Murren and the Berner Oberland

After Zurich, we took a train to Mürren in the Berner Oberland. Well, let's me more precise. Zurich to Bern. Bern to Interlaken Ost. Interlaken Ost to Lauterbrunner. Lauterbrunner  to Grütschalp. Grütschalp to Mürren. It was complicated and troublesome, but as you can see below, worth it. Never more than seven minutes between trains)

Because this is the view from our hotel room:

The Jungfrau:

The Eiger and the Mönch:

AND us:

It is hard to capture the beauty of this place.

If you like mountains

I goofed up this photo. It is supposed to look like a James Bond title shot:

On Her Majesty's Secret Service was filmed here.

Mountains

Mountains

More Mountains

and more mountains

Here we are, begging for asylum:

A warning

Which Doreen ignored:

The crows of Piz Gloria:

An Ibex!!! I mean, an actual IBEX!!!

We were on the last cable car down for the night. There were only these few hardy souls who stayed up that long. One of those Japanese women came a took a photo of my phone, with this photo on it. Very meta!

This is an edelweiss.

I can tell you this, it was not white, clean, or bright.

The Eiger and Mönch at sunset.

We took a couple of very long (about nine mile or so) hikes up there in the Berner Oberland:

a perfect U-shaped valley:

And cows

And waterfalls. We took our lives in our hands to get to this little beauty. I am very afraid of heights, and this took all my nerve to get to. (Not as bad as the Bridge of Death in Quebec, but bad none the less)

Here is the sign to the waterfall. (The Sprutz. Hahahahhaah!) You'll note it says "Vorsicht!" which in Swiss German means "Almost Certain Death!"

The next day we decided to do it again.

Here is Doreen pointing out our path - to the bottom of the valley:

We went by beautiful meadows:

These folks use a lot of wood. Or at least they store a lot of wood:

A lot of wood!

Touching the water. That's one of our things.

This was the "Dia de los Chorros" or the day of the waterfalls.

I'm not posting all of them, because there were do many!

That U-shaped valley.

The trails are called "Wanderweg" in German. Wander ways. Nice.

That's where we came down from! And yes, we walked. 

Cows with bells.

Good looking cows.

That's where we were. But no, we did not walk back up.

Our hotel

 Last view

 And down on the train, starting our trip to Geneva. (Mürren to Grütschalp. Grütschalp to Lauterbrunner. Lauterbrunner to Interlaken Ost. Interlaken Ost to Bern. Bern to Geneva.)