Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Europe Trip: Engelberg - Mt Titlis

Tonight is yet another insomnia night, so must as well continue blogging about my Europe trip.

So, Swizterland is about mountains and more mountains. And in the morning, we embarked on a trip to Mount Titlis, our first mountain for the trip. The Titlis is the highest mountain in the portion of the Urner Alps north of the Susten Pass with the height of 3238m. I got a little antsy since hearing about how tourists got up the mountain and felt like puking and fainting due to the lack of oxygen and whatnot.


Nevertheless, we got on to the world's first ever revolving Rotair cable car that offers a 360 degree paroramic view of the Alps. In fact, we took 3 different types of cable car to reach the top.


On top of the mountain, where Kevin did silly things.


I couldn't recall the actual temperature up there, but definitely it was below freezing point. We encountered piercing wind and literally trembled uncontrollably as we climbed further up to the top of the mountain.



We braved through the coldness and sat on a 4-seater flyer with another couple. The experience was truly mind-blowing as well as mind and body numbing. Gusty cold wind that blew continuously on our faces while we hang in the mid air on the flyer was no laughing matter, especially for Asians who do not usually encounter extreme temperature like this.
And obviously, Kevin and I do not belong to the gung ho type of person and we figured that a hot chooclate would be an excellent idea to end the adventure. So we headed indoor to get some "hot air".

The food we ate on top of Titlis was pricey, Ikea style of food, self service restaurant cost us about SGD60-70 for two.
We ended our mountain trip in the late afternoon and I managed to capture some beautiful pictures on the coach while we head to Interlaken.


In the evening, we had Swiss Cheese Fondue for dinner. I had to say that it was not my cup of tea. The fondue rather was bitter because of the red wine added to it. It tasted very different from the one I had in SG, probably the localized version. However, we had great fun because the owner of the restaurant was fun loving and cracked dirty jokes. All of a sudden, the tour members started to be open to each another.


The day ended early for us because, there wasn't much night life in Switzerland, it seemed that everyone in Swizterland sleeps very early and of course, the shops closed early too.

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