Hallstatt 1998

Jo-Ann
Went to Hallstatt and went down the salt mine.  Quite a trip up to the top of the mountain in a railed cable car.  Got dressed in special clothes and went into the salt mine on a train, then slid down wooden slides to the mine.  Very good trip we were gone about 6 hrs.  I would recommend the salt trip to everyone.  Walked Hallstatt, saw the church and the graveyard.  They dig up the bones and put them into a room and paint the skulls.  This is because the graveyard is too small.  We were going to stay in Hallstatt but I'm glad we stayed in St Wolfgang, more to do.


Christian 
Day 17 - Today we went to the salt mine at Hallstatt.  It's the oldest salt mine in the world.  Before you go in the salt mine you have to dress in special clothes because you go down on a big wooden slide to get into the mine.  We went past a pool of water the size of a football field, 5 degrees cold and 18 m deep.  It's a perfect reflection of the roof.  The point of this pool is to mine salt.  It dissolves the rock form of salt into brine which is salty water.  If you swam in it you would float without even paddling like in the dead sea.  Tomorrow we are going on boats.


Joshua
Day 17 - Today we went to a salt mine and on the way there was a skeleton in a hut.  It took a long time to get up the hill, then when we got to the place where you had to get dressed we sat down and waited for our number to get called out. Then we walked up to a little train that took you into the mine.  We went to a slide show, then we walked a really long walk and got to another slide down that slide was a pool that used to fill up and the roof would cave in. They turned the lights on and there was a reflection of the roof in the water.  Then we went on a spiral staircase and we did a long walk again and went out.