Europe Trip: Switzerland - Interlaken, Valais Region

If you never been up to Jungfraujoch, that means your Switzerland trip is somewhat incomplete. The Jungfraujoch is a col or saddle between the Mönch and the Jungfrau in the Bernese Alps on the boundary between the cantons of Bern and Valais, inside the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area with a heigh of 3471m.

Despite being called the "Top of Europe" in the tourist literature, the Jungfraujoch isn't exactly the highest mountain in Europe. Going up the Jungfraujoch is fuss-free as compared to Mt Titlis. We took two types of train up the mountain. The scenary that we saw while traveling up the mountain was simply magnificiant. Perhaps it was the snow that further enhances our visual.

The railway.

Before getting on the train. This time round we were more well prepared. We had heat packs, double layers of gloves, wore jeans with thermal leggings, and four layers of clothes including two different types of thermal wear. I couldn't bother with the fact I seemed to gain a disasterous 5 kg in every pictures.

Singaporeans love shopping, and we are no exception.

We were waiting for the second train to go up the mountain. And it was already freezing cold. It should be below freezing point as well.

-9 degree at the top of the mountain.

We experienced mild snowfall.

Everyone was queueing up to take pictures in front of this wall, it is like a de rigueur.

I finally understand the phrase "blow away by the wind" because I almost got blown away. The wind was so strong and I could not proceed further up the mountain because I was climbing up the slope against the wind direction. I had to go back indoor, take a break and then venture out again.

We had Swiss lunch at the restaurant, had my favourite shoe-string fries. Still having ice-cream huh...

We headed to Zermatt and Bern after spending a day at Jungfraujoch.