Azuad Razali: Austria (Vienna)

السلام عليكم, Ni iols nak cite satu lagi tempat yg patut uols melawat kalau ke Eropah, Sabtu malam kite org sapai dari Rome pukul 11.30 local time, mmg satu team dah penat gile.But nunka buat iols,ke esokan harinya seawal 6 pgi dah gigih bagun trus berangkat ke Hungary Main Train Station.Iols bersma kawan Hugary akan mulakan perjalanan ke Vienna (Austria) pegi pagi balik petang. Gigih tak!! , yelah bukan salau dapat pi. Ada peluang on sajo.

About Vienna
Is the capital of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city.and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre.Vienna lies in the east of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants, and this region is referred to as Twin City. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Getting There

Since we went to Vienna by train.we left from Budapest East railway station 7.10 am local time, and arrived around 10.10 am local time, travel took 3hrs to arrived wien west train station Vienna. http://www.mav-start.hu/english/index.php.The train ticket is HUF 8680= RM 127 for return. info :Special deal about the return train ticket: if you buy the return ticket between Budapest – Vienna, your two-way ticket is valid for 4 days. Plus on the first two (only 2!) days of your trip to Vienna, you can freely use the trams (streetcars), metros, buses free.Train tickets can be bought at any railway stations in Budapest: e.g. Nyugati Pu (on the Pest side – accessible easily by blue metro line), Deli pu (on the Buda side – accessible easily by red metro line) or at Keleti pu (on the Pest side – accessible easily by red metro line) , if you like to travel with bus and you can buy it here on the official site of thehttp://berletelin.volanbusz.hu/ticket/wrd/run/ticmain?lang=en

Public Transport

Main Vienna Public transports is Metro, Tram and Bus. Metro is a rapid transit (metro) system consisting of five lines. It is the backbone of one of the best performing public transport systems worldwide according to UITP (International Association of Public Transport) and tickets u may search http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/english/fares.html. Tram is the entire city is criscrossed by tramlines, whereby most go to and from the city center (like spokes on a wheel) and fewer go across town. Each tramline is powered by overhead electric cables, and has a number or letter designation. Most lines run from the early morning until after midnight, with special night trams also in operation on selected lines

(Metro Map)

(Vienna Metro)

(Vienna Tram)

Accommodation

Caused our trip is one day trip from morning until evening. so we don't really know the best location should be stay, but u may search by booking.com http://www.booking.com/ or Agoda http://www.agoda.com/. from there u may get ideas which or what hotel should be stay.

Places have been visited

Frankly speaking i don't really know about Vienna plus that time we arrived around 10 in the morning. The 1st place that we went is restaurant (breakfast time),time ini sejuk gile kat vienna. The sad think about our trip is we went to Vienna on Sunday, and all the mall , shops is closed. Suddenly my Hungarian said "what's wrong with this city ? all shops has been closed do we travel in alien country? hahhah). Moral of the story do not visit Vienna on Sunday.

So we just walked around no idea where to go, just took photo if we saw interesting places almost 20 minutes we walked and we found Vienna City Hall info : Is one of the most splendid amongst the numerous monumental buildings along Vienna's. City Hall was built in gothical style, with a tower similar to gothic cathedrals. The gothic era saw the growth of the cities and the emergence of an urban bourgeois

Then took pictures and just looked around like a stupid stranger. Don't know what is going on around and we walked around 15 minute and we found Vienna is where the two Houses of the Parliament of Austria conduct their sittings. The building is on the Ringstraße boulevard in the first district Innere Stadt, close by the Hofburg Palace and the Palace of Justice.

Then continued our journey until we found the Hofburg. info :Is a palace located in Vienna, Austria, that has housed some of the most powerful people in Austrian history, including the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire

Before we leaving back to Budapest we took picture infront of Republic Monument, info : In Vienna commemorates the establishment of the Republic of Austria on the12th November 1918 . It is located at the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring between the parliament building and the Palais Epstein -Grete Rehor before the park.The monument consists of three busts of the Social Democrats Jakob Reumann , Viktor Adler and Ferdinand Hanusch , each resting a pedestal.Behind it are three vertical rectangular granite blocks, which in turn lies on a fourth square horizontally. In these, the inscription "The memory of the establishment of the Republic on 12 November 1918. And we went to coffee shop before we go to train station.