Next morning, bright and early, we set off for Austria!(480km) Driving through the Austrian Alps is quite an experience, it was beautiful! We watched The Sound of Music, which everyone was singing along to! We stopped for a few hours in Salzburg, the city from the movie, and also the birthplace of one Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. We got to have free time to explore the city, so a few other and i decided to visit the castle on top of a gigantic hill! it was quite a hike up there (and then we found out we had to pay to get in) so we just admired the AMAZING view. We then headed back down, and got on the bus to travel to a small town called Zell Am See. The first night was a lazy one, with not much happening, but with 78 exchange students, we still had a lot of fun.
the next morning we were up bright an early to go on a hike up the alps. it tooks us about 3 hours up. it was very hard work, and the last hill to the top was VERRY steep. i tried to run up, and got 3/4 of the way before someone jumped out in front of me. i was pretty proud of myself though. the view at the top was amazing! we were 2000m up (i think). we ate lunch and took some photos, and then headed back down. some of us then went to swim in the lake. i think this could have been the highlight of my trip. swimming in a lake surrounded by the austrian alps, it was beautiful. i want to go back there some day. we then headed back to the hotel, and it was an early night.
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