Thursday, May 13, 2010

Switzerland....

sorry it has taken so long. internet is hard to find here and is expensive. ok so here is the update...

we stayed in bern on the night of the 12th. we got up in the morning and explored the downtown old city of Bern, which is pretty cool actually. very interesting old buildings and this church with this spire that is near 328 feet high. we climbed a stone spiral staircase to get almost to the top. it was very tiring but totally worth it. Bern is also famous for having bears. they have a bear pit right in the old city. they have this fenced in area by the river bank. we went and saw them and it was awesome. there are two little cubs now too. not sure if this is where the bernstein bear name came from but somebody should look it up.

so after exploring bern we spent about 30 minutes wandering lost trying to find the parking garage where our car was. we found it and left for Interlaken. quite the neat little city nestled between two gigantic lakes at the base of the Bernese Oberland Alps. we found our hostel which we have our own room and the beds are comfortable. its great. we then drove up to this little tiny town called Lauterbrunned up this very narrow valley. there are probably 10 visible waterfalls all about 300-350 METERs high (1000 feet+). way cool. we were lunging for our cameras. lots of cows as well. the cows here are much healthier than the ones you see in the US. here all the cows are really fat and well fed. probably because the grazing is great. great fields everywhere that never turn brown.

after lauterbrunned we went up another canyon/valley to a little bit larger town called Grindelwald. also very cool.

today, may 14th, we both got up a little late. been rainy all day. we went to these caves that go way back into the mountain. lots of stalagmite and stalactite formations inside. very intersting. we also went up to lauterbrunned again to go to this other waterfall that cuts its path through the rocks of the mountain. you take a cable car up and walking through these tunnels in and out of the mountain following this waterfall that has about 11 different sections. again, lots of steps to climb up and down. that was fun. then we had to be back to our place by 4 because we had a reservation to do a canyon jump. its like bungee jumping but instead of being attached to a bungee you are attached to a rope that is tied to a cable about 50 yards away from you. you are harnessed in and jump off a platform for an 80 meter freefall before you get yanked and then swing for a while before coming to a stop. there are youtube videos of it. just look up grindelwald or interlaken canyon jump. here is one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4fqyN1vm50&feature=related
anyway, i took videos too and pictures but i cant plug my memory card into this computer.

so that was our day today. tomorrow we are leaving interlaken for Lucerne. there we are going to explore the city and then on saturday morning we leave for frankfurt to visit the germans for 2.5 days before going back to Paris.

i will post pictures and videos the first chance i get.

1 comment:

  1. looking at the change in titles from your last entry to this one it seems like your enthusiasm is waning...

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