Saturday, May 26, 2007

Hiking Near Interlaken






Yesterday we assembled a group of guys mostly from my room - from left above, a guy from Ireland, one from Boston and two brothers from Arizona - and went hiking near Interlaken. The brothers had hired a car, which made things easy. We drove to a nearby town called Lauterbrunnen, then hiked up to a higher town called Mürrer. The hike took about 3 hours and we climbed 800 vertical metres. The picture above was taken at the top of our hike. After we reached Mürrer we caught the cable car up to the top of a high peak called Schilthorn.

I have a ton of pics from the hike and from Beaune, plus a few from Paris, and it would be way too time consuming to put them on the blog, so instead I've created some Picasa albums. Go here and you can see all the photos. I've captioned a few of the more obscure ones. Here's a couple of pics for the blog though. The hostel I'm staying in in Interlaken:



And my hang gliding takeoff point:



Since I combined hiking and going to the top of the alps into one day, I just wandered around Interlaken today. Items on sale included a watch costing a mere CHF 47,210 ($A 46,750). Tomorrow I'm off to Munich. It's been fun here but I'm ready to move on and keen to get into Germany.

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