even a contradiction, but that’s what you’ll experience hiking Vorarlberg, following the Architecture Path, in northwestern Austria.

This four days hike in the Bregenzerwald between mountains, green pastures, lovely villages, beautiful old houses and superb modern alpine architecture is unique. Neighboring Switzerland, Germany and the Lichtenstein Principality, the Bregenzerwald (meaning the Forest of Bregenz) is an area where old traditions blend with creativity and long-standing craftsmanship. The result is a region like no other, where there’s something for everyone.

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Nature’s Ice Palace: Discovering Wonderland Underneath the Hintertux Glacier

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When we started walking down the narrow corridor at the entrance of the Nature Ice Palace, I was not expecting to discover wonderland underneath the Hintertux Glacier, the mountain resort at the end of the Zillertal in Tirol (Austria) Ice rooms, crystal chambers, stalactites, ice crystals and a glacial lake, the further we went along …

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