Dobratsch Loop - The trail around the nature park - Stage 02

Reinhold Messner

If even Reinhold Messner, the most famous mountaineer in the world, describes the circumnavigation of a fascinating mountain as probably the most intense hiking experience, then we should calmly follow his recommendation.

The short long-distance hiking trail in southern Austria offers everything that a mountain circumnavigation promises in this sense. The five stages pass through times of former burial mounds, drainage tunnels, and chapels, connect places of famous painting art and former monastic life, traverse bizarre rockslide landscapes, and lead along old Roman roads. At the intersection of three cultures, the Dobratsch Loop also gains an unprecedented forward-looking character with its cross-border aspect.