We went on the salt mine tour in Hallstatt, which included truly authentic miners' garb:
Although brimming with hokey-ness, the tour really was quite cool. It started out with a long walk through tiny tunnels:
We got to slide down two sets of wooden slides, which may have been the highlight:
We learned all about salt, how it formed into the pockets found in Hallstatt, as well as how it was mined. Some pretty glowing salt blocks:
At the very end of the tour, the whole tour group rides a long mine cart through a tiny tunnel for what feels like ages until it emerges out into the sunlight. Well, not sunlight in Hallstatt - more like out into the cloudy rainy afternoon. Paul got a pretty good video of it (by the way, if you are getting these blog posts through email, you will have to visit the blog website to view the videos):
