--- title: Travel reports on the Danube Trail url: "https://www.donauregion.at/en/hiking-at-the-donausteig/artikel/detail/1076/danube-trail-travelogues.html" description: Several journalists have already travelled along the Donausteig trail between Passau and St. Nikola and summarised their experiences in an article. date: 2014-08-12 modified: 2026-03-05 --- # Travel reports on the Danube Trail Travelogues =========== **The Donausteig trail attracts numerous people from near and far to the Bavarian-Upper Austrian Danube region.** **You can read all the experience reports here, which will only make you want to go hiking on the Donausteig trail even more.** © Open copyright © Donausteig - View Penzenstein © WGD Donau Oberösterreich Tourismus GmbH-Hochhauser Close copyright [ ![Hiking group at the Penzenstein](https://www.donauregion.at/fileadmin/_processed_/4/a/csm_Donausteig_Ausblick_Penzenstein_2s_WGD_Donau_Ober%C3%B6sterreich_Tourismus_GmbH-Hochhauser_98eeb6a370.jpg "Donausteig - View Penzenstein © WGD Donau Oberösterreich Tourismus GmbH-Hochhauser") ](https://www.donauregion.at/fileadmin//user_upload/danube/Rebrush_2017/Donausteig/Donausteig_Ausblick_Penzenstein_2s_WGD_Donau_Oberösterreich_Tourismus_GmbH-Hochhauser.jpg "Donausteig - View Penzenstein © WGD Donau Oberösterreich Tourismus GmbH-Hochhauser") - **Claudia Jörg-Brosche** The travel journalist visited the still untouched Donausteig trail at the beginning of July 2010. [Article ‘Devil's Stone and Heavenly Delight’](https://www.donauregion.at/wandern-am-donausteig/artikel/detail/907/joerg-brosche-teufels-stein-und-himmlischer-genuss.html "Link öffnet sich in neuem Fenster") - **Manuel Andrack** The travel journalist, also known from the Harald Schmidt Show, visited the Donausteig in April 2011. [Article ‘Donausteig – great for hiking!’](https://www.donauregion.at/wandern-am-donausteig/artikel/detail/908/manuel-andrack-donausteig-wanderbar.html "Link öffnet sich in neuem Fenster") - **Oliver Jagosch** The freelance journalist from Linz hiked along the Donausteig trail from Passau to Grein for eight days and reported on his journey via blog, Facebook and Twitter. [To the hiking reports](https://www.donauregion.at/wandern-am-donausteig/artikel/detail/909/oliver-jagosch-unterwegs-am-donausteig.html "Link öffnet sich in neuem Fenster") - **ORF Donausteig Challenge** The unique ORF Donausteig Challenge took place in 2011. Eight participants took on the challenge of covering 365 kilometres and 20,000 metres of elevation gain in just 12 days… [To the experience reports](https://www.donauregion.at/wandern-am-donausteig/artikel/detail/910/orf-donausteig-challenge-2011.html "Link öffnet sich in neuem Fenster") ### Contact & Service **Danube Upper Austria** WGD Donau Oberösterreich Tourismus GmbH, Tourismusverband Donauregion Oberösterreich Lindengasse 9 4040 Linz Phone [+43 732 7277-888](tel:+437327277888) Fax machine +43 732 7277-804 E-Mail Web [www.donauregion.at/en](https://www.donauregion.at/en)