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Along the Bierstrasse Photo Gallery
Photographs by Brooks Walker

Photo: Loser-Alm restaurant, Altaussee, Austria

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rive up into the Alps from Altaussee, Austria, along the Loser panoramic road, and you can stop for a meal and mountain sightseeing at the Loser-Alm restaurant. "Both hikers and road trippers were enjoying the view and the sunshine on the patio," says photographer Brooks Walker, "although I'm always amused that people can fall asleep at great viewpoints like this."

Read more on this section of Germany in "Bavaria on Tap," in the September 2007 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

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