Hotel Paradis Leukerbad
Kunibergstrasse 14 Leukerbad, Valais, Swiss Alps, 3954, Switzerland
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To the Top
... Looking west, we pointed to a smallish mountain. Let's climb that one.
After crossing the forested valley, we were at an angle again...a very steep angle. Often, we'd stop to rest, to take pictures of the city below, or to grasp at a tree as a foot slipped out from beneath us. No fear of tumbling off the cliff--just onto our faces. Signs in German proclaimed wanderweg (what we later learned to mean "hiking ...
Which language are we speaking?!
... a temperature difference of 10 degrees between Mannlichen and Grindelwald and 1000m drop in altitude to give you an idea of how long it was. Even the wind burn we received from a 5 year old roaring head first down the mountain couldn't dampen our spirits. (We could hear his Italian dad behind us muttering to himself hoy hoy hoy hoy as he watched his son embark on a death defying plummet down an icy section. Fearless!) With very few people on the run we took our ...
Welcome to the Cabaret
... and finally we landed at the Happy Inn Lodge. We were greeted warmly by the Swiss bartender, and soon we were relaxing in our room from our long day of traveling, going through pamphlets advertising various extreme sports that we could do the following day. Since Interlaken is considered the extreme sport
capital of the world, we figured “when in Rome!”. We decided on Canyoning, since it was the cheapest thing we could do, and agreed we'd book it first thing in ...
The city of Lucerne, then off to the Alps
Day 57 – Monday 21st June
We woke up and the weather was well... pretty much the same, except not raining so much. So we gave up on good weather and packed up our things and headed to Lucerne. We didn't exactly have a plan, but just made it up as we went.
We found parking near the train station, got some good information at the tourist office then had a wander around town. Lucerne is small, but quite ...
Swiss Miss and the Alps ;)
... We were all exhausted and went to bed very early since we wanted to get an early start on Saturday morning! Saturday came and we got directions to a different part of the mountains. Kate, Aric, Evan, Meghan, and I took a bus and a train to a town called Grindlewald, where we took another bus to get to the gondola to take us onto the mountain called First (pronounced fierced). This gondola was another good 30 minute ride up where we took another chair lift to the ...



