Gong - Leutascher Geisterklamm - Leutasch, Austria - Musical Instruments on Waymarking.com

In the Olympic region Seefeld, in the little village of Leutasch, you can visit a very impressive gorge. The parking space and the gate to the legendary gorge are located in the village of Schanz, close to the German border. This is also where the walk across the world of ghosts and elfs starts…

It’s an eerie place and a world of water and stone: in the Leutaschklamm gorge, a ghost is up to mischief. This is where it lives together with gorge goblins and water dwarfs. What is so particular in the 75 m deep gorge is its modern steel footbridge, as normally wooden footpaths and bridges are installed in canyons. In summer months the steel footbridge leads you the way high above the Leutascher Acher river and along the rock face.

The Leutaschklamm gorge can be explored on two different paths. The 3 km long Klammgeistweg path starts at the parking lot and leads into the gorge to a panorama bridge, where you return on a forest road. Along your walk the ghost of the gorge will brake secrets about his reign (approx. 1.5 hours).

The goblin path, however, takes you from the Klamm kiosk in Mittenwald into the Leutaschklamm gorge and meets the Klammgeistweg path at the panorama bridge. On this path goblins inform you about glaciers, stones and much more (approx. 1 hour).

A gong is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet. The gong traces its roots back to the Bronze Age around 3500 BC. The term 'gong' traces its origins in Java and scientific and archaeological research has established that Burma, China, Java and Annam were the four main gong manufacturing centres of the ancient world. The gong later founds its way into the Western World in the 18th century when it was also used in the percussion section of a Western-style symphony orchestra. Bronze gongs were widely used in ancient Greece and Rome, for instance in the famous Oracle of Dodona.

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