Pix: Inside the salt mine (minus crazy slides and Wonka boat)
Because do I have video of crazy slides and Wonka boat still to come.
First, you put on the suit. Does salt get on folks anymore? No. But still.
Fortunately for your silliness, everybody has to put on the suit.
Then you take the train into the mine. Try to keep your hands inside.
A multilingual tour guide wears the jackets the tourists used to wear.
Turns out my first time in Germany outside an airport is underground.
We're all a little weirded out by this.
Somewhat less strange but just as cool: Salt lamps.
Back to weird: Not a real person. Lemme tell you about salt.
Also not a real person. Lemme tell you about guys who didn't make it.
When done (again, vids of coolest stuff to come), it's train time again.
The train soon rattles outside. It would rain later that day but not yet.
We walked up a tall, steep hill and found beer, sausage and strudel.
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 AM
More Wonka-ness! And that whipped cream looks AMAZING.
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Train, slides, Wonka boat coming this afternoon. And the whipped cream was indeed amazing. We needed it after that hill.
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:34 PM
[...] rode a train deep into the Hallein salt mine. We raced down slides. Then, on top of everything else and cool family history, we rode a boat across an underground lake once used for salt leaching. [...]