In the morning we took a bus out of town to see the "trick fountains" at Hellbrun. They were a bit cheesy, especially in presentation by the tour guide, but it was a good time too. Also, it was really impressive to see what they did entirely with water power, without electricity or any other power source.
There was also a nice little palace on the grounds that we enjoyed exploring. It had some fantastic wood inlay, and the dinning room had some great murals.
Next we were thinking of taking a cable car to the top of an almost 2000 m peak nearby (which we could do for "free" with our 24 hour Salzburg sightseeing card), but it was overcast (mountains all had their heads in the clouds) and threatening to rain, so we decided it would probably be pretty disappointing and not really worth the time. Instead we made our way back to town and took the cable car up to the castle.
We took the castle tour, we started in a room with models of the castle. They did a nice job of showing how the castle evolved over time. Next up was a room with a variety of torture instruments. They didn't actually do the torturing here, but prisoners were chained up in it. Then we went to the top of the tower for some awesome views of Salzburg. They also showed us a mechanical clock/organ thing, which by the time we are blogging, both Mary and I don't recall much about.
After that, we headed down the hill to see the Abbey that we missed before, the one from the
Sound of Music. It only looked like we had access to the church, which was small and quite dark. Then we walked back down the hill and explored the little "catacombs" near the cemetery we saw on our way down.
Afterward, we walked home along the river, passing a market. One of the stalls had some stuff that we saw in India. Small world. We picked up our luggage and headed off to Munich.
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