Jungfrau Bernese Oberland

Sorry I haven't shared the rest of my trip with you! I have been home for almost a week now and have had a lot to do. When I got into Germany I didn't have Internet access at my hotel and finding free WiFi was difficult. The fact that I didn't post a new blog had nothing to do with the Oktoberfest festivities at all :) The last part of my trip, …

Today was the longest driving day on our trip. We left Cinque Terre (Italy) around 9:30 and finally got to Grindelwald (Switzerland) around 7:30 pm. A traffic accident just outside of La Spezia (on our way towards Parma) put traffic to a complete halt. Cars & trucks were parked, engines off and people sitting outside chatting. Fortunately we …

Oh, where to begin....This trip was, by far, the most enjoyable experience we have had during our time in Europe. When I was researching places to ski last winter, I ran across this car-free village in Switzerland called Murren. Unfortunately, it was all booked up, plus skiing in Switzerland was a little out of our price range, so we ended up going …

As a day excursion, we went to Grindelwald for a hike. I'm not quite sure why we decided to do this; everyday we are on our feet walking nearly everywhere we go. With the added weight from our packs, our feet have gotten really sore and have even gotten blisters. But hiking is the thing to do in Grindelwald and we love to hike so we had to check it …

So I have successfully survived my perilous journey into the heart of the Swiss Alps.


Switzerland is absolutely beautiful, they have multiple national languages and the area that I was in was full of tourists and so the locals usually spoke German, French, English, or Italian. Interlaken is about three hours north of the Italian …

We headed into the Swiss Alps today. It was a litte unexpected that we would have a day in the cold and snow - and as you can see from the photos it meant that we weren't exactly worried about what we were wearing - rather just throwing on anything to keep warm!

We headed off to Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe. Which is essentially the …

This being the Jungfrau Marathon season, we did not get bookings in Interlaken. We were staying in a small village close to Interlaken called Winderswill. There was a hotel on the top of a beautiful hill. The best part about our stay was that literally we were admist wilderness and nature. The view from our hotel was breath taking. We started our …

I had just heard and watched in Indian movies about Switzerland, but the idea to visit their had no connection to my love for Indian Cinema whatsoever! It was my love for nature, to see Mother Earth in its utmost purity...and I was right..Switzerland is well kept and beautiful part of the world. The days I spend are the most Beautiful days of my …

Just as I thought I couldn't see anything prettier than driving into Switzerland we get to the Swiss Alps. We stayed in our very own Swiss Chalet surrounded by waterfalls, rivers, and situated under the amazing Jungfrau Mountain. We quickly dropped our bags off in our rooms then all ran around outside admiring the beauty. We kicked footys …

Another train ride to another mountain. Such would become
the basic pattern of the trip. This time the chosen mountain was the most famed
in Switzerland. The Jungfrau, top of Europe, 3454 metres above sea level, 4158m
high, and so on. And not as cold as I thought it would be, then again the train
didn't take us all the way to the …

... Efficiency Personified So we headed, bags on back, to Bern train station where we set about getting tickets to the Jungfrau region of the Bernese Oberland, an area of spectacular natural alpine beauty in the south of the country. This, to me, was what ...

... and were taken to a club across the street from his restaurant. And here's a piece of advice on clubbing in Geneva (and Switzerland in general): only do it if you have a really strong dislike for your money. The only entertainment we got (for a Friday ...

... . The greenest countryside is broken only by small villages dotting the valley floor and on the ridges, and the imposing snow capped Jungfrau, Shilthorn and Eiger mountains tower high up above... oh bugger it, just look at the photos, you get the idea. ...

... arrives... I am excited! On this train we met another Ausie couple and these 2 older American woman who are doing Amsterdam and Switzerland for a womans week away! haha good on em! This train entered a hole in the swiss alp Eiger. All of a sudden the ...

... #19: If you are traveling with a child fifteen years or younger, the very first thing you should do upon your arrival in Switzerland is purchase a Junior Travel Card for 20 Swiss francs (AUD $22). This allows your child to travel free of charge on any ...

... could hear the roar of the water plummeting down into the mountain. 20 000 litres of water per second,   from the Jungfrau, Eiger and Monch, runs through these falls, amazing..   Another 45 minutes took us to our final destination, ...

... in the next valley over. We put the battery on to charge and went shopping for some lunch. Everyone is right - the prices in Switzerland are horrendously expensive. Milk is nearly $3 per litre, meat is at least $22 a kilo and even Swiss chocolate is more ...

... to prepare us for the sheer size and magnificence of them. We stayed in a small tourist town at the base of the Jungfrau: Europe's tallest mountain (just over 4000m). Interlaken is the name of this insanely pretty town and as the name suggests, it is ...

... a boat on the Brienz lake from Interlaken to visit the Ballenberg museum, a living history museum with houses and traditional ways of Switzerland. The boat trip was beautiful and the water was a gorgeous aqua blue colour , the trip takes around 1 hr 10. ...

... which is the highest train station in Europe from which you can see into neighbouring countries or a cheaper option with views of Switzerland and skiers etc. At this stage, we were planning to do Jungfrau tomorrow, so the plan was to do the smaller ...