What is your favorite setting in the world? A beach or the ocean? The forest? A meadow?... Mine is being in the mountains. The sight of them is such a testiment to God's might, in my opinion. So getting to take a 2 hour train ride up and through the Swiss Alps is an ideal way I would spend any day. And I was so excited to get to do this with my mother. The Jungfrau is a region of the Alps in the middle of Switzerland - an absolutely beautiful place. We stayed one night in Interlaken - a town inbetween two beautiful lakes surrounded by the Alps. At first I was kind of being a little grouch because we were in this little town - sorry mom, again (you know why moms are so great? Because they will put up with you when you are 22 years old and still behave like a little stinker sometimes).
We started the day early and hopped on the train. We had to change to 3 different trains along the way at these little itty bitty villages and the last one was just a train stop on the side of the mountain legde. Just looking out the window all the way up was the best entertainment.
They market it as the being the Top of Europe. False. I was disappointed. The Jungfrau is not the tallest mountain in the Alps, but it does have the highest railway line. So it's the highest point normal people can go. Only those crazy extreme climber people have gone to the actual top of Europe (which would be the Mont Blanc on the border of Italy and France at 4,808m - Mount Everest is at 8,848m so don't get too excited). I do not have the skills or the emotional stability to do that so I was content with the comfy train ride.
This place isn't a popular place for Americans to travel to when they are in Europe, but it is at the top of my list now. It's an incredible place. All of Switzerland is an incredible place. It has the most charm, I think.
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