(9/09/2010) Salt mines, birds of prey show at the castle, and hike to see the river.
On Thursday we went on tour to the Salzkammergut. First, we visited the salt mines. At the salt mines we had to wear big white shirts and pants. It looked like we were wearing giant white jump suits or members of the KKK when we put on our hoods. We all lined up and sat on this long train bench. We rode underground for a while before we got off and walked in the tunnel. We had a funny tour guide who told us how they used to work the salt mines and all this other stuff. At the end of the tour we got little containers of salt to keep. When we had free time at the salt mines we played around on a playground and looked at little huts in a Celtic village.
After the salt mines we went to a castle. While waiting for the tour to start people tried using the stilts. Jamie and Erin were actually really good at walking with the stilts. I tried it, but I couldn’t stand on them for more than 3 seconds. We went on a tour of the castle and afterwards saw a birds of prey show. The show was all in German and I was really tired so I couldn’t focus. The trainers were dressed as Robin Hood and then they would let the bird fly around the castle. There was one super huge bird that was actually interesting to watch and they had a bald eagle, but all the other birds were really small. On the way back from the Salzkammergut we stopped the bus and went on a tiny hike to see a part of the river that had lots of rapids. It looked like it could have been about class 3 or 4, I actually don’t know. But I could clearly see the “V” in the river, which I learned about when I first started kayaking. I was super exhausted from the scavenger hunt the day before and from all the touring that I just went to bed super early that night.
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