Switzerland, CH
46°49'5.5'' N 8°13.651' E
A story of transition by train caught on film.
By now, it is no surprise how much we enjoy train travel. Or Switzerland. Or hiking. Only this time we didn’t travel by train for a hut-to-hut hiking holiday, like we normally do. Instead, we made train journey the adventure itself, with hiking breaks in between long train days to stretch our legs.
We mostly followed the Grand Train Tour routes, with a few changes motivated by our desire to discover new places along the way. We had explored most of the starting and ending points of the major panorama express trains before, so this time we looked for something new along the route.
Here is a snippet of our adventure seen through my analogue lens - enjoy!
Day 1: 5 trains, 1 funicular
Munich (DE) - Zurich (CH) - Lucerne - Interlaken - Lauterbrunnen - Grütschalp - Mürren
Day 2: 27280 steps, 662m of altitude gain
Hike from Mürren to Rotstockhütte
Day 3: again 5 trains, 1 funicular plus 28655 steps
Mürren - Grütschalp - Lauterbrunnen - Interlaken - Spiez - Kandersteg - Zermatt with a hike from Kandersteg to Oeschinensee and back
Day 4: 28058 steps, 865m of altitude gain
Hike from Zermatt along the Zmuttbach and back via the Furi suspension bridge
Day 5: the Glacier Express
Zermatt - St. Moritz
Day 6: the Bernina Express plus 3 trains and 15307 steps
Celerina - St. Moritz, a walk around the St. Moritz lake, followed by St. Moritz - Tirano - Monza - Lugano
Day 7: the Gotthard Panorama Express plus 3 trains
Lugano - Arth Goldau - Zurich - Neuhausen Rheinfall - Zurich
Day 8: the train home
Zurich (CH) - Munich (DE)
