A deep, but not too narrow gorge

It is always nice to hike through the Kundler Klamm. From the entrance to the end, ab beautiful canyon, without being to claustrophobic. The way is very wide, originally built as a driving way for animal pulled carts around 1912. At it's time, it was the easiest way to get from Kundl in the Inn Valley into the Wildschönau. So, enough jhistory lesson, to the tour itself.

The Entrance - Heading over a wooden bridge.

It all starts on a parking loot, than over a wooden bridge directly into the gorge. Don't hurry over it, just take some time - well if you want to run through the ravine, do as you please - and take a look to the left, and maybe another one to the right. Afterwards head in deeper.

View from the bridge at the entrance

After a while you'll pass by a restaurant "Gasthof Klamm", if you are already hungry and tired stay there, the food is excellent. If not, head in deeper. The gorge still narrows up, the river continiously roars a few metres beneath you and if you look up: Rocks, nothing but rocks and a small stripe of blue sky. If the weather is fine, at some points just breathtaking and nothing else. And it makes you feel realy small. Somehow like an ant looking up to the world.

The view up inside the canyon, maybe at it's narrowest place

Well so head on, enjoy a view from time to time, and you'll see, at the end the about 3 kilometres way lying behind you sure haven't felt that long. Sometimes I found myself asking: Okay, why does this have to end so fast. Not that going on is boring, the gorge opens up in a beautiful valley with mountains in viewsight, a beautiful river and some more restaurants, resting places and at a certain point a village will show up, put for me, i like canyons. Heading through them always leaves a deep impression on me and it always amazes me to see what water and time can built up, or in this case, hollow out of pure rock.

The valley after the canyon opened up

Ah, one last thing, I think i forgot to mention how the river is called: At our entrance point it is the Kundler Ache, at the exit point the Wildschönauer Ache.