Introduction
We stayed in Austria three days and we choose to stay in Alpendorf village, in Pongau area, situated at about 50 km south of Salzburg and we stayed at Der Alpenblick hotel. One of the attractions you can visit around Pongau is the spectacular Liechtensteinklamm (Liechtenstein gorge), which is also what we did. It’s famous because it’s emerging you into a great experience where the turquoise waters went deeply digging into the mountains, leaving behind this gorge full of waterfalls thundering among the huge rocky walls and cliffs.
The walls can go up to over 300 m around some parts of the gorge and the opened to the public length of the gorge is around 1,2 km. The gorge actually goes on much longer, it’s said to be around 4 km long, however only the first 1,2 km are opened to the public. You will reach the end when you get to a waterfall that is 49m tall – called Liechtenstein wasserfall. Please make sure to wear adequate equipment for this walk, the route can be slippery on some parts and it’s also always in the shadow for most of the time, however the path it’s absolutely safe and well maintained as you’ll see in the pictures.
Gorge details
Here are more details if the pictures below will convince you and you plan to visit Liechtensteinklamm:
- Parking is free and there are several parking places located a few hundred meters before the Liechtensteinklamm
- If you are coming by car, here is the Google Maps location where you need to arrive
- In 2022 a ticket costs 11 euro for each adult
- Opening times are daily between 9.00 – 18.00
- It can be pretty crowded between 10.00 and 13.00, including longer waiting times for purchasing entry tickets that you’ll find right before the walk in the gorge starts.
- There are also two restaurants and a souvenir shop before the entrance if you want to relax and do small shopping
- The whole walk would take you between 1 and 2 hours, including photo breaks
- We recommend doing this visit in the morning, combined with visiting the Hohenwerfen Castle in the afternoon, which is also what we did
Enjoy the photos and please share this with your friends if you think they’ll be interested in the Liechtensteinklamm.
