Austria Travel Writer & Photographer

Affairs of the heart – hiking & heritage

There’s really nowhere quite like Austria for hiking. The mountains, lakes and high pastures of the Austrian Alps are an outdoour and landscape photographer’s dream, the network of hiking trails is seemingly inexaustible, the mountain huts some of the most welcoming I have ever stayed in. At the same time its art, architecture and cultural heritage are fascinating beyond words, and as a travel writer and photographer, Austria is simply a place I’ve found myself drawn back to again and again. I wrote the first English-language guidebook to the Alpe Adria Trail, more than half of which runs through the Austrian state of Carinthia, and I’m the author of a new guide to daywalks among the lakes and mountains of Austria’s Salzkammergut region.

Austria guidebooks & articles

Hiking guidebooks to the Austrian Alps, Dachstein and Salzkammergut

As well as hiking guides for Cicerone and Bradt, articles I’ve written on Austria range from hiking across Salzburgerland on the Salzburger Almenweg, to hotel reviews for The Telegraph (Salzburg and Linz), and family winter walking and skiing holidays in Zell am See, Gastein and the Paznaun Valley. I’ve photographed and written about Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria including falconry in the Waldviertel, the carnival (Schemenlaufen) in Imst, and traditional blaudruck (indigo dyeing) textile artists in Burgenland, Upper Austria and Vienna.

Austria Photography by Rudolf Abraham

For images of Austria – including hiking in the Salzkammergut region, the Unesco-listed Dachstein massif, and the Austrian states of Salzburgerland, Upper and Lower Austria and Carinthia, as well as falconry, indigo dyeing and other intangible cultural heritage in Austria – please visit Rudolf Abraham Photography, or click on one of the galleries below.