Zermatt
Travel Blogs from Zermatt, Switzerland
Délire émotif intense
... à Jerry pour une piste de hiking. 4 jours plus tard je suis encore en état de choc par les paysages magnifiques de Zermatt! 5 heures de pur plaisir! Des montagnes enneigées, des montagnes feuillues, des lacs, des chutes, des rivières, des moutons, ...
WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT LAST TIME
... pasta that sixty-seven-year-old Mario has ever cooked, I couldn't get a ride, so I walked the remaining six miles to Switzerland. I camped there, at 2700 feet altitude. I watched up from my cold tent, past the four Alp mountains that walled me in like ...
Chouette la chuisse!
12 heures de voyagement plus tard il est maintenant a Zermatt en Suisse! Premiere impression: maudit qui fait frette! haha! J'aime ca! Hier a Rome j'ai eu de la misere a dormir tellement il faisait chaud et maintenant il fait 13 degres! J'ai vu quelques ...
Attempting to Not Die While Skiing
... me to include more information about school, classes, etc. in my blogs, it's not going to happen for the rest of my time in Switzerland. My classes are too terrible to even mention, and it only makes me mad thinking about it ... so, enjoy the much more ...
Matted.
... where we left bigwig trustily with some crazy taxi driver. The driver then took us in a beaten up van up the pass to Zermatt, the famous town where the Matterhorn mountain stands. The driver was insane, taking to the narrow roads like a bezerker. Jena, ...
The Matterhorn and Zermatt
... its good) for the clean air and green valleys of Swittzerland. My first stop was a little town just over the border called Zermatt, home of 3 attractions.. The Matterhorn and Sandrine and Julia (whom I met in Barcelona) :) On the train up, (up being ...
Gornergrat - The Train Up the Alps
... walked down to the next station i was knackered so i decide not to walk any further and got on the train back down to Zermatt. Getting on the train itself was an adventure as it stopped on the other side of the track and we crossed to get on. A ...
The majestic, mostly cloud covered Matterhorn!
* Zermatt is not the most exciting or cheapest town in Switzerland but it does have one thing going for it and that's the majestic Matterhorn (the most famous peak in the Alps, although not the highest). The train ride from Gryon to Zermatt was ...
Zermatt
... with water just cascading down the side of huge rock faces into the rivers at the bottom. Excellent. When I got to Zermatt (1620m above sea level) the hostel was quite easy to find and was very nice, modern and clean, but quite different ...
Typical swiss village- at it's finnest
... get over Paris.. haha It wasn't easy to get here from Lausanne, and took the whole afternoon. Did I mention how hot it is in Switzerland? And yesterday was no exception, except it felt worse because of my pack. After I got off the train in Visp, I took ...
Greetings from the Swiss Alps
We took the early train to Milan then connected to the train headed for Visp, Switzerland. The train ride from Visp to Zermatt was indescribably beautiful. The train was winding through dark tunnels, across bridges spanning swift rivers fed by high ...
Leave Zermatt Train Home...
... walking stick to use when I have my foot surgery. So, we went back and I got one too with my first name and Zermatt 2009 on it. Caught special train to take us down mountain. This train instead of huge windows, had windows that opened and went ...
Matterhorn and an upgrade
... there. I saw one for a young Australian of 20 who died climbing. The Matterhorn museum was also fascinating with information on how Zermatt came to be, the first summit of the Matterhorn where 4 people died and also recreation of houses etc in the area. ...
Take It All In...
... ; We find out that they offer to engrave it for free, even better so no switching when one breaks........... We go to the Zermatt museum. German taught us of this. Would never have found it. It is exemplary, tells of the first climbers, ...
Sunshine on the mountain!
Sunday, May 31st trip from Zermatt to Geneva Around 5 am the sun started to rise and so did we. I was like a kid on Christmas morning, hardly being able to sleep waiting to see what Santa brought - except this time the big present was a view of the ...
UP UP UP
How wonderful is Switzerland. I am very sad to be leaving tomorrow. I don't want to sleep. I don't want to wast a single second of the time I have left here!!! While in Zermatt we have reached 4000 meters above sea level, played in the snow and ...
We conquer the Matterhorn!
... had stunning views of the Matterhorn (by then cloud covered) and the surrounding mountains, including Monte Rosa, the highest peak in Switzerland. (That is also the name of the hotel where Whymper started his ill-fated journey). We took the train back ...
Good Morning Miss Matterhorn
... We arrived at St Moritz with only a few hours stay before we had to board our overnight train to Salzberg, Austria. Switzerland was wonderful with it snowing most the time, it was an experience we will never forget and never experience in ...
Where is the Matterhorn
... snowing for a while here and everything is snow covered. The roads, the parks, the buildings, the trees everything. Zermatt can only be reached by rail and there are no cars here only small electrical powered vehicles. We arrived ...
Picture perfect
... , perhaps it was the thin mountain air affecting my brain or perhaps it was simply the reassuring fact that I was in Switzerland and nothing would dare go wrong with the fine Swiss machinery. My first real glimpse of the Matterhorn ...
Zermatt-Munich
We took the equally gorgeous train ride back to Visp from Zermatt. It was pleasant to see the farmers out in the hills early in the morning, with the tips of impressive peaks looming overhead. We barely caught our connection from Visp to Zurich. This was ...
trafalaga tour
... Oberalp Pass at 2,0033 metersin alttude We tzravelled along a beautiful route passing alpinelakes and glaciersenroute to the unique resort of Zermatt, dominated by the Matterhorne The day is wet so no trip to the top today Our hotel is very ...
Wildflowers, waterfalls and the mighty Matterhorn!
... following a beautiful path that took me past field after field of wildflowers and waterfalls. Spring had finally spring in Switzerland and l couldn't resist the beckoning fields anymore. I climbed over the boundary fence and found a perfect spot amongst ...


