Swiss trip - D2

After having a good sound sleep and getting rid of the previous days tiredness, we were all set to conquer Jungfrau. While we were having our breakfast, our hotel guy mentioned that Beatenberg was the longest village in Europe. He also gave us a route map to go to Jungfrau. It was - bus from Beatenberg to Interlaken West, another bus from Inter West to Wilderswill, and then trains from Wilderswill - Lauterbrunnen - Klein Scheidigg - Jungfrau. We followed his guidelines religiously. The train journeys from Wilderswill - Jungfrau was quite interesting, with splendid views of Switzerland and the Alps. Here are a few..

After a 2.5 hour journey, we finally touched Jungfrau - Top of Europe at around 11ish. We had earlier brought passes to Jungfrau region at Lauterbrunnen itself. We first went to Ice palace, where beautifully crafted sculputures of ice were placed. These guys are too talented ah..

After being here, we just felt that mouses were running in our stomach(for literal meaning, translate this to hindi ;) ). We went to Bollywood restaurant which was crowded with full - I mean FULL of desis ! We weren't even allowed to enter the restaurant and were chucked out of it ! So, to feed our mouses, we went to a self service restaurant(you know how difficult it is to get veg food here!). And our trays were like this..

Ok, now it was time to have some fun. I just stepped out of the enclosed place and went outside, just to make out that I had gone blind ! I could see nothing around - everything was so covered with snow that I couldn't open my eyes ! Infact, I had sunglasses, but didn't care to wear them. Now I wonder how SnowWhite would look like !

Next, we moved to Sphinx observation centre, where nothing could be observed cos of heavy winds and snow. There, I stepped out with glasses, which made sense ! Something was visible !

Then, we moved to the adventure place - the place where we had been waiting for! Played so much till our hands became numb & it was about to get black! Still, this spirit continued and we enjoyed in the snow for some half an hour !

We made it a point to catch the last but one train back to Interlaken West and succeded in doing so. We caught the 4:45 train from Jungfrau, but this time our return route was Jungfrau - Klein Scheidigg - Grindelwald - Wilderswill - Interlaken West. Here are some exotic scenes on our travel back..

We reached Inter West at around 6PM, walked around the city, did some shopping and went to another Indian restaurant for dinner(Indians, whereever they go - prefer to have Indian food only!). Also, as time was running out, we had to catch the last bus to Beatenberg, and we managed to do so. We reached our hotel at 10PM and it was already misty and slightly raining. Our hotel guy mentioned that Mondays weather was not good enough and to plan our tour. We had initially thought of going to Mt. Schilthorn(just cos of going in cable car), but then we had to work out again. We did some planning and were geared up for Schilthorn and then crashed. More about mondays trip in my next blog..