Hotel de la Foret Crans-Montana

Destination 405<br><br>km197'555<br><br>Not entirely shure, if I spend my last day in a foreign country, I head towards north. A stopover at Novi Ligure provides me finally the opportunity to send a notification to all family and friends about my remaining itinerary before return back home. The date has been fixed to the 29.<br>The ride up to Vercelly in the low lands was not that exciting like the sighting of the mountain of Mont Blanc in the far. Since my ...

I am only stayin the night just to see the Matterhorn. The sun is out and I took a hike up nearby hill. It was about an hour and a half uphill walk with regular short stops to catch my breath. I think I have had enough of hiking now, I did 4 hours of it at Montreux as well, I must have the best **** at the moment. Spectacular view of the mountain at the hilltop though. It's less of a mountain and more of a giant pinnacle of rock. It looks menacing, to prove it there is a nearby graveyard full ...

I decided to change hostels because I really didn't like this one. I am not fond of the international hostels. They're like hospitals, although the buffet breakfast was nice and I liked their cat. I was woken up by screaming, unruly kids. Some parents aren't parents. I was happy to change. The sun had also come out and so I snuck on the train from Montreux Tilletet to Veyvey which is only 5 minutes away. The place is much nicer and has free food and a kitchen. I actually got an entire 6 ...

... deep snow up there for a while till my feet started getting cold. Kathleen hadnt come up but I was so glad I did! Also this place is where they filmed one of the James Bond films.. his majestys service. Cool! After this I made my way down the 3 gondolas to at the bottom. Then took a bus to a place called Trümmelbach falls. Its a series of 10 waterfalls that are partly inside the mountains. Over the years they have carved out corkscrew holes ...

... drop full of avalanche protection fences for a much less gradual descent. These would also come in handy if either of us lost our footing&#8230; luckily not necessary.<br><br> In the next two days I did a couple more hikes, much easier. I took a walk down to the end of the valley, hiked up a bit of a hill, but nothing as strenuous as the first day. Got some more good views and considered that day ...

... canyoning on the 25th.<br><br>25th- Canyoning. awesome. because of the storm, had to go to a "moderate" canyon as the "extreme" canyon was flooded i.e. flash flood, the same kind that killed 21 people 10 years ago.<br>26th- bungee. ridiculous. fun, but never again. got motion sickness hanging upside down. <br>need to get out of Interlaken, its too deliberated.<br><br>27th' arrived in ...

... moaning in protest. Determined to get to the top, as it had been my stupid idea in the first place, we plodded on and managed to get to the top in about the same time as the trail markers suggested. Talk about hard work as my heart rate sat above 160/min the whole way, and even though it was about 8 degrees outside we had stripped down to t-shirts. The bad weather that had been threatening all day arrived in Wengen about the same time we did and the jumpers ...

... that night the weather had cleared properly and boy did we get a glow in the dark view. There was a mountain at the end of our valley that we didn't even know was there!! Tt basically glowed in the dark because of the snow on top.It was awesome. Simon got some great photos. Andrew and Nikki are due tomorrow and we feel it is a shame to waste what promises to be a great day on the road traveling, so decide that we should stay on another day to try ...

This place was awesome!! Smack bang in the middle of the Swiss Alps. Our hostel room was little wooden cottage, and the view all around was just of mountains. The one directly infront had snow on top. The one to the right had a waterfall that you could climb up to and stand up (and get a tad wet). The hostel had a river running through it - so cold that they kept beer in there to keep cool all day. Not much to the little town itself, just one long main ...

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