With Vienna’s high culture and the Alps’s high mountains, Austria offers different extremes of beauty. Many of the world’s most famous composers and thinkers, including Mozart and Freud, called Austria home. Today, its small villages brim with locally brewed beer, jagged peaks draw hikers and skiers, and magnificent palaces, museums, and concerts are omnipresent. Stroll along the blue Danube River or relax in a Viennese coffeehouse and listen to a waltz.
Holy Romans And Hapsburgs (800-1740). Austria has been both a barrier between and a meeting point for Eastern and Western Europe ever since the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne conquered the Bavarians ...more
Official Name: Republic of Austria. Capital: Vienna. Major Cities: Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg. Population: 8,205,000. Land Area: 82,400 sq. km. Language ...more
Austria caters more to tourism than volunteerism; there are only limited opportunities to give back, so your best bet is to find them through a placement service. Short-term work abounds at hotels, ski ...more
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For 52 years, we have published the world’s favorite budget travel guides, written entirely by students and updated every year. With pen and notebook in hand and a few changes of underwear stuffed in our backpacks, we spend months roaming the globe in search of travel bargains.
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