Fortress Hohensalzburg Castle Tour 4k - Salzburg Austria

The Hiking Hermit presents Fortress Hohensalzburg Salzburg, Austria We are on our up to the Fortress Hohensalzburg which is the largest fully preserved castle in Central Europe Here on the right is where you buy your ticket for the Fortress Hohensalzburg funicular This takes you right into the fortress and I will show you where later in the video There are a number of ticket options and I have left a link in the description to those options On this occasion we take the uphill 10 minute walk to gain entry into the fortress You can either walk up the hill or up go up the steps which we do The steps route takes you up the side of the Fortress Hohensalzburg funicular The added advantage of walking up, other than it being chepaer, is that you get see views from a couple of viewpoints the people on the funicular don't get to see. The Fortress Hohensalzburg is an eleventh century castle that sits atop the Festungsberg mountain at an altitude of 506 metres So I'm about to go into the Salzburg Fortress and I've done the skip the line thing here so it opens a link in your browser when you scan the barcode at the bottom and then you can pay by credit card so I bascially got the ticket to have the full tour If you don't take the funicular like me you've to do this bit of an hill to get to the entrance Ah and there's free wi-fi bonus well it's hardly free I paid 13.80 to get in So I've just scanned my ticket and I'm in, there was no queue but saved me messing around So here we are at the Salzburg Fortress Looks as though it was once was something kind of waterfall to get rid of all the crap the latrine flow So we've just walked up that steep slope behind me and must admit I'm feeling a bit lethargic today Looks as though there could be plenty of little nooks and crannies I'm not sure which direction I should be going in I'm going to go clockwise See where it takes me I'll apologise ahead of time for any heavy breathing because I'm doing a bit of climbing I'm sure IJ will enjoy it So looks like some shops here where you can buy beers ha, beers in the fortress The weather was meant to be a bit cloudy a bit of rain had some rain this morning, a thunderstorm but it's back to being beautful weather sun's out As I say looks like they're serving drinks, beers, food See what's down here Trying not get them kids in my video in fact I don't like anybody in my video usually not even me, ha Just coming up to a panoramic viewpoint This one is pretty cool WOW! Look at that That is pretty cool See out to the mountains As I say it's a pretty hot today, again Not as hot as it has been but still getting on for 30C You can see the walls of the fortress dotted around the city too in various spots So I'm just leaving that viewpoint and seen some stairs going down to what looks like another cafe Looks like I might end up missing bits of this castle or fortress because there's loads of little nooks and crannies Certainly is a nice place to have some food and a pint I've had better places to sup beer though I've been spoiled I don't fancy a pint until later anyway Ah that's for the funicular That's where you arrive if you take the funicular up and down If you want to be lazy, I've been lazy this week a little bit taking trains and cable cars etc Coming up to another cafe with panoramic views Might just have a drink later before I leave Might just have that beer We'll see what panoramic view this wall gives Looks like a view over the city, this bit Sure is and you can see the wall I was at earlier when those bells started to ring That was pretty cool Pretty cool view Thing is with these kind of places there's always loads of people You can see the funicular coming up It doesn't half cause a racket when you're stood down there it sounds like thunder Ah there's a spot here where there's nobody around For now anyway But yeah it's a pretty cool view So I think I'll climb these stairs now I wonder if I can get up into the tower? It doesn't look like it So about half way up those stairs now getting a better view well a different view bit higher up perspective So just climbing the stairs now getting views into that cafe I passed a short time ago Sure is some pretty good views I'm sure you'll agree Another photo stop So we've just climbed the stairs and come to an interval courtyard Actually I think that's where we walked earlier so I'll make my way around here Canons into the city I wonder how many years since this has been fired Well I've got the full tour so I should be able to go in the puppets Some dodgy looking puppets here, a bat very scary You can buy a knight for 69 euros There's bats flying around Look at that very scary I hope they don't bite I'd be a bit scared here if I was a kid scary place, bats flying around and scary looking puppets Soneones got an evil laugh then it wasn't me, not me There's a photo point here I don't know maybe you just make stupid faces Let's have a look i'm looking scared BOOM! Another canon fired I wonder how it would blast More canons Go up the stairs to the museum I paid the full entrance Museum tour I'm not exactly sure why I booked a museum tour I'm not really into museums I find them a bit boring Scary dude Silverware Creaking floors Nice views out the window Pretty cool place I'm not quite sure what this is I think it's some kind of art Heaven on Earth That's a cool looking ornamental piece That somebodies bed It wouldn't fit me in there I'm 1.83 metres Looks like models of the castle throughout the ages That one's around 1460 And then this is 1495 1515 1540 1619 Don't know about you but it looks like that game of Cluedo with those plaques maybe it's just me let me know if you thought the same in the comments This one's 1653 And quite up to date 1810 He looks an happy chap He looks like me when there's load of people around Ah St Georges church I'm about to enter Sure is lots of nooks and crannies around so it's hard to know where you have been and where you haven't been I'm sure I'll be finding how to get up that tower Ah I've not been out here It looks like another panoramic view So let's see what this gives Sure is a different part of the castle So come into a different viewpoint panoramic view from here I've had a similar to this but not quite from this perspective Sure does give some good views of the city of Salzburg So I think I'm going to go and find how you get up some of these towers Here we go, Observation Tower Not sure if you have pay extra but I've got the full tour So we're now on our way up to the observation deck Pretty cool See what this gives Looks like more museum type guff I'm just interested in seeing views from the tower It's not like me to try and get up high see what the views are The stairs are creaking I think I've been eating too much this week There's quite a few steps before you get to the observation deck which I'm almost at now Pretty cool views So I made it up the tower I can go home Take some photos now Not as many people down here spoiling the view just stand the camera up in the air see what views we can get So we've just left the observation tower making our way down I think that's pretty much the castle tour done Great view and a nice breeze coming through this little window at the side So there was a spiral stair that took you out towards the side of St Georges church entrance I think I've pretty much toured the castle so I'm going to find the exit I think the highlights for me were the views over the city and towards the mountains Looks like the path, or the exit out, is the way we came in so I believe this is the way we came in so find my way back Well actually it wasn't the path I took It's probably one of the paths of to the side that I didn't take This will eventually get us onto the path we was on when we entered but it's a hermit friendly part of the castle or fortress I should say because there is nobody around Ah through that big door I guess it can be a bit slippy on the way down I've been down worse on the mountains So here we coming up to the exit now Another tour