So I spent the last weekend in Switzerland and it was a great time. We took a tour group bus to Interlaken. Several people from my program all decided to go this weekend, so it ended up being a blast hanging out with all my friends in a different city. I decided to ski for two days and i night sledded the second night. It took us about an hour to travel by bus then by train then by another train and then by gondola to get to the ski lodge everyday at Jungfrau Mountain. The sights were beautiful though, probably some of the most breathtaking ive ever seen. I hope some of my pictures can do it justice. I really was worried, thinking it was the swiss alps, so it had to be really hard, but i was happily surprised to find out that majority of runs were moderate difficult so i did very well across the whole mountain. So i spent about 2 days on the mountain and in the end when i looked at the map of where i had gone, i probably hit like 30-40% of the mountain. It was huge! The second day we stopped at a lodge on the mountain where i had the best brat and beer ive ever had, they were glorious. We had some complications coming back from skiing on the second day and my friend and i missed our night sledding time. Luckilly they had some opening the hour after ours, so we missed going with people from our group, but at least we got to go. And it was probably the best thing i did there.
We sat on small classic looking sleds and went high up the mountain in a gondola and then went down trails about 10-15 feet wide very very fast. It was completely dark and the only way you could tell where you were going was that the snow was white looking and every thing else (rocks, trees and cabins) were darker. You controlled by sticking your feet in the ground and the trails were super winding and crisscrossing all over the mountain. It was intense. I must say that my friend and i were actually getting quite good at it and actually were racing against our guide at the front the whole time.
The hostel we stayed at was called the Funny Farm. It was very clean for a hostel and we got private rooms. The bar downstairs served great food and great drinks. A friend and I played pool all night and it was a great time. The town was quite chill and made for a nice quiant village to walk around when we werent on the mountain.
My next post will be about my trip to Amsterdam this past weekend which also went well. So ill talk to you all later.
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