More Mountains

Leaving Zurich I took the "Train to the Top of the World" but we only had time to go part way.  The cog railway starts at Grindelwald, stops at Kleine Schweidegg and continues to Jungfraujoch sometimes at a 47 degree climb.  You can see why they need to use cogs to keep the train from sliding back down the mountain.   I can not imagine that you could see the mountains any better from the end of the line than we did from Kleine Schweidegg.

The Jungfrau is the flatter mountain just right of center.

Glaciers filled some of the valleys between the snow-capped mountains, and some of the mountains across the valley did not have any snow.



















We saw sheep and cattle grazing in the meadows and hundreds of chalets scattered in the open fields.

At the end of the train ride we re-boarded our bus for the trip to Basel.  There was a slight delay while we waited for a herd of cows to cross the road.  Every spring the cows are driven to the high pastures for the summer where their milk is made into cheese.  Then, in the fall, their return to the lower altitudes is celebrated by decorating the cows with flowers and huge bells for the return trip.

The citizens of the city of Interlochen (literally a city between two mountain lakes) purchased a large plot of land so that no one could build and block their view of the Jungfrau.

The high mountains north of the city are a perfect place to launch hang gliders.  We saw as many as 7 at a time slowly descending to land in the park.  Each glider had an instructor and a tourist.


Interlochen is a city famous not only for the mountain view, but for its grand old hotel, gardens and a new casino.