I usually do Free & Easy Travel thus a lot of "Homeworks" needs to be done before each trip and I find it a waste to just dump it one side after all my hard work. So decided to to have a blog to record some of this up , hopefully someone might find this useful for them.
It had been a while since i update this blog , it's not that I did not travel but rather am too lazy. This is my latest travel holiday in Japan.
Had been staying in Tokyo for about 1 year , it had been a new experience though an expensive one ! During my school holiday , decided to visit Shikoku - a place that i always wanted to visit and also to add on to my visted perfectures list , making it now 45/47.
We decided to not only self drive but also to make it into another motorhome trip.
We did our rental with Around Japan RV for this trip as they have small size motorhome and they are relatively new fleet. It actually quite similar to the one we had in Iceland ( will try to blog about this trip also soon..... ) Had quite a few backlog trip to do up for these 2 years travel.
This is the simple itinerary, over the years I find that my itinerary is getting more and more simple ( aka i am getting more lazy and have more play by ear ! )
Today we will be going from Interlaken to Gimmelwald which we will be staying for 2 nights at Pension Gimmelwald, min 2 night stay and cost us 320CHF for 2 nights , double bedroom ensuite.Then from there we will be going to Schilthorn then to Murren, next to Trummelbach Falls and finally back to Gimmewald for the night. We had plan 2 days in this region and pray for good weather as we plan to visit both Schilthorn and Jungfrau.
Check out of the hotel early and had our breakfast prepack by the hotel to eat on the train. We left Interlaken at 6:05AM and reach Lauterbrunnen train station at 6:25 AM. From there , get out of the station and walk towards the bus stop for Bus 141 which will leave at 6:35 AM and it will reach the Stechelberg station at 6:47AM.From there , take the cable car to Gimmelwald at 6:55 AM to Gimmelwald in 5 min. As we are early , we just drop out luggage at the hotel and make our way back to the station for the next cable car at 7:30 to Schilthorn. Half card will get you 50% of the tickets to Schilthorn. From past experiences, it's always good to visit mountain area in the morning to avoid clouds and crowds.
From Gimmelwald, one will have to take the cable car to Murren then change to another cable car Brig then another one to the top of Schilthorn taking a total of about 27 min from Gimmelwald to the top. Schilthorn 's Piz Gloria if famous as the flaming location for the 1969 James Bond 007 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
One very cool thing is that we saw a guy who just bring along his paraglide and pithing minutes he just jump and glide down the mountain.
From the top , we took the cable car back to Brig which feature a "Thrill walk" - The THRILL WALK leads down into the vertical walls of the imposing rock massif. Visitors walk along a 200-metre cliff pathway under Birg cableway station.
After completing one round of the Thrill Walk , we took the cable car back to Murren and decided to have our lunch there before heading back to Gimmelwald and checking in to our hotel.We took a short rest after check in and then we make our way to the Trummelbach Falls by taking the cable car to Stechelberg Station follow by another Bus.
Trummelbach Falls consist of "10 waterfalls " in a cave , which is actually different part of the falls view at different locations.For a start , you can choose to take the lift up then after that slowly make you way down to the exit.
We took the bus back to Stechelberg Station and since it was still early , we decided to walk over to the waterfalls on the other side of the carpark. Managed to climb up to the foot of the fall thru a steep rocky slope. By the time we reach back at the hotel , it was almost 19:30PM.
Pension Gimmelwald is actually a restaurant on level one , so either you can choose to have your dinner there or it's better to have it at Murren there as there are more choices or of cos to save money like us , Instant noodle + supermarket.
