Mountain Biking! Then Sex-Position Chair Battles? In the same day in AUSTRIA!

The next day we awoke and had breakfast at the hotel, and met some other Contiki travelers from the other Coach that was also staying at our hotel. After breakfast we then got dressed up to mountain bike!

The ride was a 5 mile loop, gradual, sometimes-rocky, and slightly uphill the whole way there, and a flying downhill on the way back. The scenery was breathtaking. We stopped once to rest on the way up and filled up our already-purchased-by-Contiki water bottles from a small, trickling stream on the side of the trail that was literally the best water I have ever tasted! I was a little hesitant to drink water right from the stream, but I swear I have never had anything so fresh and so clean!




We saw mountain goats, cows and 2 black cats crossing the trail (superstitious anyone? haha!). When we made it to the top we had some amazing bratwurst and potatoes for lunch waiting for us at an outdoor café at the top of Gatshof. We are still silly Americans and although apparently this sign means something along the lines of "hot food" the boys loved it that it said "warme kuche" and we all laughed.

Then we flew down the decent from the mountain, which was a complete blast. We had our bikes rented to us for the rest of the day, and the rest of the afternoon was left for us to hit up Hopfgarten.

Rhyno gave us a map and a variety of options of things to do in the town. Some of us decided to go trout fishing. Hopfgarten has a trout farm, and those who went said they caught a fish in about 2 minutes, and then the trout farm crew grilled up the fish that they had caught right there… talk about fresh fish! There was also a cool water park and swimming lake there too, but James and I decided we wanted to take the gondola and chairlift ride to the park and church at the top of the ski resort.

One of the lifts was a single person lift with barely any restraint, which was probably the most intense chairlift I had ever been on, but scarily-fun! The view of the mountains from the top was spectacular. After coming back down the lifts we biked to pick up some schnapps from a local market and went back to the hotel for drinking and getting ready for the night.

Since the hotel was owned by Contiki, the staff decided to throw us a “pimps and hos” party for the two Coaches staying at the hotel. We all got dressed up and the staff hosted a pimps vs. hos trivia game (aka the girls on one side had questions about sports, supermodels and beer and the boys were asked stuff like Sex and the City trivia, fashion and make-up) The contest ended in a sexual-position battle where one boy and one girl had to battle to see who could come up with the most sex positions in an allotted amount of time (and do them. physically. on the floor of the bar or with a chair that the staff had allotted “sex-position-chair”.) I don’t remember if the guys or the girls ultimately won, so yeah… that means that I was having fun. I spent the whole night chatting with random new friends from the other Coach, and ended up actually staying up the entire night. We decided to walk to a bench to watch the sunrise over the mountains, which was gorgeous! And before we knew it, it was all the sudden time for breakfast! Thankfully we had a bus ride to Munich to take a nap the next day! What a fun night, I would have never guessed there would have been so much to do in there, but Contiki showed us all the hidden treasures of the quaint little town (and then threw us a party!) What a fun night!

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”- Miriam Bea