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Interlaken Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Interlaken, Switzerland
Finally, in the Alps (or at Least Next to Them)
This is a top pick! ... was a bit of a disappointment for me when it turned out my friend was living in the non-Alps part of Switzerland. Luckily, he planned a weekend trip to Interlaken, which is a town between two lakes: Thuner See and Brienzer See. We're actually staying in a ...
Top of Europe
This is a top pick! ... as I've expected (many places have been so foreign, I had no idea what to expect), but go to Interlaken and you're in the Switzerland of your dreams. The fields are immaculately green, the houses are all wooden chalets with brightly colored flowers on ...
Time to Skydive over the Alps
This is a top pick! Trains in Switzerland are simply amazing. To glide through the countryside with snow capped mountains rising from massive blue lakes and lush green fields makes even a train bound for nowhere an absolute pleasure. Well guys look at this space tomorrow ...
Alpine Hiking
This is a top pick! ... for the best anyway, because the round-trip ride to the peak my friend wanted to visit was $90. (Have I complained about Switzerland being expensive yet?) Our next stop was the town of Grindelwald. Grindelwald turned out to be a fairly large resort town. ...
Canyoning in the Alps :o) - Bring it on!!
This is a top pick! ... on that night we walked around the town one last final night and bought some souvinere's. I bought a swiss army knife with "Interlaken 2005" engraved on it. Had Thai for dinner that night before retreating back to Funny Farm hostel. Hahaha i forgot to ...
Heart of swiss alps and top of europe! (Jungfrau)
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Lugano fifty minutes into our bus journey ...
This is a top pick! ... Jungfraujoch, but this was well outside our budget, plus, the trip can be done from Lucerne anyway. We couldn't leave Switzerland without having a Fondue, so we asked the staff at Backpackers for a recommendation of where to go. They suggested Pfistern ...
The Place I never wanted to leave....
This is a top pick! ... the original plan to stay only for two days, it was possible the dive maybe off for good. The hostel, Balmers, at Interlaken is absolutely brilliant. Its one of those places where people just can not leave and I can understand why. Just a brilliant ...
Chapter 56: In der Schweiz
This is a top pick! ... to Interlaken) was stunningly gorgeous. Snow-capped mountains, blue lakes, deep green forests... Switzerland was just as beautiful as I'd heard. When I got to Interlaken around 2, I followed the signs and maps to Balmer's Jugendherberge - a sprawling, ...
Finally, snowboarding in Switzerland
This is a top pick! I finally got to snowboard today in Switzerland. Let me tell you, you haven't really snowboarded until you ride the Switz mtn. This was vastly different from my Poland experience and the runs are huge here in Switzerland. You first take ...
Extract: ahhh noooo!!!! i said as if diving ...
This is a top pick! ... cut through towering Alpine mountains, crystal blue glacier lakes and rolling green fields, picturesque to say the least. Switzerland's little jewel... -- Balmer's Hostel Although a little reluctant after our stay in the student accommodations in ...
The Swiss Alps!
This is a top pick! ... or hotel/hostel. In a place so beautiful, you couldn't care less that you are mixed in with thousands of other tourists. Interlaken is Europe's original ski resort and has a long history of holiday makers coming to traverse the slopes. It is also home ...
Interlaken
This is a top pick! Interlakens setting is pretty hard to beat. Set between the lakes, Thun and Brienz and locked in with the huge young snow-capped peaks towering above. Our campsite was in prime position on the waters edge. The actual town itself was a complete tourist ...
Paris to Interlaken
... checked (All the other countries we have been in are part of the European Union, where people can travel freely. Switzerland, though, as a neutral country, will not join the EU because they feel it would betray their neutrality). Mom wanted ...
Jumping to my death in Switzerland
Friday a group of 7 of us departed for Interlaken, Switzerland. This is the extreme sport city in Switzerland. Our train took around 7 hours. We missed our 1 connection so we got some food in Basel, Switzerland. This was my 1st encounter with how ...
Swiss Alps
... an opened parachute and you run off of a cliff and just float around in the air. It is by far the best way to see Switzerland and the Alps. The rest of the trip consisted of eating at Hooters (I never knew they had such great food!), having ...
CANYON JUMPING!!!
I was so incredibly delirious and tired yesterday I could not write much.......but the beauty of Interlaken, and Switzerland overall is indescribable!! The majestic snow covered Swiss Alps surround us on all sides, and a crystal clear glacier ...
Skiing and Snowbarding in the Swiss Alps
... 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 ...
Switzerland
We arrived in Interlaken, Switzerland at 9.30 am and went to our hotel were we had a great breakfast while they made our rooms available. It was raining in Interlaken but we were informed that it was snowing up higher in the mountains. After ...
Multiple train connections...
... final destination, Interlaken. As we walked to our hostel, we were immediately amazed; it looks exactly like how we imagined Switzerland and we haven't even seen the mountains yet. We weren't exactly sure where the place was, but ...
Two ponchos
So yesterday after we got back from the rafting we showered and went downstairs to get some beers and cheese fondue. It was all delicious! Tipsy, we went to town and tried to find ice cream. Got that and it was awesome. Today we got up early to go ...
day 20 Part b & day 21 Part a
... GPS from going into binary meltdown at each train change has been a feat in its self. But all is good. We have arrived in Interlaken. It is about 4 degrees but it is not the bitter cold we have had in Como, Bologna and Rome. The sun is still above the ...
Spectacular Swiss Alpes
We went Hang Gliding........so much fun and great views too Top of Europe tomorrow. just below 12,000 feet. There goes our budget. It is expensive here, even if our dollar is 1.20 swiss franc. It is almost twice as expensive ...
Jungfrau - the top of Europe
... much quicker, about half an hour I think. From Klein Scheidegg, we go down via Wengen and Lauterbrunnen to Interlaken OST, and spend our last day in Switzerland browsing through the shops. We go to our favourite Co-op store for the last time to stock up ...
Freezing in Interlaken
... we would have made spectacles of ourselves. The rest of the ride is uneventful and the views from the train are very beautiful. Interlaken is a small town at the base of the Alps, and literally means between two lakes. And that's exactly what it is, a ...
A last minute trip to Europe
... . I was originally going to fly into Italy, but it did not work out, so I ended up flying to Zurich, Switzerland and taking the train to Interlaken.........From here I plan on visiting friends (who I met in my other travels) in Spain, France, Holland and ...
Towns in the middle of Mountains...
... close as it was moving large equipment out from the forest... man, does it create a lot of wind!! I later went back to Interlaken to do some thrill seeking, but Ill talk about that later. Lucerne: its my favorite Swiss town. It has beautiful hotels ...