Jungfraujoch

As the logo says "Top of Europe"

Left the hotel early to catch the first of four trains needed to get to the top.

There are two routes up the mountain and we choose to go up via


A train change there took us to Kleine Scheidegg and another change and we went for the summit.

On that leg, stops were made for viewing at Eigergletscher, but that was clouded in as was Eigerwand and it was not until we reached


that a view of the mountainous terrain was before us








After a 5 minute stop the train continued on to the final stop at 11333ft and we were extremely lucky that in the couple of hours that we were there the clouds and mist lifted periodically to allow a lovely view of the Swiss Massive.













There was an ice palace that you could walk through which was colder than being out in the open





On the way down at Kleine Scheidegg we took the train to Grindelwald and the views of the villages below us and as we passed through then were quite superb











Grindelwald itself was a very attractive village and we spent around an hour walking through it before getting on the train to return to Interlaken West








The above photo is from Grindelwald looking back up the lower reaches of the terrain and gives an indication of how steep the train track is.

The trip to the Jungfrau is truly a bucket list item.

Tomorrow we drive back to Zurich via Bern before taking a late night flight to Hong Kong arriving there around 9pm NZT Tuesday so our next post will be sometime after then.

We have been in Europe for 52 days as I write and have had rain only on 2 days so we consider ourselves very fortunate that the weather gods shone on us (again)!