Well supposedly it was another day of leisure, lets see how that panned out, Along with Geoff and another member of our party we made our way to the railway station and caught the train to Lauterbunnen and then a bus to the Trümmelbach water falls, a series of ten underground waterfalls.These drain water from the glaciers and are the only underground glacier water falls open to the public. Thankfully there is a lift to take you up to where you enter the caves, although we walked down the external stairs when we left.
| The underground waterfalls | A lift to the main entrance of the caves |
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We then caught the bas back to Lauterbunnen where we stopped for a coffee. A little further down the valley, opposite the underground waterfalls is a very high fall
before returning to the station where the second Geoff was also waiting to catch the narrow gauge train to the top of Klein Scheidegg which is quite close to the Eiger. There are two stations with three different rail companies on the mountain. Two lines run parallel at one station, the line we came up on and the line we will be going down on, the third carries on up the Eiger, we didn’t go on that on.
Geoff left us at this point to walk along the ridge to the cable car.
While we were up there a helicopter was ferrying what looked like sections of a pedestrian bridge down from the Eiger as an under slung load. After a couple of ice creams we caught the train down to Grindelwald, here we changed to meter gauge track and took a train to Zweilutschinen then changed to go back to Lauterbunnen. Here we crossed the road and took the Funicular railway up the mountain and a shuttle train to Murren.
From Murren we took the cable car back down to the valley floor. This is steepest cable car in the world and drops almost vertically to the ground like a lift.
The whole of this valley is very popular with paragliders leaping off the high sided shear mountain sides and landing in the valley, from the cable car they were flying below us. The Cable Car station is also the terminal for the bus, the same route that we followed to get to Trümmelbach Water falls first ting this morning. Luckily there was a bus waiting and we caught it back to Lauterbunnen station. We had bit of a wait for our train so I took a few photographs of the local rolling stock.
When our train arrived it was a mad rush to board and we were hard pushed to even get in the doors, we then had to battle our way through to the first class carriage, where thankfully there were seats and we had a comfortable ride back to Interlaken.
By the station Interlaken has its own reflective pool, but unlike Mr. Trumps this one works.
So much for a day of leisure, we didn’t stop all day.
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