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Interlaken Slideshow
Interlaken
Travel Blogs from Interlaken, Switzerland
Swiss Chocolate here I come!
30th. We had another early start to make our way to Switzerland. On the way there, aiming for Interlaken, we were told important historical facts about the country like how the idea of the Toblerone chocolate bar came from. The creator took the idea ...
Up, up, up, into the Bernese Oberland
... I've seen so far. I just got a reservation at a place in Venice, so I'm all set to head there tomorrow. Switzerland has been a truly wonderful place to visit. It's so clean here, everyone is so nice (and speaks English, in addition to ...
Again, it was on the way!
Regained some confidence in hitching - I reached Interlaken without too much difficulty, though it took quite a long time to cover the 150km, and I didn't turn up until quite late in the evening. Fortunately, I was dropped right at an idyllic coampsite on ...
Don't Tell Paul's Dad
... sandwiched between two pristine glacier lakes (Lake Brienz and Lake Thun) in the Jungfrau region, one of the most beautiful areas in Switzerland. The area is known for its hiking trails and scenic train rides up the mountain. We'll have to take the ...
Pinch me please
... I can't lie, so just don't read below if you don't want to be feel like never speaking to me again:) * Yup, I'm still in Switzerland. Just having an awesome time. My typical day is waking up at 7 or 8 and eating breakfast, which for some reason now ...
The Sweetness of Being Neutral
... of our journey (days 57/58) in the centre of 'central' Europe in the middle of the most neutral state on the globe, Switzerland. More importantly the Berner Oberland which gave us the best scenery of the trip to date. Our first night was spent in ...
Interlaken!
The weather in Interlaken was the worst we've encountered thus far. It poured on Friday and there was a snowstorm on Saturday. That combined with the fact that the ski season doesn't officially open until December made our chances of ...
Toblerone Mountains and Cuckoo Clocks
... headed back to the hostel to pack our things for the long day ahead the next day. Travelling by train from Interlaken to Milan is probably the most beautiful and dramatically changing journey you can take through Europe. We travelled through a ...
Interlaken Rocks!
After 7 days of non-stop riding from Strasbourg, we arrived Bern, Switzerland. "Hey, it was't that difficult" I said as we pulled into the camping site in Bern. "I guess our legs got pretty strong" said Bryan, happily. Two days later, I had to get ...
Interlaken
... time has been spent walking around town and spending lots of money on food and entertainment. It is just really expensive here in Switzerland and when you start doing adventure sports, it just gets more expensive. It was so worth it though and like my ...
Interlaken, Switzerland
Switzerland is definitely the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. We arrived yesterday around noon and walked directly to our hostel and this place is huge and crazy. Its like a frat party all day long. Our hostel has a huge outside grill, cheap beer ...
Interlaken
We arrived at Interloken, Switzerland by train at 11:30AM and checked into the famous Balmers Hostal. It was a cool place full of young travelers. There was a huge courtyard with ping pong and life size ...
Interlaken
On July 20th I got out of bed at 7:30AM. For some reason the room was still spinning. I showered and layed out in the courtyard until noon. At 1:45PM Mike and I went rafting. It was a blast with cold white water continually ...
Picture Perfect Switzerland
DAY 5 Our trip to Switzerland started on DAY 5 of our tour and we set off from Euro Disney for a day of travelling on route to the Swiss Alps. When we arrived in the town of Interlaken Lindy and Johan approached two kind locals on the side of the street ...
A Most Scenic Train Ride
The train ride yesterday through Central Switzerland was phenomenal. As soon as we entered Switzerland, I could tell that we were there. Not just that the border guards came onboard to check passports (only the 2nd time I've had my ...
Skiing, snowboarding, sledging in the Swiss Alp
... bar (that's right an actual Tepee in the Swiss Alps) while waiting for the train back to Grindelwald Gund and then to Interlaken. Very tired, cold and exhausted from skiing, snowboarding and walking many times up the slope to go back down ...
The Amazing Alps
Hey, no time to write much. Internet is gold in switzerland, I will update more when it is ...
day 20
Italy leaves memories that we will both treasure till the next time we visit. Hopefully not that long away. This morning, was different to anyothermorning. I had to deliver our vehicle to the drop off point without the analogue GPS. I did many dry runs ...
What, no keg stands for you?
... night there but I walked right to the train station in the airport and they said I could leave in 20 min for a train to Interlaken Switzerland where I had decided I wanted to go. So I got the ticket. I walk to the train station and there are these three ...
Enjoying the Mountain Air
... getting the courage to run down that hill. After that, Peter did all the work. We floated in the clouds above Interlaken. Magnificent sight! We chitchatted, took some pictures, Peter did some tricks, and then we went in for the landing. The landing ...
I believe I can fly...
... there. On the west is one lake, the east another, and to the norht is Jungfrau, one of the tallest mountains in Switzerland. It was beautiful, the mountain was snow capped and gorgeous, and the lakes were a beautiful turquois color, I wanted to swim in ...
Welcome to the Cabaret
... if it hadn't. When we decided to go to Rome, we had no idea if we'd even be able to get a train from Rome to Switzerland, or how much would it be. Would it rival the ridiculous $130 reservation fee in Barcelona? Would the train be full and we'd have to ...
I heart Switzerland
... , and we just decided not to catch that train. We re-booked out little adventure for Friday morning, because I wasn't leaving Switzerland without this. So our day consisted of bike riding, opposed to our new friends at Balmers, Kevin and ...
Taking a Chance on the Jungfraujoch
... will be like, and that means it'll be spectacular!! So after a gorgeous ride, I arrived in Interlaken. It looked pretty cloudy, but I could see some mountains still, so I grabbed the train to Lauterbrunnen, the next leg of ...
A Weekend in the Mountains!
... up getting to do that! The bus left on Thursday night from the train station and then we drove through the night to Interlaken, Switzerland. The bus isn't the most comfortable to try to sleep in, but it was all right. At one point, ...
Arrival in Interlaken
The train took us northeast along the river to Interlaken. About 1/2 way into the trip the snow started to fall, and really fell hard. By the time we reached Interlaken it was coming down thick. We checked into our hotel, the biggest one ...
Gimmelwald
... have to get cut somewhere. So I'm on the train to a little town where there is a chapel I want to see just inside Switzerland, then Italy tomorrow for sure. Hated to say goodbye to the numerous waterfalls, the mountain peaks you couldn't see above you, ...
Interlaken (inner switzerland in the bernese alps)
Here we spent a nice afternoon biking, evening eating fondu, night interneting, and next day drinking café... beautiful place!... fyi for this place: stay at the Korean hostel (cheap, bike included, free internet, call from the trainstation phone for ...
Welcome to paradise on earth! i cannot even ...
... Frosh! I was glad to see Liesje (remember her from Brugge?). She decided to travel with me through Spain so we made Interlaken our meeting point. She brought along obnoxious American Luke whom she met in Köln. All three of us hung out that night with ...
Swiss national day in the rain!
1/8 Interlarken in the afternoon. We arrived in Switzerland on Swiss National Day, so there were even more Swiss flags around than usual. We found a great camping ground down next to the river, I wanted to go for a swim but after putting my hand in the ...