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For a vacation in Berner Alpen you need a minimum of extra equipment:
1) Leave your Manolo Blahniks at home and take good hiking-shoes instead, when walking in the mountains of Berner Alpen and especially at the Jungfraujoch and Schilthorn , where I saw that funny "trafic-sign" : Many of the paths are quite slippery sometimes, you will have to step through alpine pastures, solid rocks and loose gravel - all of that is not really a good place to show your latest fashion-shoes...
2)Be careful, when hiking at glaciers in wintertime : For some people it is not always easy to understand, why you would not be allowed to leave the marked paths on top of Jungfraujoch. You may see great crevasses there nearby and plenty of foot-prints of other tourists leading there as well...
I made my pics in a large distance !
Please keep in my mind, that any rescue-activities have to be payed by the incautious tourists, and most of the insurances will not pay anything, when you had left the ordinary mountain-paths !!
3)Some chocolate and an extra bottle of water makes always sense, because when hiking you never know how long you will have to wait for help in case of an emergency or when you are forced to get shelter in an empty mountain-hut because it is that foggy or raining outside that you cannot see, where you are going.
Bottles of the light PET-material are the best - you will not feel them, when they are empty, and you may re-fill them at many natural fountains on your way - the quality of the mountain-water is always excellent in Switzerland and the cheapest mineral water you may buy in a vending-machine is 2 sfr., mostly it is even more expensive. Leave a Comment
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| | | | Gimmelwald is NO base to explore the area !! | Tip Rating: | | | | |
Choose your hotel carefully, when you are going to explore the Berner Alpen, some places are perfect regarding the means of transportation, BUT their hotel-prices are a bit higher. Other places are very remote and offer cheap accomodation like Gimmelwald that was mentioned and recommended in various guidebooks, also by Rick Stevens and in fact it is a really lovely, remote village, where time seems to have stood still since hundreds of years....
Gimmelwald is a great place for a daytrip from Interlaken,
BUT choosing a hostel there in order to explore the Jungfrau-region
DOES ABSOLUTELY NOT MAKE SENSE !!
A simple excample :
You like to explore Kleine Scheidegg & Jungfrau from there :
The cablecar is leaving Gimmelwald every half hour to Stechelberg, the ride takes just 5 minutes, but in Stechelberg the bus to Lauterbrunnen will leave mostly only once every hour. The first cable-car from Gimmelwald is around 06.15a.m., the last one is 11.10p.m.
When staying in places like Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen, Stechelberg etc. you may still take a taxi when you want to go home after the end of public transportations, BUT for Gimmelwald there is NO road to !!
Gimmelwald is at the very end of the valley, high above Stechelberg - the only way to get there is by cable-car or hiking !! There is NO public road to Gimmelwald !! Leave a Comment
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Please - please don't pick any of the alpine flowers since many of them are endangered! Just enjoy seeing them, do take pictures or take a noseful of the smell with you - but leave them where they belong! Leave a Comment Website: http://www.botany.ch/alps.jsp
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The streets are sometimes very very small !
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