Now, we begin our journey to Grindelwald as we say goodbye to Luzern. It was a dramatic change going to Grindelwald being surrounded by snow-capped mountains and webs of hiking trails and cable cars taking you to almost every level of all the mountains!
Grindelwald is a quaint village located southwest of Luzern in the Bernese Alps, and is a popular winter tourist destination for skiing and a summer destination for hiking. It's great you can enjoy these amazing mountains all year long!
So! We take the Goldenpass Panoramic railway to Interlaken Ost. Only the first car of the train provides a panoramic view of your trip. The windows wrap up the top of the train, and is like an IMAX experience! I love how Switzerland trains are on time and get you to your destination as scheduled! But, you gotta be careful because they make no announcement or buzz of a horn when your train is about to leave -just make sure you're already in the train!
Riding the Panoramic coach was definitely worth it! The smooth, yet fast, ride alongside an enormous lake and through the mountains, gave you billions of photo opportunities. The view was amazing and the comfortable seats made the experience all the better, haha! With the snow-capped mountains coming into closer view, we knew that we were nearing Grindelwald!
From Interlaken Ost we take a local railway to Grindelwald. (The train station below is not Interlaken Ost, we took a detour before arriving at Grindelwald!) Not to mention we view a group of cyclists about to take on one of the trails -I'm sure they've done this a bunch of times!
At last, we finally make it to Grindelwald! Since we had an afternoon open to do some exploring, we decide to take a short cable car ride up a nearby mountain to get a view of the village from above. That experience will be my next post! Sorry to keep you waiting, but I don't want this post to be a long, tiring read for ya =) (Oh! And we encounter some local moo-moos (cows!) in the mountains!!)
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