- Salzburg, Innsbruck & Munich -

          Our first class trip was one of the busiest trips we will have this semester! We started by going to Salzburg where we went on the Sound of Music tour, visited the Salt Mines and visited some other sites like the building where Mozart was born! Then we went to Innsbruck, and from there me and a few other students used our day off to go to Venice for a day trip! We finally made our way to Munich where we visited the Modern Art Museum and went on trips around the city to visit historic places like the Neuschwanstein Castle and Dachau Concentration Camp.

          The trip was a lot of fun but it definitely wore me out a lot and because of that my favorite city was probably Salzburg since it was right at the beginning. One of the coolest things about Salzburg was that it was not a big city, so it was nice to get away from the buildings and busy streets of Vienna and see the country and the mountains. In Salzburg we toured the city a bit and just checked out the points of interest. The first night we went to Hohensalzburg, a fortress on a mountain, and we got to see a cool view of the city.  The next day we went on the Sound of Music tour, and it was really cold but it was fun to see the different spots because we watched the movie in class. The next day we went to the Salt Mine in Salzburg which was a totally unique experience! We had to wear ridiculous white suits and we went all the way to Germany in the underground tunnels. There were also slides that we got to go down, and there is a lake underneath that was used to extract salt and we got to take a ferry across it. We also got pieces of salt rock that we could lick and taste the salt! I really had fun because it was such a unique thing to do!