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Re:Innsbruck - Graz Driving Route Advice, Please Help
Date: 2008/01/25 17:18 By: basketman Status:  
 
Vienna to Salzburg, city center to city center, will be about 2.5 to 3 hours on the Autobahn; much longer on “federal” roads where you'll go through town after town with heavy traffic. From there to Innsbruck (a boring town, by the way) is about 90 minutes via Autobahn.

If you're leaving Innsbruck for a flight that leaves the following evening from Vienna you don't have time for many stops or much off-Autobahn driving. I would recommend that instead you spend less time in Innsbruck and work your way back to Vienna along a southerly route, stopping two or three nights along the way. Drive the Gerlos Pass, see the Krimml Falls, maybe drive the Grossglockner (a fantastic mountain road), go south of Graz along the Slovenian border and drive the Südsteirische Weinstrasse (Styrain Wine Road). Combine some Autobahn driving with backroads. You need maps with a scale of 1:200,000 or, even better, 1:150,000.

Actually I would phone Gemut.com at 800-521-6722, spend a few bucks and let Liz, their itinerary planner, suggest a route and good places to stay.
Basketman
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