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Spa town in the district of Liezen in Styria, Austria

Free at last, with time to call your own. Get over to austria and turn it into real-time. everything’s happening here – sports for you and you and you: boarding, ice climbing, alpine skiing and a whole lot more besides. but top of the list is: FUN FUN FUN. on the slopes, in the pipe and après whatever. Time becomes real-time when you can choose from the very best of events, locations and places to stay: choose austria – choose life!

That means out into the fresh air, for a bike ride or a dip in the lake. There are so many summer activities to choose from in Austria you’d have to stay a good three months to get through them. Europe’s foremost family holiday destination holds out the promise of endless fun while you’re out and about. There’s an unwritten law prohibiting boredom throughout the summer, so don’t expect a single dull moment. Instead, brace yourself for unforgettable memories of the countryside, thrilling adventure trails and action-packed children’s leisure programmes. Incidentally, the age limit for kids in Austria is upwards of 90. So head straight for the place where children of any age have the times of their lives.

With 50,000 kilometers of marked hiking trails of varying degrees of difficulty, Austria is a unique hiking paradise. Numerous theme trails through picturesque landscapes as well as mountain and climbing tours through the idyllic valleys and deep gorges, clear mountain brooks and thundering waterfalls, alpine pastures in bloom, and breathtaking climbs are an adventure for the entire family. The intensive experience of mountains, water and sun as well as pristine nature, the comfort and cosiness make your hiking holiday in Austria an unforgettable experience. Dive into the fascinating experience of hiking and fill up on new energy for the body and soul with healthy exercise in nature.

Austria is fortunate enough to harbour some of Europe’s finest cycling routes. They are meticulously signposted, follow reserved cycling trails or side roads with little motorised traffic, and in many cases take you along river banks or lake shores. The ideal bicycle here is a light-weight trekking bike with moderately wide tyres and good gears. The hotels and inns along the way cater to the needs of cycle tourists, and special maps and route descriptions are available to guide you to the numerous sights and beauty spots that lie en route.

When was the last time you swam in drinking water? Of the many summer pleasures for which Austria is a synonym, water sports and bathing are just one. For those who feel as much in their element in (or on) the water as on land, this country is endowed with every imaginable natural resource, from bathing lakes (water quality rating: drinking water!) to crystal-clear mountain torrents for the thrills and spills of white-water sports.

There’s also plenty happening on the lakeside beaches in southern Austria. Guests of all ages have endless fun in and by the water of, for instance, Wörther See – just one of Carinthia’s many bathing lakes – or one of the lakes in Salzkammergut, where the mountainsides and the pastures come right down to the lake shore. Austrian summers can be very hot, and a splash in the lukewarm water makes the ideal refreshment. Often you can dive in straight from the lakeside hiking path. But the best places for real swimming are the beaches.

Even on cloudy days you don’t have to forego your daily swim: many resorts have indoor pools, with endlessly long chutes, artificial waterfalls and wave machines thrown in. The sheer variety of Austria’s holidays by the water needs to be seen to be believed.

114 golf courses at your disposal! Austria has a superb infrastructure for golfers of every handicap. Beginners at PE/EPE level are also welcome at virtually all of the courses.

The unique charm of Austria’s golf courses is their setting, with this country’s memorable landscapes as an ever-present background. This is true of the courses high up in the Alps as much as it is those in the undulating hill-country. The facilities range from one 45-hole, two 36-hole and four 27-hole courses to more than seventy 18-hole courses (eight of these with an additional 9-hole par 3 course).

Given this dense network of courses and their relative proximity, in the course of a golfing holiday in Austria you can conveniently visit several courses. There are several money-saving programmes which include the green fees and the opportunity to try a different course every day. Austria’s golf hotels also offer various packages in which the green fees are included.

If you have a hankering to learn this fascinating sport, Austria is an ideal place to start. There are golf schools with highly qualified pros as instructors throughout Austria. Many golf clubs have their own training facilities – The Golf Academy in Seefeld, for instance (with a regular 6-hole course in the middle of the town), or the golf schools in St. Michael im Lungau, Radstadt, Bad Kleinkirchheim, Pörtschach, or the David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Bad Tatzmannsdorf.

The Holiday Specialist “Golf in Austria” provides a selection of special packages in more than eighty golf hotels and more than forty golf courses in Austria.

Experience freedom on horseback - The feeling of "natural freedom" is inseparably linked to riding horseback in nature. Austria offers a manifold of possibilities of practicing this beautiful sport. But not just riders, carriage drivers and sportsmen are sure to get their money’s worth, too.

Alternative sports used to be an offshoot of winter sports. Now the trend has long since switched to summer as well – especially in Austria with its packed programmes of outdoor activities. Whether you discover the thrill of swooping through the air with a hangglider or make up your mind to “zorb” down the mountainside – one thing your won’t experience in an Austrian summer is boredom.

The great thing about these alternative sports is that they always involve a first-hand encounter with Nature at its most grandiose: the white water of canyoning rivers, the towering cliff faces with which rock climbers grapple, or the lush green mountain pastures over which paragliders make their graceful descents. And in every case: no end of bracing fresh air.

The key factor is always safety. Austria is renowned for its highly qualified trainers, whose experience can prove invaluable.