Sunday, March 1, 2009

Day 7: 10/12/08

Today, we took an optional tour to Junfraujoch (top of europe) by a spectacular train ride... this cost us around S$300 each.. It is 3454m (13,333 ft).. Its freezing cold up there.. at around -8 degrees.. grrr... we took many photos as the train ascends up the mountain.. where we could enjoy the scenic feast if snow-capped peaks... woah!!! thumbs up... but as it ascends.. at around 3160m (10368 ft) I could feel that the air (oxygen) is getting thinner and thinner... mummy wasnt feeling very well due to the lack of O2...
We first visited the Ice palace... its kinda like an igloo wif ice cravings.. wasnt very cold in there.. After tt, i start to feel giddy and abit uncomfortable due to the lack of O2 esp in the enclosed area... we gotta slow down our pace... dun talk so much while we are climbing up the flight of stairs etc...
At around 11.45am, we had our lunch at the restaurant.. its a 3 course lunch set wif a soup, spaghetti wif huge sausages and lastly an ice cream.. i din set high expectations for this meal.. considering that its a restaurant which is so inaccessible coz its so high up... but to my surprise... it was fantastic!!! It taste delicious man... (saliva dripping).. haha..

As there are strong winds.. we are not encouraged to go out to explore the snowy white place... so we stayed around for awhile and left.. half of my tour mates were already "half-dead" by den... many were giddy.. feeling naseau.. pale etc etc...
We took the train down to the Eismer station (which is 3160m, 10368 ft)... by the time we reach there.. we were all feeling better.. a drop in 300m certainly made a lot of difference... we saw many experts skiing... i tried the sledge... we enjoyed ourselves.. was fun.. i saluate my daddy sia.. he actually sat on the sledge and go down the steep snow slope... initially i wanted to try but i backed up in the end.. it was way too steep and scary esp when u haf nothing to grip onto.. no handles, hand rails etc... haha.. juehui and myself found a gentler slope to try our sledge.. hehe..


See.. this place is like heaven ya.. so beautiful... tan4 wei2 guan1 zhi3 sia... so peaceful.. i juz simply immersed myself in such a shi qing hua yi (glories of nature, great scenic splendor) place... our hands were real cold... and it was chilling... but we really did enjoy ourselves.. out in the snowland.. playing wif snow.. making snowman.. etc.. b4 departing... we went to the cafe beside to have a warm drink as mummy was abit cold.. daddy tried their expresso.. mummy tried the latte.. jh and myself tried their hot coco... these HOT drinks juz tasted so nice as it went down my esophagus (even though it was juz normal).. we spent a good 2.5hrs over there...
By den, its time to say goodbye to Jungfraujoch.. we so dun wanna leave this peaceful and gorgeous place.. took more photos as we ascend down the train...


Reached the hotel in the evening.. we went to the supermart nearby and walked round for awhile.. btw.. our hotel (oberland resort) is at Interlaken.. which is situated between 2 sparkling lakes beneath Jungfrau.. its a spectacular holiday resort situated in the heart of the Swiss Alps.. This time round.. the lake were frozen and covered wif snow.. i vividly rmb seeing the 2 lakes during my last visit... during my last visit, we spent 8 days in Switzerland.. this time round.. we onli spend 2.5 days here.. i would certainly love to visit this place again!

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