Hotel Pollux Zermatt

... it up and buy a disposable camera. We kept going, it was pretty empty, as most Sunday mornings in Italy are, and walked the extent of the town. There's an island nearby, if you want to know the story behind it click here-http://www.orta.net/eng1/isolasgiu lioe.htm-and by the time we got back to the center the town had woken up and there were people everywhere. I'm glad we got there when we did. There was a path around the lake that we walked, then it was time to ...

... used my final day of my eurrail pass for this trip only to find that the trip from Visp station to the Zermatt was not valid despite being told by two train operators that it was. I also couldn't get through to the girl at the station that my eurrail pass allows me discounts for the train but she kept telling me, 'no, no, you can't use anymore days it's full'. Today wasn't the first time I have been stuffed around by the Swiss. It's hard to believe that Einstein was educated here.<br><br><br>

... out the signs and found that none of pointed to the place we were trying to get to, so we must have been going the wrong way. Very disappointing! But on the bright side (isn&#8217;t there always one?!) we had a gorgeous view from up there and the Matterhorn was peeking through the clouds at just the right time. It was the perfect moment to take a breather and some good piccies before our trek back down!<br><br>The trek down took about 20 minutes, it wasn&#8217;t as ...

... br>We had decided to travel via Aosta, so as to get as close to the roadbook outlined route as possible. About midday, we got our first views of Mont Blanc, or Monte Bianco, as the Italians know it. As we turned off the motorway, we could still see it, until the narrow winding roads took us across the other side of another mountain.<br><br>Now we realised this was our last chance to get the police photo, as soon we<br>wouldn't be in Italy any ...

We woke "late" (8am) and were the last to leave our bunk. Skipping breakfast, we began our 5 hour journey back to Zermatt. We chose a route that would give us a different view of the valley, but involved 1800m of decent. We paid for it for the next few days. We arrived at our apartment and ...

... was the size of a stamp. BUT; the balcony had the most glorious view of the MATTERHORN that I have even seen!!<br><br>It was 9 PM and we rushed to the Microtile next door also owned by this couple. We split a cheese fondue and went to bed on the worst mattress I have even laid on. No sleep foir me that night.<br><br>Best memory-the train to Zermatt. BTW- the old cog train is gone. Avalanches hit in 1991, and these new trains replaced the old cog rails...

... standing so high on a mountain and still having to look so much higher to see the top of another. We took the gondola to the top of the Alps (don't ask if they were the Swiss or Italian alps as that is a source of much debate) and it really did feel like we were on top of the world. I personally had a hard time with altitude sickness; I was very close to fainting and could hardly ...

... group met on time and the mix of a honeymooning canadian couple, a swiss mum and dino from luxemburg was to be led by our french mountain guide. we eased into it the first afternoon, catching the chairlift up and hiking about 3 hours to the first hut, alberto primier which had us go up another 500m in altitude to aprx 2700m. The refugio was an experience and a half, and had me questioning what i had gotten myself into again here! Able to ...

So if anyone reading this has ever been to banff and had a good time then you would enjoy Zermatt. It totally reminded me of banff. Touristy ski town. The matterhorn mountain is pretty neat and looked familiar as when i was little i went to disneyland and rode the matterhorn ride. I did some hiking and went out for dinner. my first night in the hostel I was the only one there, haha, i watched some tv ...

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