Zermatt, Switzerland Travel Blogs

Délire émotif intense
Aug 5, 2007

... 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, des vaches ...

Chouette la chuisse!
Aug 4, 2007

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 ...

WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT LAST TIME
Apr 10, 2006

... 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 a ...

Attempting to Not Die While Skiing
Feb 16, 2009 (15 photos)

... 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 ...

Zermatt
Jan 28, 2006 (18 photos)

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The Matterhorn and Zermatt
Aug 1, 2005 (6 photos)

... 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 ...

How many touristy things can YOU do in one day???
Aug 17, 2007 (4 photos)

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The majestic, mostly cloud covered Matterhorn!
Jul 31, 2005

* 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 extremely ...

Zermatt
Apr 29, 2008 (23 photos)

...  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
Jun 24, 2008

... 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 another ...

Greetings from the Swiss Alps
Jul 12, 2009 (5 photos)

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...
Aug 12, 2009

... 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 ...

Take It All In...
Aug 11, 2009

... ; 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!
May 31, 2009 (23 photos)

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
Oct 2, 2008 (6 photos)

 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 had ...

We conquer the Matterhorn!
Jun 30, 2009 (7 photos)

... 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 down ...

Fotoalbum Zermatt
Oct 30, 2002 (26 photos)

Ein paar Bilder sollen ja schliesslich mehr als tausend Worte sagen..!

Switzerland!
Aug 21, 2008 (6 photos)

Wonderful Drive from Burgundy region of France, through the Alps to Zermatt, Switzerland.

Good Morning Miss Matterhorn
Dec 12, 2007

... 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 Australia.& ...

Where is the Matterhorn
Dec 11, 2007

... 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 at ...

Zermatt-Munich
Jul 13, 2009

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 ...

The 3 M's - Mountain goats, Maccas and Matterhorn
Sep 10, 2009 (33 photos)

... 8211; We got up early to say goodbye to our group before departing for the train station to go to Zermatt, our first stop in Switzerland! I was fortunately feeling a little bit better but still skipped brekky. Apparently Sarah had a similar experience the ...

Wildflowers, waterfalls and the mighty Matterhorn!
Apr 14, 2007 (35 photos)

... 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 ...

Steep Train To Zermatt
Aug 10, 2009

... afraid I may miss some of the stories.... He offered to be our tour guide for the two days while we were there... We arrived to Zermatt and the kids were amazed by the elctric small taxis. I did not tell them that it was a no car town.  I wanted them ...

OUR CAR'S GOING FOR A TRAIN RIDE!
May 26, 2009 (12 photos)

... very good meal and lots to eat! We took hot water bottles to bed with us, it wasn't too cold inside. Traffic lights in Switzerland and Germany are before the intersection, not after it as in Canada and the US.   This makes it impossible to creep ...

Zermatt
May 2, 2005

... checked into the hostel and we went for dinner and a couple drinks. i had a good time hiking again and walking around zermatt enjoying the beautiful city. the weather was gorgeous while I was there and I managed to get sunburnt. whoops. anyways, i didnt ...

Swiss Alps
Aug 4, 2008 (3 photos)

A stunning 2.5 hour journey past Lake Geneva and up to the mountains and we arrived in Zermatt, THE typical Swiss Alpine town that the famous Matterhorn watches over. We spent the last 2 days here enjoying the slightly cooler mountain air and admiring the ...

Nice, Switzerland and Twickenham
Nov 26, 2006 (14 photos)

... a while since our last travelpod and a lot of things have happened, the 3 things worth telling are: We went to Switzerland Jeanette and I took Candice, Leanne, Rowan, MaryAnne and Richard for 3 days early season skiing in Zermatt. Zermatt is a famous ...

I guess all of you have been waiting for ...
Feb 18, 2001 (3 photos)

... to Texas on my last break, decided to do something more fun. No offense to any of you. I have always heard nice things about Zermatt, so we packed up and made the 5 hour drive to the small town in the middle of the mountains. Let me tell you the drive ...