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Zermatt Slideshow
Zermatt
Travel Blogs from Zermatt, Switzerland
Zermatt to Zurich
Got up at 6:30 and got to Zermatt at 10:15. Turns out our rail pass wasn't valid from Visp - Zermatt so we had to pay CHF100 roundtrip. Ah, well, the price of sun! The Matterhorn was really quite majestic. I could not resist ...
Yodeling in the Swiss Alps
... was just starting to lightly fall as I crossed the street to the train station. My stay in this part of Switzerland was amazing. The weather, aside from this morning, was pristine. No clouds and all blue skies while the sun ...
7 Trains, 4 Cable Cars, 2 Gondolas
... ; We only get CNN in english! We are ready to be home with family. We are so glad that we took the expedition to Zermatt and didn’t leave a lot of time for Geneva. It would have been cool to see the Red Cross Museum and the United Nations building, ...
Matterhorn Ho!
Today we took the rack railway to Gornergrat. Amazing mountain and glacier (and goat) views. We're at the top now, more than 10,000 feet elevation. Got our picture taken with these HUGE St. Bernard Dogs in front of the Matterhorn, so cute and cuddly! ...
ZZZ Zermatt
Montreux to Zermatt: - Will write more about Zermatt later tonight.; We are off to have a fondue cheese meal; it is expected to be -4 tonight. The countryside and high mountains are lovely and make me feel like yodelling, but I don't think Claire would ...
Zermatt
... to try and do some skiing but the costs were also prohibitive unless I had my own gear, which I obviously did not. With nothing left to do other than lose feeling in our faces from the cold we set off via train for Bern, the capital of ...
Abrindo 2010 a 4,000m de altura
... já mais segura, e então pude curtir o visual. Terminamos o dia em uma pizzaria caseira perto do hotel. Adorei Zermatt, o ambiente, a energia e, é claro, a experiência de esquiar. Amanhã partimos para Milão onde vamos dar uma volta e pegar o voo ...
Here We go
... nbsp; May have been the Tylenol PM. What to do? Where to go next. Open the map of Europe. Zermatt, Switzerland. Let’s pack our bags and go. Hop a train, go see the real Alps. Zermatt supposedly has no ...
Matterhorn Musings
... ever Berger sighting of in-the-wild EDELWEISS!!!! happened today, September 2, 2010, on the trail from the Rothorn Paradise to Zermatt. These little rather less-than-lovely-but-filled-with-romance flowers are elusive and only appear to certain ...
Zermatt, village au pied du glacier Matterhorn
We left Montreux this morning, and took the train to Visp where we transfered and took another train to Zermatt. We got to Zermatt at 1:30 pm. We took a kind of train in a tunnel that took us to Sunnegga paradise, a scenic point, at ...
Zermatt for Christmas '07
Took 3 trains, with the dogs, to get there: Tübingen-Horb-Zurich-Visp-Zermatt. Lots of snowboarding, amazing views from the highest lift in EU and a romantic Christmas eve sled ride. Amazing place and we can't wait to go back next ...
Twyning to Zermatt
... were brilliant. Especially the spicy drinks!! But then we had to move on for our destination. So we carried om through Switzerland and up through the Stunning Swiss Alps to Vispe ,where we took the slowest express in the world. The Glacier Express ...
The Alps, Switzerland
Matterhorn... Europe's highest peak... oh dear... Glacier Paradise... wonders of God and man's ...
Gornergratbahn
... whole trip will be 28 km/h. There is also a hotel on gornergrat, the highest hotel in Switzerland. I recommend taking the train upwards and walk down to zermatt, which will take around 3-4 hours depending on your fitness. Be careful: You find yourself in ...
Dag 1 Huttentocht / Zermatt -> Rothornhütte
... terugkomen. En daarna de trein op naar Zermatt om van daaruit te vertrekken. Onze planning: Dag 1: Zermatt - Rothornhütte Dag 2: Rothornhütte - Schönbielhütte Dag 3: Schönbielhütte ...
Highest Zipline in Europe
On Friday, we continued to "get the most" from our unlimited passes by taking the kids up to 3100m and the top of the Rothorn. Our journey took us up a Cog Railway (entirely inside a tunnel) to a Gondola. From the Gondola, we took a Tram to the top. Each ...
And then finally another train to Zermatt
Leg 4 of the trip - train ride to Zermatt - By this time it was dark to look out the window to see anything... and I was too tired to look out anyway ...
Zermatt
... de Dezembro de 2009 Hoje acordamos às 5 da manhã para pegar o trem em Trieste para Milano, Milano para Visp e Visp para Zermatt. Chegamos aqui logo depois do almoço. O hotel é bacaníssimo. De tarde demos uma volta pela cidade, alugamos o equipamento ...
The unbelievable hike
... . CT was yelling at me the whole way since it was seriously PITCH BLACK. We are in the middle of back country Switzerland with no flashlight. Earlier in the hike I cracked jokes on how if we got stuck out there, where would we ...
The Alps are pretty cool, I guess
Guten Tag! I just returned from an adventure to Zermatt, Switzerland, where I kind of got to use my German skills for the first time in five years. Zermatt is in the German speaking region of Switzerland, butof course they speak Swiss-German which ...
Our Suisse experience!
... you the challenge of figuring out where we were. I will put them on a separate post :) Anyway, the train ride into Switzerland was incredible!!!! The views along the way looked as if we were being tricked... nothing could surely look that amazing...how ...
Great train trip, weather getting worse.
... ; Zermatt is a town for the super rich. Oh yes, there are backpackers here, and families, but the prices here make the rest of Switzerland look cheap. Our hostel is charging 180 CHF a night for the 5 of us in a 7 bed room, that a fire marshal ...
Our Snow Angels
We ventured to Lake Konstanz on the boarder of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. We grabbed more supplies and purchased a 4 day First Class Swiss Pass (seeings as we’re such a classy family and all - ha ha!!) We took the 6 hour Glacier ...
Zermatt
... trip to Casa Raposa for boots. We took the funicular railway up to Sunnega from where we would wander back down to Zermatt. Entertainment on the journey was provided by Morag's pole dancing and Ros receiving and unexpected shower. The views ...