Charming Houses at Hallstatt Village
Looking at the location of Hallstatt, you can see how it can be very isolated. There are mountains surrounding the area and it would have been difficult to get here to begin with. However, because of the presence of natural salt in the mountains, Hallstatt became a very important village notwithstanding its location. Then add the incredible natural beauty of the area and you got a winner. The village itself is tiny and can be traversed in twenty minutes from one end to the other. There are a lot of old structures here which seem to date from decades or centuries before. It is this feeling of being stuck in time that help it get added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites, oh, and of course, the salt in the mountains also helped.
Shops Along the Main Street of Hallstatt Village
The village is a one street village and most of the structures line this street. There would be parts of the street which would open to view the Hallstatter See which is the lake where the village was built along. It is obviously not lost to the villagers how beautiful the scenery here is most of them would have a view of the surrounding area. I think it would be very nice to wake up in the morning to this kind of scenery. Unfortunately, for the locals, they now have to share this with a lot of tourists. Granted, most of the tourists who come here are only on day trips from Salzburg, and fortunately, not a lot of them stay over, or there would have been a huge problem with accommodation. Imagine how there would be more tourists here than actual residents. If I am already annoyed with the huge number of people here, how much would the locals.
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