Chalet School Land Day Five

View from the very top of the Krimml waterfalls

Apologies for the lapses in posting, but there have been two days' worth of excursions which have been exhausting/finished late, and blogging has been the last thing on my mind!

Thursday was an excursion to the Krimml Waterfalls. I didn't originally think of this as qualifying as Chalet School, but I've changed my mind. Firstly, water-based events are a regular occurrence in the series. Secondly, waterfalls also feature. Thirdly (and I'm ashamed to confess that I didn't realise this!), Krimml Falls are in the Gerlos Pass in the Zillerthal, which is a CS connection. This was described by our tour company, Thomson/Crystal as a half day tour. As we started at 10.30 am and got back to the Hotel Post at 6.45 pm, that doesn't quite qualify as "half day"!!


Rainbow from the spray

The run down through to Mayerhofen and Zell-am-Ziller was really scenic. We had a wonderful local guide, Charlotte, from whom we received lots of information. The Gerlos pass is 1628m high and the Krimml Waterfalls are the highest in Europe. you CAN walk all the way up them, but you really would have to be fit to do that. There are combinations of taxis to the middle station or the top and then back down; or you can choose to walk back down.



Bravely (we thought!), we decided to taxi to the top and walk down - approximately one and a half to one and three quarters of an hour. We managed it in an hour and ten minutes and felt really proud of ourselves. Mind, at times we were almost running down the path, it was so steep!! Was it worth it? Yes, it most emphatically was !! The views of the Falls were amazing and at times you could get close enough to breathe in the spray (which Charlotte told us was very health-giving). Lots of rainbows too. And the noise - couldn't hear whether the shutter had clicked on the camera. There was a perfectly situated gasthof at the bottom, where we could reward ourselves with a beer and a view of the lower part of the falls.