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The planned destination on this day was, as you already know, Liechtensteinklamm. This is a striking attraction relatively close (15 minutes by bus) to Pongau (once again, the village our hotel resides at). The bus trip was followed with a walk towards and into the mountains. At one point, the path split into two and we were at a loss on deciding which way to go. You might wonder, weren’t there any signs to guide us? Of course there were, but place yourself in our shoes, and imagine standing in front of this sign, showing the following:

Now also add that you have no dictionary or (instant) translation (yes, silly of us not to have been prepared for this, but you have to forget something during a vacation). Wouldn’t you feel lost as well? However, it wasn’t too bad. We only wasted a little time: 5 minutes staring at the sign, 10 minutes walking through ‘Spazierweg’, 10 minutes walking back to the sign, 5 minutes walking through ‘Wanderweg’, 5 minutes walking back and finally going through ‘Spazierweg’ once again. Funnily enough, it turned out that both were correct paths. Spazierweg, the one we chose, meant ‘footpath’, which was a rough way through the trees. On the other hand, wanderweg meant ‘track’ or ‘road’, which was a wide and easy road towards the gorge’s entrance. Ah well, let us just say that not knowing if the path we took is the correct one is part of the fun in itself.

At last we arrived at this gorge. Certainly, there were a few magnificent views of the waterfalls, with the water powerfully flowing through it. Passing in between the extremely high rocks of the mountains, along with hearing the constant flow of water as well as (and especially) watching the plunging waves made it all an unforgettable experience.

Talking about the gorge itself stops here; however I have to add something (or rant) about the place. Since this place is definitely a popular tourist attraction, I’d expect the ‘high’ people to employ some competent translator to translate all the signs into good english. I realized that signs were either in their native language only, or translated into unprofessional English, so to say. Let’s start going through the small series of mobile-taken photos:

...Avter some revlection, I decided to revrain from commenting on this. Though after serious analysis and meditation, I think they wanted to write ‘Climbing on the hand rail is forbidden’...

This is just confluencing... I mean, confusing me. I’m not exactly sure what it’s meaning should really be, perhaps not to bump on other people? Or to walk in a straight line. In any case, it also says the hand rail might be overloaded...huh? Maybe with people ‘ascending’ on it?

Okay sir, I’ll avaid stopping on...brigdes, whatever brigdes may be. I can’t say I’m an expert in the Italian language, but I am good enough to say that it is far from correct, quite possibly worse than the English translation. Someone proficient in French can comment on the French translation.

Amazing. You can find the gorge’s security forces in these rocky zones. Although I could see nothing but rocks, I’m sure there was a secret door leading to a secret room where the secret security secretly and securely watching over each and every person. Oh wait, maybe it meant, safe-zone? Now that’s a whole different case.