Switzerland Lauterbrunnen and Stechelberg
Switzerland Day 1 Lauterbrunnen and Stechelberg
In the summer of 2007 I took a mountain hiking trip to Switzerland with my then-friend Big Red. This is the story
of what happened and what I saw. We took a flight in late July on Continental Airlines to Zurich, Switzerland.
From there we took a train to Wilderswil, a small town on the outskirts of Interlaken, near mountain country.
Wilderswil was a small touristy/agricultural town where people kept goats in their front yards and the hotels looked
like "old style" swiss chalets. Unfortunately when we got there the whole town smelled of animal manure. We worried our hotel room
would too, but luckily it passed. We were put in a very nice looking room at the Hotel Baren. Though the room was very small, it was
at least a non-smoking room--for a while.
My Mom had instructed me to go to sleep immediately on arrival to deal with jet lag, so we
immediately went hiking for 6 hours in the Lauterbrunnen valley. The flat valley was beatiful, sandwiched between tall rock walls
on either side with snowcapped mountains at the far end, and fields and roaring streams in the middle.
This was the town of Lauterbrunnen
There was a waterfalls right behind the town!
See the snowcapped mountains in the back?
The river was roaring with white water from melting glaciers
Stechelberg was a cute valley town at the end of the valley. Sorry, no pictures of it, but it
had a nice roaring waterfalls at the end of it. Unfortunately, Big Red didn't want to walk that far.
"I don't want to walk that far!" she cried, when we were only two
minutes from the waterfalls at the end. So finally I had to leave her there so I could go the
last two minutes and see at least the bottom of the waterfalls.
Click here for day 2 - Kleiner Scheidegg and Mannlichen
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