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| View from the Eiger Express |
To get there, we took the train from Interlaken Ost to Grindelwald. Then we boarded the Eiger Express Gondola to get to the Eiger Glacier Station. From there you take the Jungfrau railway which terminates at the Top of Europe, the highest railway station in Europe.
The whole journey takes about an hour and a half, but it goes by quickly - the scenery is amazing.
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| Jungfrau Station (in the Mountain) |
Once you are at the Top of Europe, there are things to see and do. The first thing we did was to go up to the viewing deck of the Sphynx Observatory. From here you can see 360 degrees at all the mountain ranges. On a clear day, you are supposed to be able to see France (which is not close).
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| Brrr |
It was 23 Fahrenheit (-4.6C) and it was snowing, which really wasn't all that bad for being 11,000 feet up (3571m) in late September in Switzerland. We had fairly poor visibility, but we could definitely tell we were high up - with sheer dropoffs below us as seen through the snow grate.
After returning inside, we visited the ice palace, where even the floors were made of ice.
As typical Bradley fashion we speed-runned the whole place and were back in Interlaken in plenty of time for our 4pm chocolate-making class.
We booked the chocolate-making class through Funky Chocolate Club.
Swiss chocolate is favored worldwide for its smooth taste which comes from the milk of the free-range cows that feast on the native plants. We learned how to temper the chocolate, then made and decorated our own bars, available to pick up the following day after they had cooled.
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| Nailed It! |
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