Jungfrau

Our summer tour of the countryside, lakes and mountains of Switzerland and Paris. Now I cam add the Paris part. :)

Jungfrau ...

... cog-wheel narrow-gauge rail from Lauterbrunnen, through the picturesque village of Wengen, and on up to the foot of the Jungfrau (and surrounding mountains). Before we reached Klein Scheidegg, we stopped to pick up a work crew of 7 orange-suited rail ...

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An hour's hike along dizzyingly steep ridgelines next to impossibly high mountains brought us to Eigergleitscher, the mouth of the rail tunnel up to the Jungfraujoch railway station. The hike was silent and lonely as we were the only ...

After breakfast at 8am, which included a chocolate rabbit for Easter, we caught the 9.50am train to Jungfraujoch. After a scenic climb up the mountains we arrived in Kleine Scheidegg where we changed trains for the trip through the mountains to ...

The next morning 12 of the 41 of us decided that seeing as we were in Switzerland we should possibly see the Swiss Alps. Only 12. How ridiculous is that. Okay, it was pretty pricey: 127 SF, but considering that's a 2 hour trip up the mountain in which ...