As planned we got up @ 4 .00 am on Sunday morning and came to breakfast table by 5 .00 am. We booked our cab by 5.20 so that we can get the ticket to Jungfrau and catch the Golden pass train @ 6.05 from Interlaken OST.
All went well as planned and we all got into the Golden pass train from Interlaken OST. After about 1 hr of journey we reached a place called “Lauterbrunnen”. We had a connecting train (a narrow gauge) from this place to a place called Wengen. It was a wonderful journey and very scenic all thru the way. We took another connecting train from Wengen to Jungfrau and the travel from Wengen to Jungfrau is awesome.
The travel from Wengen to Jungfrau is worth a mention here. It is close to 40 miles travel and all the way the track run into mountain and you will never get a chance to look the outside world. I wonder the construction and the time it was constructed. They started this work way back on 1902 and completed the entire work by 1916. We reached Jungfrau after 1 hr journey.
Jungfrau is the top of Europe and it is at a height of close to 3700m (11ooo feet). They have a observatory at the top of the peak and a ICE palace. You can see the entire Alps mountain range from Jungfrau and it a treat to watch. One of my life time dream came to true on that day. We went to place called “Plateau” and felt like we are somewhere in Artic or Antartic (the temperature was close to -20 c) and the wind did rest of the damage. We couldn’t manage to stay there for more than 5 mins continuously.
We spend around half a day in Jungfrau and then decide to start to the next destination “Schilthorn”. You have a revolving restaurant at this place and at an altitude of 2969m (close to 9500 feet). We came all the way to Lauternbrunnen and then took a Cable car to a place called Murren. We then took a train to Murren station and then walked for 15 mins to reach another cable car station in Murren.
We took 2 more cable car ride and finally reached “Schilthorn”. The restaurant in Schiltorn is a 360 revolving restaurant (costlier) and it takes one complete rotation in 1 hour time. We heard that this place came in some old James bond movie.
We reached Interlaken OST by 7 pm in the evening after a satisfying day. We then finished our dinner in the so called Indian restaurant (Shalimar). Our plan for Monday is to visit Mt Titlis, Luzeren and Mt Pilatus. We planned for our next day trip and then went to sleep by 10 pm.
To be continued…
All went well as planned and we all got into the Golden pass train from Interlaken OST. After about 1 hr of journey we reached a place called “Lauterbrunnen”. We had a connecting train (a narrow gauge) from this place to a place called Wengen. It was a wonderful journey and very scenic all thru the way. We took another connecting train from Wengen to Jungfrau and the travel from Wengen to Jungfrau is awesome.
The travel from Wengen to Jungfrau is worth a mention here. It is close to 40 miles travel and all the way the track run into mountain and you will never get a chance to look the outside world. I wonder the construction and the time it was constructed. They started this work way back on 1902 and completed the entire work by 1916. We reached Jungfrau after 1 hr journey.
Jungfrau is the top of Europe and it is at a height of close to 3700m (11ooo feet). They have a observatory at the top of the peak and a ICE palace. You can see the entire Alps mountain range from Jungfrau and it a treat to watch. One of my life time dream came to true on that day. We went to place called “Plateau” and felt like we are somewhere in Artic or Antartic (the temperature was close to -20 c) and the wind did rest of the damage. We couldn’t manage to stay there for more than 5 mins continuously.
We spend around half a day in Jungfrau and then decide to start to the next destination “Schilthorn”. You have a revolving restaurant at this place and at an altitude of 2969m (close to 9500 feet). We came all the way to Lauternbrunnen and then took a Cable car to a place called Murren. We then took a train to Murren station and then walked for 15 mins to reach another cable car station in Murren.
We took 2 more cable car ride and finally reached “Schilthorn”. The restaurant in Schiltorn is a 360 revolving restaurant (costlier) and it takes one complete rotation in 1 hour time. We heard that this place came in some old James bond movie.
We reached Interlaken OST by 7 pm in the evening after a satisfying day. We then finished our dinner in the so called Indian restaurant (Shalimar). Our plan for Monday is to visit Mt Titlis, Luzeren and Mt Pilatus. We planned for our next day trip and then went to sleep by 10 pm.
To be continued…
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