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Hahax its a brand new day today!! So today I will continue on my Switzerland trip day 3 to 4..
So if you missed the previous two days, then you would have to DIVE (Scroll down) deep down the page to search for it...cause it can't float... Hahax..Thats history so now is the start of new things..STARTCoach means Bus thats taking us around.
Day Three:::::.... Staying in Switzerland, Interlaken. Taking the Jungfrau Railway up to the Jungfraujoch Mountainous region.
So today woke up very early and its been raining since early morning and I guess the ride up the mountain will be a wet and exciting one.... Cause Rain means-------> Snow!!
So without further a do, so we are now travelling up the mountain and having lunch there.. Its a very wonderful experience eating at about 3454m in height.. While the weather outside is Blizzard!! The snow is like lashing against the thick glass windows and filling up the outdoor stairs with waist-height snow, so sadly, we cannot go to the outdoor area of the Jungfraujoch region of the mountain... Pity... But at least we are safe!!
The view outside our window makes us look small... Especially the majestic mountains that rose around us..
Misty and mysterious, cool place to live in!!
The many hillside houses, typical Swiss house pattern..
Reached a station called Wengen at 1274m. This is like I guess half an hour already to reach there..
The map for the place we are heading for...Jungfraujoch
So we are off again!!
Fog coming down the mountains..
Huge fog...
Spot the white spots on the ground? Its beggining to snow!! As we get higher...
there's more snow and more snow...
and more jagged mountains...more mountains...
and more mountains.
Thicker snow as we get higher..
and you can see heavy snow falling now. Enlarge to see.
Another station in sight.
Seems like Siberian huskies!! Interesting to see them high on a mountain..
Reached the Jungfraujoch at last and there was blizzard outside now.. See the snow piled on the glass windows.. Huge winds..
We reached!! 3571metres hahax!!
The glacier-tunnel 15m below Jungfraujoch. There's interesting sculpture in these cold tunnels..
Bear sculpture...
beautiful egg like sculpture...
flying eagle sculpture..
eskimos sculpture...
one hand longer than the other sculpture...Hahax
Lights effect.
Ice made banner... Nice!
Having lunch at a restaurant on Jungfraujoch..
After having lunch, we head down the mountain once again but on a different track, so the photos below will also be different... Whats good is that the snow gradually gets down to the foot of the mountains where our hotels were...
Outside the train we're taking... Thick snow where we played snow ball fight... Small fight only..
Thats a hotel. Good high view..
Thick coated with snow..
Winter-Wonderland!
Steep cliffs..
Live above the clouds!! Wonderful...
See isn't it magical and like so cool and mysterious... I love it!! Ou ou!!
Lightly patched with snow but very cold..
Houses off a cliffs and valleys, Perfect!!
Is the cloud just beside us??!!
I wonder whats its like living among the clouds? Should be wet....Hahax..
Ok as time passes fast while you're having fun, so after this whole day trip up and down the mountain, we went to have dinner and yup, its a very nice day and I simply enjoyed as I get to play snowball fight with my sister in mid-mountain...
Day Four:::::.... Leaving Interlaken and going to Lake Geneva in the Valais Region and then going to Zermatt, where we would take the cable car to see Matterhorn, Switzerland's iconic mountain.
So before we leave the Interlaken Region, I managed to take a few early morning shots of the snow that landed during dawn but ended as soon as the sun rose...sadly.. But other places along the road were thickly coated with a fresh coat of snow..
Ok as I said previously, it really started to snow next morning and it covered the streets with a thin coat of white... Which was very very beautiful. This was taken like five in the morning when I got out of the hotel to have a snap...
Snow of different shapes..
Snow...
and snow!!
Ice-coated sign board....Cold...
Thinly coated cars and the never-ending continuous flow of snow...
Ok this last picture is actually a dawn of a new day so next we took the coach and went to another part of Switzerland, in the Valais Region near Lake Geneva which I think if I did not heard wrongly, is also shared by France on the other far end of the lake.
So next we are visiting a castle, which is beside the Lake Geneva nice one.. You will see it for yourself. Very cold and also raining too.. By the way the castle below is called Chateau Chillon.
So as you can see this is the castle, once lavishing in the past, but ever since its robbed of all valuables, its just an empty shell now..
Beside the castle, clear waters of Lake Geneva.
Front view of it.
This highway beside the castle seems like it came from the clouds!! Hahax nice!!
Lake Geneva on a dull and rainy day... I guess thats ducks on the lake.. Enlarge to see. Strong ducks they are..
Farewell castle...
So now leaving Lake Geneva, we are heading once again to another mountainous region in the border of Italy and Switzerland to visit the car-less village of Zermatt and the nearby, famous icon for Toblerone, Matterhorn.
Acknowledgments: http://larryfire.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/toblerone_logo.jpg
http://www.dlr.de/en/Portaldata/1/Resources/portal_news/NewsArchiv2005/matterhorn_pan_380h.jpg
So on our way there, we went through a lot of mountainous region which gave us breathtaking photo-shots.
Steep...
and Cloudy...
Very very cold!!
Houses in the mountainous Zermatt region.
Enormous trees rose as we took the train up to Zermatt.
Winter white trees.. Nice!
Yey reached Zermatt.. Its like an urban area in a all physical environment, weird combination.
Hahax this is where we collected the free spoons if you remember. There's also one here so up high a mountain.
Santa Claus??
Thickly-coated roofs, gotta be heavy...
Peaceful and relaxing... No wonder it attracts.
Bad news again... As there's huge snow in the place near Matterhorn, so we cannot board the cable car to the place.. Sadlt therefore we did not take any photos of it but it roughly looks like this..
Acknowledgments: http://www.dlr.de/en/Portaldata/1/Resources/portal_news/NewsArchiv2005/matterhorn_pan_380h.jpg
So instead of going to Matterhorn, we stayed in Zermatt and thats where I bought my black pencil box that I used in school now. So after the stay in Zermatt, we took the train back to where the coach was left.. But then another bad news surfaced once again... The passing of border through a mountain to Italy was also suffered by the heavy snow, causing it to be closed for three days!! So we are stucked in Switzerland as our final destination before night fals is Italy. But after an hour or two, our tour guide organised a plan for us to reach Italy..
As , if we want to go to another gate to pass through to Italy, it would take us more than ten hours of distance. So the tour guide decided that we take the coach to the nearby train station and that we take the train to Italy, while the coach will take another gate which is ten hours away to get to Italy.
No choice, so we took some of our belongings that we would need for a night stay in our hotel in Italy and took it with us on the train ride to Italy, while the coach would take the rest of our luggage to Italy.
Next day the coach arrived in the afternoon and we retrieve our luggage and continue our tour in Italy!!
Route back to civilization... to take the train to Italy.
So this is our hotel in Italy, called The Regina Palace.
Regina Palace is a hotel in its 1ooth Aniversary on the day we stayed in this hotel. Its decoration is very oldern and royal. Facilites are also very good, even furniture in rooms are very oldern and like the traditional rich European houses. Exquisite..
Beautiful room lights.
Collection of utensils from the past to present.
Photo took from the balcony of our room, I like the fallen-leaves tree shining brightly behind under the sun.
So day four has ended and six more days to go, means three more long post. Hope you won't get bored out too fast.. Tell me if its too long.. I will cut it shorter..
Bye!!END. Labels: Cooling two days..
