A journey like never before - Part 2

At 3 pm, we left Luzern by the Golden Pass line, a scenic route lasting 5 hours, a journey through unforgettable landscapes. There are lots of lakes in here, and they are pretty big. The water is bluish green, and has a ground glass look. The line took us through Interlaken, Zweisimmen, Montreux, and then finally Lausanne.

Our diet mainly consisted of chocolate cakes, loads of bread and apples, that we brought from our originating cities knowing that Switzerland is costly. Being starved of sleep and also a proper diet, we were all pretty tired, when we moved to Geneva airport for the night stay without going around Lausanne for a while as planned previously. The day saw people become nostalgic over mess food.

We also had to drop Zermatt from our plan, as our Eurail passes weren't valid on that line. But it was good in a way because we had more time for Luzern. At Luzern the group broke, as Diptarka and Ketan had to return early.

The Lion Monument built in memory of the Swiss mercenaries who were killed in the French revolution

A cave bear skeleton at the Gletscher garten.

Here we went through the geologic history of Switzerland, all about ice ages, the clues it left behind in the rocks, and remnants of mammoths and other flora and fauna dating back to 4 million years in the past.

But where Piyush and I had max fun was the house of mirrors, where we were literally lost in the 'bhulbhulaiya' made by using mirrors. We had to grope our way to understand which was a mirror and which wasn't, and many times we crashed right against the mirrors.

We took a ferry to Burgenstock-Kehristan. They called these boats.

The picture above is of Mount Burgenstock from where we had yet another breathtaking view of the Luzern lake. To get up to the hill, we rode a funicular (pic below), which took us up at something like 60-70 degrees, but the passengers in it felt it as 15 degrees odd, because of the shape of the vehicle.

1/3 of the panoramic view from atop Mt. Burgenstock, where we went for a 1.30 hour walk with this view on one side and the tree covered hill on the other

One good thing about Switzerland is that all its ultra-beautiful spots are very easily reachable. To scale huge mountains they use an array of ropeways, or vehicles like the funicular. In India, what would have taken a 2 day road journey, winding up the hills, here it is done in 15 minutes odd.

And another thing is the weather. I got the impression that mostly it remains sunny in here. In our short stay, rarely did the clouds come to block the views.