Lazarow World-Hike-About

That's a view...not the old man. Unfortunately, clouds blocking the Jungfrau ('The Virgin') Canals off the very large lakes Jenni gets close to the top, looks down into Interlaken. After Friday’s adventure, a great climb and a lot of suffering on arrival at ground level, the Sabbath timing proved perfect. However, unlike previous rest days, our recuperation was not complete. Nevertheless, we managed to convince our editor that we would take it slow up the 2,600 feet climb of the’ Hard Hill’. The funny thing is she suggested the hike, assuaging us of most of the guilt. The funicular is one of the ways to reach the, you guessed correctly, the restaurant perched on the top. Like all the other positions, it is a magnificent setting facing many of the great mountains of the Bernese Oberland including Lakes, Thun and Brienz. Unfortunately, the clouds came back after a week of relatively clear weather, thus preventing us seeing the Jung Frau, Monch and Eiger from...

What more does one want to see? What lies behind the cracks Smoking Tiger...um Eiger. That's a big line up, tough act to follow. When we left Grindelwald for Interlaken, we were a little sad following a wonderful experience, in fact, superb. We need not have concerned ourselves because the Bernese Overland is one mountainous paradise. It is quite staggering to grasp how much natural beauty exists and then to realize it’s concentrated in a relatively small area. We were taken in with the hamlet of Murren, situate 3,000 feet above the valley of Lautenbrunnen. The surrounding slabs spout water into the valley at an alarming rate—there are at least a dozen major waterfalls. We observed water barreling down the mountains, over the cliffs and even through tunnels from the top, middle and bottom of the mountains as we made our way down from Murren. A couple of waterfalls next to fields of color, on our way back A monster, a little different from the rest. We ...