The variety of possibilities for holiday enjoyment in Austria is almost unlimited. And the climate is diverse too with lots of springtime flowers, plenty of sun in summer and autumn and snow in winter. And Austria, in spite of its small size, has incredible topographical variety. In the East, there is the flat steppe landscape of the Pannonian lowlands, in the West, the highland regions and in between, woods, forests and hilly countryside, wetlands and lake-plateaus and the Mediterraneanlike landscape types in the South.