Over the past few days, we've been both relaxing and out doing some pretty cool activities! Grindelwald has really been the best place we could imagine spending over a week, as it's been a great base for us to branch out from. Today we took the train up the mountain to Jungfraujoch to "The Top of Europe", which is a research station, tourist hot spot, and snow activity platform. The train went up from Grindelwald to Kleine Scheidegg, where we caught the Jungfraubahn (a cog train) that actually goes through tunnels in the mountain all the way to the top. It was a brisk -2oC up at the top, and they're expecting snow tomorrow. Nevertheless, We're going to be pretty sad to leave here on Sunday, that's for sure.
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| En route to the top |
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| The view from our quick stop at Eismeer (the Sea of Ice), which is halfway through our tunnel journey through the Eiger Mountain at 3000m altitude |
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| The snowglobe filled with wood-carved sculptures in the Alpine Sensation exhibition |
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| This was also in the Alpine Sensation portion, which is dedicated to the sacrifices made by the miners to open up the Jungfraujoch to the railway which was opened on 1912 |
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| Some of the mining pioneers |
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| The highest altitude karst cave in Europe |
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| Entering the Ice Palace! |
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| A rare moment where we weren't in a crowd |
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| Ice Ice Baby |
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| Stand in line for the flag pic? No thanks... |
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| So serious |
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| Photo props to our American friends for taking this one |
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| Again, not gonna stand in line for that |
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| In the Lindt factory |
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| The view from the Sphinx Observation Deck |
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| Tell me you're not going to walk in front of me right now... |
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| ...aaaaannnddd ya did. |
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| My worst fear confirmed |
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| Still laughing that we got such a good shot of that kid |
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| Still pumped about this |
On the 25th we went up to First again and took the Mountain Carts down, which were essentially rubber tired trikes with breaks that were connected to each tire.
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| Casey: "You look like Toad off Mario Cart right now" |
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| Got the need for speed |
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| Case drifting in to the corner |
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The panoramic view of the valley and the Sportzentrum where we went for a swim and a sauna.
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