Gimmelwald Hostels - Reviews and Rates

A friend of mine, Kelly, actually convinced me to leave the mountain and accompany her to Brugges and then London, where she would fly out and go home. It was a good break from hostel life here...and being in an English speaking country was refreshing.

Brugges was nice, a beautiful little city with fashionably cute people on bikes, lovel...

Tomorrow is Swiss National Day and there are various festivities all through August. A bunch of people who were here before for a long time are coming back for August, so it should be good.

Almost a month living in the Swiss Alps and it just keeps getting better and better here. There are a handful of kids who stay here for a long time, and those who are coming and going. There are those who come back year after year, and I'm feeling myself a part of a huge network of good people who like slow living and enjoying the best nature ha...

Grutzi! from the beautiful Bernese Oberland.

After Budapest, I moved on to Salzburg which is a nice little town. I saw ice caves there. But then I got all itchy and decided that I wanted more than anything to go into Switzerland and hike like crazy for a little while.

I chose the town of Gimmelwald in the Jungfrau region. I got he...

Sorry I haven't made a post for a while. I have been away from a free internet connection and just generally really busy trying to cram everything in. But here's what I've been up to.

Interlaken was a bit boring with the exception of the adventure sports, so I left early in the morning for Gimmelwald. After a train, a bus, and a cable car...

Cant beat 40 euros for a flight from Istanbul to Bazel, Switzerland.  By far the best country in all of Europe.  I make Gimmelwald my home base (sort of) which is right on the cliffs of the Alps, and from there I make a side trip to Laussane for some fondue (sort of).  I will let the pics speak for themselves here, but if you decide to visit Swi...

31.8.08: Day 7 - Gimmelwald Today marked the end of our first week of traveling. But I guess, like every graduation/commencement speaker points out, with every end comes a new beginning. So tomorrow we will head to Milan for a night before making our way down to Croatia. Can't wait. This morning we woke up to what's become our usual 8:15 alarm a...

30.8.08: Day 6 - Interlaken to Gimmelwald I can't believe I was able to sleep through the Australian guy's snoring, but I did, and soundly too. Our zip-lock bags came in handy again today at breakfast, which we enjoyed outside in the sun. We saw the same enormous St. Bernard in the lobby we saw last night. It's probably the owner's. My only ques...

We headed out early this morning to get a start on the 2 hour trek to Jungfraujoch, The Top of Europe. We left Gimmelwald and took the bus to Stechelberg, and went from Stechelberg to LauterBrunnen. From there we caught on alpine train to Kleine Scheidegg. In Klein Scheidegg we changed trains after buying a couple beanies (to keep Les's head war...

A day of travel across an amazing Swiss landscape by train and gondola has landed us in charming little Gimmelwald, where everything closes at 6:30 and the nearest grocery store is a 30 minute hike up a mountain to the next town, Murren, the only restaurant in town is the Hostel, which serves a wonderful pizza for 16 swiss francs, and you can´t ...