Wonderschön Switzerland - A Eight Day Trip - The Programme

The Curtain Raiser

 Hello, So far we have seen series of blogs which took all of us to Russia (Moscow, Kazan and Saint Petersburg), Helsinki, Tallin, Riga and finally on a road through the Loire Valley of central France where we saw beautiful Castles and also the famous Mont St Michel on Normandy Coast.

Now I would take you to Switzerland on an eight-day trip to showcase a small and wonderful part of this country. Mostly around central Switzerland in and around Interlaken and Lucern. This post is a curtain-raiser to entice you to eagerly await the follow-on posts on Switzerland.

Goldswil Bei Interlaken, Amazing View

Here is how we enjoyed our 8 days -

Day 1 - Arrive at Interlaken from Paris via Basel (TGV High-Speed Train). Check-in. Evening at the city centre. Also visited " Harder Kulm" mountain.

Looking Down from "Harder Klum" Mountain

Day 2 - Visit Jungfrau mountain, the highest peak in Europe. Travel on Jungfrau mountain train.

Snow Capped Jungfrau Range

Day 3 - Visit Thun town. Visit Thun Palace, Thun Castle and during the return trip, we cruised  Lake Thun since we took a boat from Thun to Interlaken West.

Thun Palace

Day 4 -Travel to Brienz by train.  Visit the town, Travel to Giessbach Waterfall by Bus, Back to Brienz town. Travel to Lake Blausee (Blau = Blue, See = Lake). Visited Lake Blausee and Kende river bank.

Lake Blausee

Day 5 - Visit Schilthorn Mountain, visit Piz Gloria (this place is famous because of an old James Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was filmed here). Post lunch we travelled from  Interlaken to Lucern. Checked-in in our B & B.

Schilthorn Mountains

Day 6 - Visited Rhine Falls on Swiss - Germany Border.

Day 7 -  Visit Lucern City centre. Afternoon we took Lake Lucern Boat Cruize.

Lucern City

Day 8 - Lurecn - Zurich and flight back to India.

While in Switzerland, we stayed in B&B, utilised all modes of public transport like buses, local trains, long-distance trains, boats, Funiculars, Cable Cars, etc. Most of the travel except mountain railway for Jungfrau peak was complimentary as we took Swiss Rail Pass.

As for food, we cooked dinner on our own in the B&B, breakfast was either cooked by us or we managed with sandwiches picked up from "Coop" stores available on almost all medium size railway stations and cities. Lunch also was managed through Salad, etc picked up from where else but "Coop" again.

This trip, which was customised by us as per our requirement, was great fun. End of the trip, however, we felt that 8 days were too short to visit even this small region of this beautiful country.