Local Living Tours & Trips in Austria

Stay in charming local hotels in traditional wine villages like Weißenkirchen and Spitz, where you'll get complimentary wine tastings at family-run wineries along ancient cellar alleys. Sample regional apricot treats and Wachauer wines at local taverns in Joching and Wösendorf, Austria's largest wine-growing community.

A guided food and market tour takes you through the Grätzls neighbourhood, stopping at traditional cafés where locals actually hang out to learn about Viennese coffee culture. You'll try your hand at strudel making during a baking workshop and earn a diploma, then visit Vollpension café where grandmothers and grandfathers serve homemade treats.

This self-guided 8-day cycling trip takes you along Austria's Drau Cycle Path from Lienz in the Dolomites through Carinthia's lake district and Alpine valleys. You'll bike past medieval castles like Greifenburg, Neustein and Raggnitz, then check out Roman excavations at the Carantana Museum near Spittal an der Drau.

Cycle 47 km through lakeside villages from Bad Ischl to Thalgau, passing St. Gilgen where Mozart's mother was born and the local Krottensee. Stay in 4-star places with breakfast included while following the old Ischler Bahn railway path to Salzburg. Check out Hangar 7's Flying Bulls and Hellbrunn's trick fountains.

Cycle through Austria's Salzkammergut region and check out St. Wolfgang's village streets plus the UNESCO-listed prehistoric pile dwellings at Mondsee. You'll stay overnight in Bad Ischl, where Franz Joseph spent his summers, then see Gmunden's Orth castle sitting on Traunsee.