Travel report: The crowning stage from Lake Königssee to Lake Wörthersee

The mountain hiking tour from Lake Königssee to Lake Wörthersee, 10 days is an absolute highlight for all mountain hiking fans. Here not only summit-baggers can get their money’s worth, but everyone can experience the beauty of nature, numerous mountain ridges with 3,000 metre peaks, lakes, mountain streams and waterfalls from Bavaria to Carinthia in the most wonderful way – by foot. The varied route leads along good mountain and hiking paths and you won’t miss any highlights on your way. The perfect time for this tour is from June to September. The start is in Schönau am Königssee and from there it heads through the Berchtesgaden National Park over the border to Austria and past the impressive waterfalls on the Seisenbergklamm to Weißbach. The next day the route leads on a wonderful high-altitude hike to Dienten am Hochkönig. Continue along the Gasteiner Höhenweg and across deep gorges to the health resort of Bad Gastein.

But before Verena goes back downhill and home, she tells us her absolute highlights of the stage:

• Natural idyll: “It doesn’t get any greener – that’s what particularly impressed me on this stage. The blooming alpine meadows, rushing mountain streams and many waterfalls – plus the Tauern with numerous 3,000 metre peaks in the background – simply fantastic!”
• Crossing the Alps without background noise: “On this tour, the noise from everyday life fades away. During the entire route you are far away from the tourist crowds and can listen to the sound of cowbells, grazing sheep and babbling brooks.”
• Alpine enjoyment like the olden days: “At the Hagener Hütte we were welcomed by the friendly innkeeper and spoiled with culinary treasures from the Alp. The dishes are prepared as they were historically and you can taste that too. From the wonderful Pofesen, potato cheese breads, cheese dumplings, blueberry pie, tasty alpine cheese or fresh milk from the alpine cows, no wish is left ungranted.”

After this stage, Verena is heading back home – but we will tell you how this hiking tour from Lake Königssee to Lake Wörthersee, 10 days continues. After all, the route has many other highlights in store. On the sixth day, it heads from Mallnitz through the Seebachtal around the Stappitzer See, through gorges, past refreshing waterfalls and on to the adventurous climbs to the Obervellach in the Mölltal. The following day, the Way of St. James leads up the Wolfsberg, along the Millstätter ridge and the Egelsee nature reserve to Döbriach am Millstätter See – the second largest lake in Carinthia. The very next day you will experience a wonderful panoramic point over the Millstätter See – the star balcony in the middle of the Carinthian Nockberge. Note: If you book the hiking tour from Lake Königssee to Lake Wörthersee, 8 days, you will head home on this day. Your last hiking stage takes you along the shores of Lake Ossiach and over the small Tauern to Velden and the Wörthersee and finally to Villach – the final destination of your hiking holiday, where you can review the wonderful mountain experience of hiking in the Alps.