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water.<br />
Sheer pleasure<br />
It feels good to bathe in really pure drinking water<br />
The clear Austrian<br />
lakes lend themselves<br />
to diving<br />
Nothing is nicer on a hot summer’s<br />
day than taking a cooling dip. Exactly<br />
where to take the plunge is no easy decision,<br />
so varied is the choice of Austrian<br />
bathing lakes. Anyone who likes to<br />
combine cool bathing with the hot scene<br />
will love a holiday by the Wörther See.<br />
Summer festivals such as the “Fête<br />
blanche” attract a young crowd every<br />
year to the banks of the largest lake in<br />
Carinthia. Its two neighbours, the Ossiacher<br />
See and the Millstätter See, are in<br />
fact almost as large, but provide more<br />
peace and quiet – ideal for holiday-<br />
makers for whom life already provides<br />
enough excitement. All 42 Carinthian<br />
bathing lakes are of proven drinkingwater<br />
quality, as is the Weissensee (1,000<br />
m), which remains deliciously refreshing,<br />
even in summer.<br />
For anyone who does not find the<br />
water temperature sufficiently like the<br />
Caribbean, the family-friendly Klopeiner<br />
See in Carinthia or the Mondsee in Upper<br />
Austria may be close to the heart. Whilst<br />
the bathing lakes score above all with<br />
their beneficial combination of recuperation<br />
and entertainment, mountain waters<br />
such as Tirol’s Achensee are more of an<br />
acquired taste: glacier water straight from<br />
the spring reaches 19° max – so you are<br />
often alone in the water.<br />
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