scenic alpine town of Werfen in this video  visiting the Austrian Alps we'll show you  

how to get to Werfen by train we'll take  you on a tour of Hohenwerfen castle you can  

probably drink it in austria wouldn't you say  i would say we'll live out our sound of music  

dreams on the most idyllic meadow we'll try to  befriend some cows along the way you can hear  

our new friends the cows and we'll end  the day with a delicious meal in town  

jelly belly so we invite you to subscribe and  join us on this fun day trip from salzburg  

we've made it hello friends welcome to the  town of Werfen yeah here we are here we are  

got a nice little castle there in the background  if you can see that this is the reason we wanted  

to go on this day trip basically because it's a  scenic little town at the foot of the mountains  

gorgeous Hohenwerfen castle right behind us in the  Austrian Alps and we're planning to do a little  

hike called the sound of music trails so i'm  feeling pretty happy yeah oh i'm pumped for it so  

yeah let's talk about the train ride over a piece  of cake wasn't it piece of cake so you basically  

have two different options for the train there is  a direct one that is a 40-minute journey however  

that one wasn't leaving soon enough so what we  did is we had to transfer yeah you overshoot it  

you end up overshooting and then backtracking by  one stop you overshoot the town by one station  

and then come right back on a different train  but to be honest the journey is so scenic that  

i mean i could have spent another hour on the  train oh my gosh it was that nice i mean you were  

going through these picturesque towns there were  valleys there were mountains (Austrian Alps) they  

had it all yeah we were filming the whole time  basically and just enjoying the scenery so  

so yeah wonderful spot and now we're gonna walk  into town first off the castle also i keep calling  

this place the Hohenwerfen castle but technically  it is a fortress a fortress we are visiting but a  

very beautiful one at that and we're going to be  taking the footpath that runs along the river but  

first sam wanted to run down to the water and show  you the color of this river this is the salzach  

river which also flows through salzburg and like  the color is just stunning it looks like a glacial  

river like it kind of has that milky greenish blue  like a milky turquoise i would say so yeah yeah  

i was i was mesmerized by the turquoise waters  had to come down had to get a shot of it yeah  

so beautiful so beautiful oh another thing to  mention i just saw a sign you can actually go  

on little like speed boat boat tours on this river  and kind of just zip along so if you're kind of  

into that adventure thing you can definitely  do that here and yeah like just look forest  

mountains this is what i pictured when when  i thought of austria like when i think of  

travel in austria this is it right here  this is us and our elements we've spent  

quite a bit of time in cities and towns  so we are loving being in nature right now

hi sammy boy hi there  

how are you enjoying this walk well it's amazing  i mean what's so cool is you have the contrast of  

the castle with the forest and then right in front  of us it's just farmland it's very fascinating  

yeah the contrast and i'm also really excited too  i mean we're gonna go visit the Hohenwerfen castle  

first but i'm also really excited to just  walk in the village and see the architecture  

of the different houses it looks fascinating  definitely that traditional austrian style

here we are here we are so we've officially  entered the footpath bike watch out for those  

traffic jams here on the footpath anyways  we have officially entered the footpath here  

yeah and guys we've been cheating a little bit  lately we've been taking the trams the funiculars  

today we're earning it we are walking all the  way up we're gonna earn those spectacular views  

using our own two feet exactly well you know  what we're gonna work up a nice big appetite  

that's a thing and then enjoy some hearty  alpine dishes oh oh there's an elevator okay  

this is the way we go up now we're off now we're  off on the proper another dirt path but if you  

wanted to you can take an elevator not today  not today but there is one moment of truth here  

for this trip i packed three pairs  of long pants we've maybe been here  

in germany and austria for two and a half weeks  would you say yep okay well we're at the point  

where one pair no longer fits the second pair  is quite tight and the third one my loose pants  

i'm okay in those but that is why this hike is  very much necessary so you can probably tell  

from the food videos we've been involved  we've been stuffing our beaks and all  

sorts of things yeah yeah i feel i feel the  same way actually fortunately two pairs of  

pants that i brought have drawstrings so oh  i'm able to expand with the belly i can't  

you might have to start purchasing those types  of pants if you want coming back here again  

jogging pants just wear stretchy jogging pants for  your trip to this part of the world but honestly  

no regrets i've loved the food every single bite  so yeah just gonna have to walk it off walk it off

Hohenwerfen  

castle was built between the years  1075 and 1078 and it is considered  

the sister castle to Hohensalzburg which is  the fortress overlooking the city of salzburg  

this particular castle sits on a  peak high above the salzach valley  

and it is surrounded by mountains (Austrian Alps)  one thing to keep in mind before you visit is that  

the Hohenwerfen castle is only open from april  to november so it's not a year-round attraction

well hello and welcome to the fortress yeah we  made it it actually wasn't that long of a walk it  

was quite steep what if you when you get up here  it's just it's just an amazing feeling to kind of  

have earned your views have earned your castle um  so yeah we've entered now the price is 13.90 euro  

per person and we've decided that the restaurant  is completely full apparently not available  

anything available for an hour yeah so we're  just ordered some food from the concession  

and apparently this entitles us to a 40-minute  guided tour so that is the only way that you  

can see specific areas within the castle  so we'll eat and then we'll probably join  

a tour i believe they happen on the hour  so yeah we should be able to catch it's 12  

20 we should be able to catch the one o'clock tour  okay guys so we are just considering this a snack  

not our main meal of the day no um  so we got a burger with a schnitzel  

chicken schnitzel yeah what's it  chicken yeah it's chicken okay  

yeah and a burger bun with tomato and lettuce  we're gonna share it and then some kind of grilled  

sausage with fries i don't know the name of this  sausage it didn't say it just it looks white  

but it's not fat like the vice most the  white sausage that they eat a lot in bavaria

tastes good could be a veal sausage could also  be a chicken sausage i just don't know maybe

just a quick meal because we have  30 minutes before the tour starts  

and we did get our tickets look i got the tickets  for one o'clock and the tour is the only way to  

see certain parts of the fortress like the  chapel dungeon torture rooms the arsenal i  

think there's like a tower so well worth it you  need to go with a guide and you need to book  

a spot because they only take a certain number  of people every hour the guide the tour is going  

to be in german but they're giving us an audio  guide in english so that's what we'll be doing um  

bye

so

one hour later an hour later we just  finished our guided tour of the fortress  

and we have some thoughts lots the fortress  itself is very interesting and it was really good  

going around but yeah the the guide wasn't so into  it you're kind of going through the motions of it  

um the best part what are the views at the top  tower yes so we went up the bell tower the hook  

tower actually yeah and you can go right to the  very tippy top and then you go outside and you  

just walk around in a circle 360 degree views of  the mountains (Austrian Alps) you can see the town  

below the river you can even see another town  off in the distance yeah that was really i mean  

that was amazing so if i was to give this place  a report card my personal report card would be  

the high cup a mm-hmm the actual fortress  itself castle itself and a and the views in a  

the food and the tour were no not a name or  we're like a deer is he but but you know this  

fortress is actually really famous for its birds  of prey demonstration like they have falcons and  

vultures and really all sorts of birds and they  do a show twice a day um we missed that yeah i  

just caught a few clips of birds flying around  this morning yeah but that's why people come here  

that's true i mean if we were gonna wait  for the next show we wouldn't be able to do  

really anything else in town so it  is time for us to make our way down

do

well we are on the trail we found it so this is  the sound of the music trail we found the entrance  

just kind of towards the end of town going up  the hill and so far we're the only ones here  

we have it all to ourselves and it's nice  and shaded on the trail which is really nice  

because today is one of those warmer days so you  really feel the heat in the sun but here it's like  

completely different temperature so much cooler  and yeah we're really enjoying it i'm hoping that  

there's some kind of little cafe or eatery when we  reach the top i wouldn't mind a dessert a coffee  

ice cream so we'll see once we get there okay  so we found this musical instrument and this  

is going to play the do re mi song from the sound  of music so i'm pretty pumped for it so you think

that doesn't sound good does it

didn't really quite sound like it but  

i mean it says the sound of music trail  and then it has the lyrics to dory me  

doe a deer a female dear la la la la la la la la  right but when we played it it would sound like it  

that's okay well guys this has definitely been  the most exercise we've had on the entire trip  

it's been great to get out and go for two  nice long walks today and when we were  

walking through town i was started dreading i'm  like oh the midday sun was kind of roasting us  

it was probably like 20 to 25 degrees as soon as  we got into the forest part it's so refreshing  

and i just love it and what did you  find can you drink the water you think  

it's coming down from the mountain  wash your hands wash my hands  

it feels nice and cold you can probably drink it  in austria wouldn't you say i would say i cannot  

get diarrhea and i won't be hiking tomorrow  yeah this will be your last hike of all time  

it tastes earthy i don't know if i'm gonna  drink any more it does kind of quench your  

thirst maybe it's just for like you  know cooling down water there you go  

the moment she said oh my gosh don't  take a rest first before we film she said  

oh this feels so nice oh my gosh and  look at the views you just go like this

wow she's a little bit a little washed out  but it's the perfect position like it's so  

ergonomic after hiking like this is the  position you want to be in we can legit  

take a nap here oh man i could fall asleep on  this wooden bunch i think i might 15 minutes  

oh this is so good is that the alarm oh  i feel like my back is straightening out  

stop talking about let me experience it too also  i don't think you realize but you are sleeping  

on top of the lyrics to one of the sound of music  songs oh mamma mia do you know the raindrops on  

roses and whiskers on kittens bright copper  kettles and warm woolen mittens brown paper  

packages tied up with string these are a  few of my favorite things and now why not

dun dun

okay so all the benches have different  songs from the sound of music this next one

well it starts with high on the  hill was a lonely go turn your leg

okay and one more oh my gosh he says  this one is oh you're gonna like this  

cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels  doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with  

noodles with noodles hey that's what i'll probably  be having for soccer tonight actually seriously  

wild geese that fly with the moon on the  wings spatula these are a few of my favorite

our natural out of tune singing should prevent  us from getting a copyright strike oh my gosh  

the ironic thing the ironic thing is that  sam comes from a family of musicians like  

your grandparents were musicians you're  extended relatives and get them jeans  

pretty successful musicians didn't get those  jeans and neither did you we're both terrible

oh this one you just you form the lyrics  is that it do you spin it or why don't you  

make up your own that'd be more fun  climb every mountain search high and

music hello where's high the  sound oh there's high yes  

climb every mountain search  high and low learn how to sing

if you follow the sound of music trail it'll  lead you to an idyllic field which is where  

maria taught the children the dory me song and  they enjoyed a picnic it's a must visit spot if  

you're a fan of the movie but even if you aren't  the scenery itself is worth the journey up there

made it to the top yeah you  can hear our new friends  

the moosies the cows imagine having  that bell on and making that noise with  

every two well yeah that's what you were  saying that's it's a resounding clang it

we is a lot of exercise today we sure did yeah we  always got this mountain totally totally worth it  

these are actually the best views of the mountains  (Austrian Alps) right here this makes it feel like