CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 349 km round trip from Berchtesgaden - roughly 5 h 29 in the saddle. The stops in between: See, Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur, Abtsdorf III and back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Germany into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 41 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go — slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
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For 1 km this is Salkammergut Lakes Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Berchtesgaden sits in the far southeast corner of Germany, in a pocket of Bavaria that pokes into Austria, and the mountains here do not bother to be modest. The Watzmann, at 2,713 metres Germany's second highest mountain, stands above the valley in a long ridge, with the pale wall of the Hochkalter opposite. The town is the end of the German Alpine Road, which runs from Lake Constance, and it feels like the end of the line, with the peaks closing in on all sides. For centuries the local economy rested on salt, and the salt mine, worked since the sixteenth century, is open to visitors who put on miners' clothes and slide down the wooden chutes.
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Berchtesgaden is where the day begins. Next is See.
At the southeastern tip of the Mondsee, where the lake narrows toward the Attersee and the cliffs of the Drachenwand and the Schafberg crowd in on both sides, lies a hamlet with the shortest name you will find on any map: See. Just offshore, in the shallow water where the lake drains, divers found the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement, and the finds were so characteristic that archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after the lake: the Mondsee culture, known for its decorated pottery and early copper working. The site is part of the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and as with most of them, there is nothing to see except the water, which is part of the point.
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See comes up 36 km in. Next is Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
Salt made all of this. Long before anyone thought of postcards, people were tunnelling into the mountain above Hallstatt for it, and finds from the prehistoric mine and its cemetery were so rich that archaeologists named a whole phase of the European Iron Age, the Hallstatt culture, after a village you can walk across in ten minutes. The Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut cultural landscape, inscribed in 1997, takes in the lake, the village, the salt mountain, the limestone massif of the Dachstein and the valleys around Gosau, Bad Goisern and Bad Aussee.
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73 km in you reach Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur. Next is Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
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Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur, about halfway. Next is Abtsdorf III.
The Attersee is the biggest lake in the Salzkammergut, and Abtsdorf sits on its western shore, a settlement so small the label can get away with a Roman numeral. In this case the III means a third spot among a cluster of lake access points, so what you are really visiting is the shoreline between Attersee village and Weyregg, where the water is startlingly clear and the mountains stand up behind the opposite bank.
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Abtsdorf III sits at 146 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
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back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur comes up 182 km in.
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218 km in you reach back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur. Next is back through See.
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back through See, late in the day. Next is Berchtesgaden.
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Read the complete Berchtesgaden write-up.
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The route ends here after 349 km.
Berchtesgaden → See is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
See → Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → Abtsdorf III is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Abtsdorf III → back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → back through See is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through See → Berchtesgaden is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.