The Journey from Geneva to Interlaken via Bern, the capital of Switzerland was one of those breath taking journeys of my life, a journey I would cherish to my grave. The moment we crossed the Geneva Station, the view of the Lac Leman from the train was just amazing. We had a really comfortable seat to settle into as we were booked into the 1st Class. We had the privilege of viewing the ever so popular Swiss cows for the first time through the train. Now we knew we are getting into the real Switzerland that we so desperately wanted to see all our life.
A View of Lac Leman from the train
It was a two hour journey to Bern from Geneva, a journey we thoroughly enjoyed. The 12x camera I had brought with me was put into good use along the journey. We were going mad clicking away at just about everything and anything we could see, it was just so lovely. Each and every moment was worth the visit to the Swiss. We reached Bern at about 11 am and took the connecting train to Interlaken to begin another breath taking journey. We reached Interlaken West station around 12.30 PM and then headed to our Hotel, The Splendid. We realized they were pretty serious about the 3PM check in and we had to wait till such time. We deposited our luggage with the reception and headed out to have a stroll and catch up a well deserved lunch. We had our lunch in a French Restaurant run by a French national settled in Swiss. The rice and curry was surprisingly very tasty and your truly treated myself to an extra serving of the same. We then headed back to our Hotel and checked in. We found it to be a pretty cozy one. One enquiry with the reception staff who were pretty courteous we were advice to head to the Harder Köln, a mountain peak nearby. And here began the real expedition. It was our first climb. We took a "cog wheel" up the mountain and it was thrilling going up the mountain. Once on top, we roamed around and had a wonderful view of the Interlaken town. We could see both the West and OST stations from the top. After spending close to 2 hrs up there, we headed back down on the very last trip of the cog wheel, not before we met a group of Japanese there, who were so very happy that I could talk my 20 words of Japanese.
View of the Mountains from Interlaken
Once we were down we headed towards the River, which feeds the two lakes on either side of Interlaken and hence the same. The river gets its water straight from the Alps and hence was sparkling clear. Able to see the bottom of a flowing river was something special. Then we headed to our hotel to freshen up before we headed to an Arabian hotel for a dinner, which was better forgotten.
At the River in Interlaken
We had a comfortable rest in our hotel and prepared ourselves to the most awaited part of our Swiss trip, a visit to the Jungfraujoch
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