Switzerland Trip

In this blog, I would like to share the route that I took for my Swiss trip of 5 days. I'm very positive that this would be helpful for those who intend to visit Switzerland.



The Plan
Our plan was to spend 5 days in Switzerland
Day 1: Land in Geneva Airport and then travel to Interlaken in the Golden Pass Train. We would stay in Interlaken for the night.
Day2: The entire day would be spent in the Jungfraujoch Peak travel . We would stay in Interlaken for the night.
Day 3: We would visit the Schillthorn Peak during the first half of the day and during the second half, we would go to Luzern via boat to Brienz and then in the Golden Pass train. We would spend the night in Luzern.
Day 4: We would visit the Titlis peak and in the evening, head towards Zurich. Spend the night in Zurich.
Day 5: Visit Zurich city and then travel back to Geneva. Visit Geneva lake during the second half of the day.

Geneva Airport, Montreaux Surprise
We landed in Geneva Airport around 10:00AM. We bought the half fare card and the tickets to Interlaken from the Geneva Airport Train Counters. There are 3- 4 counters and you should expect a waiting time of around 30 -45 minutes. They accept payment in Euros and in Swiss Francs. We boarded the train to Montreaux from the Geneva Airport. We reached Montreaux within 1 hour 15 minutes, around 12:35PM. We had a Golden Pass train waiting but we wanted to have our lunch. We stepped out of the railway station and found that the place had no restaurants. We walked for 5 minutes and took a 200 step staircase to reach the main road of Montreaux. The place had a good view of the Lake Geneva and was a surprise. We had food in McDonalds and then spent around 30 minutes in the beach side. I felt that we should have spent the night or at least 3 hours in the beach side. We had to rush back to the to the Railway Station to board the train to Interlaken as we had reserved our seats in the Golden Pass Train at 13:45.

Golden Pass Train
I would recommend seat reservation so that you get good seats. Again, a painful surprise was that it was Golden Pass Classic - which meant the following - compartments were small, seats were small , had all antique look and worst, the windows were small and cant open it! Well then, it was Golden Pass Classic and I had paid for it. If we had boarded the train at 12:45 or at 2:45, we would have been in the Golden Class Panoramic, which had big windows and can open it so that you can take photographs. The scenic beauty was so awesome. The train took us to Zweisimmen around 3:30PM. At Zweisimmen, we had to change the train. God helped us- the next train was a Golden Pass Panoramic train, with large windows. The travel was via Speiz and then through the shores of Lake Thun to reach Interlaken at 5PM. We got good snaps of the Lake Thun with ice capped mountains in the background. PHOTO HERE

Interlaken
We went to Interlaken Ost station so that we could go to Wilderswill. We had booked our night accommodation in Wilderswill - a small village, 5 mins by train. The place was excellent - calm, scenic, a small stream, good view of the Jungfraujoch mountains and nice people. We went to our hotel, which had large and clean rooms. From our balcony we had a good view of the mountain peak. We kept our baggage in the room and then went back to Interlaken. Matter of fact, Interlaken West was much better than Interlaken Ost. West had a beautiful stream, lot of shops and lot many restaurants near by. We spent some time in the town and then had our lunch in a Chinese restaurant. Buffet (to-go) for 10 Francs was worth. We then returned back to the hotel and had a good sleep. We were supposed to leave the hotel around 7:30 AM, the next day, to take the early train (to beat the crowd) to Jungfraujoch.

Jungfraujoch Peak
The peak is indeed good and will depend on the cloud that day! .