The Werfen Ice Caves and Salsburg

Today we piled onto the bus we call the shit bus and headed to Austria to take in the stunning beauty of the Austrian Alps and the largest ice caves in the world.

After a white-knuckle ride up the mountain to the ice caves we trecked another several hundred metres up to the entrance of the caves. It was a hot day and we were looking forward to some relief in the caves.

Shane had done this tour before and warned us that it was cold in there. When they opened the entrance door and an icey, 80 km\hr wind blasted us, we knew he was right.

The caves are AMAZING - 42 km deep. we trecked in 1 km. Harold our guide (Sherpa) was happy that with 200 Australians in the cave at once, we must have had the world record for Aussies in an ice cave.

After the ice caves, we drove to Salsburg in time for the Netherlands v Ivory Coast game. The world cup has served up some great games so far and this one was no exception.

After this, it was back on the shit bus and home through a massive afternoon storm. Luckily, when we got back to the tent, the contents were dry.

The FFA travel staff have been working their socks off to make sure we are having the time of our lives - they were working into the night ensuring tents were zipped up and everything stayed dry.

It was a beer and sausage free day for us today.