Interlaken

Interlaken is a city that is a must visit in Swizterland. It is a beautiful place to go for site-seeing. We went at 11 from Zürich to Bern first. There we took another train to Interaken and reached Interlaken east. On the way to Bern, we saw beautiful lawns full of some yellow flowers. Large mountains and lots of trees, just turning green. Some of the trees were reddish/brownish in color. It was breath-taking. Killol also loves this scenery so we two were just looking out and watching all this.We saw a nuclear plant( atleast thats what we thought it was. Some kind of a dome and nearby was a chimney with steam/white smoke coming out of it). also, in the sky, fighter/jet planes were leaving streaks of white smoke. In general when I saw this it was really worth coming to Switzerland. But I did not know there was more to come. This was the journey to Bern. Cute small houses in between the lush greenery, and cows chewing the grass in the fields. When we change the train in Bern (which as you know is the capital of the country. but the station in Bern was worst that I saw here. The Zurich station is wonderful.) the journey from Bern started with the scenery of snow capped mountains. It is burning hot down in the streets and still the mountains had snow all over it. These were the Alps -the largest mountain range here and it was very beautiful to watch. Some of the mountains had snow all over it but not at the top .. it was very funny looking if you know what I mean. All over the journey from Bern to Interlaken, this was a scene that we could watch continuously. Also, the lush gren fields with some yellow looking flowers were also there. We went from Thun to Interlaken west and fnally reached Interlaken east. Here we got down. We had been split into two groups : Adi, Dinesh, Vishal and family and Himanshu and family had gone by the 9.30 train from Zurich. And in this train, we were me , killol, ashwin, soumit and two other guys Arshad and Nagesh. Sheetal had seen this city so she did not come. We called up Adi asking where he was, he said that they were in mystery park. We debated where to go, but since all of us were hungry we decided to eat something. So we went into a restaurant, where there was no food that I could eat. Ate somethings which were edible for me and left the rest of it. Wasnt tasting good at all. Then we were thinking of going for paragliding. But all weren't in for it. We went to meet Pramod and another guy called manoj here after lunch. They said that we could go cycling in the city and then go via boat to Thun. So we rented some cycles (ashwin, killol, sreejith, pramod, manoj and me) and the rest decided to go on foot only and meet us in the boat. We went a long way on the cycles. The view that I saw was splendid. As we went in the outskirts of the city, what I saw will always haunt me. the cycles were geared cycles so cycling wasnt much difficult. As we passed the city, we went closer and closer to the mountains. We thought that it will be cold then, but no it was still hot and the mountains still clad with snow. We saw beautiful green fields with cows grazing in them. We touched them as they came near us. Took photos. I know they were just cows, but they were so clean ;) As we passed, I saw different kind of trees, with various colours ( not as many as they would be in spring) but the most of all were white (these trees had some white flowers small ones), pink, reddish brown colored leaves, and several others. The lawns or the fields were green , and it had these yellow and purple flowers that we normally see even on our mountains sometimes. These fields had cute houses. And it was so peaceful. It was like the people out here did not have any bothering things. they were living so happily. We saw mountains that were looking huge and big from so close. We stopped at a place where there was a kind of fountain. Here wherever there is a fountain, u can drink water from it. And we were a little tired also, so we stopped. I took the water and splashed it on my face, and got a shock :) It was very cold. As I said earlier also, the sun was burning down on us and we were sweating. and still when we touched this water it was like ice cold. We then drank this water and it tasted very sweet. Maybe it was because of the beauty all around me that it was tasting so sweet. But whatever, it tasted like heaven to me. then we again went forward. We came back to the city, and then decided to cycle along the river. So we went that way , the river flowing besides us and we cycling along the tracks. That scene was beautiful , the same things here , but which we seldom find in India. The cleanliness and the peace and the beauty all merged into one. I felt as if this was the city that I had always dreamed about of visiting. All the greenery, all the snow clapped mountains and all the peace together at one spot. We cycled along the river and reached Interlaken west (from east and its a long way u see) Then we had to catch the 5pm boat, so we turned back and went to east.Gave the cycles back and reached west by bus. Here we took the boat to go to Thun. the ride on the boat was also breathtaking. I saw mountains which was covered with snow completely and some with a little bit of snow here and there. And also, I saw a huge mountain, it was really huge , but noone could tell me the name of the mountain. We saw a small waterfall while going in the boat. It was very small, but its position was really nice. And since this is just the onset of summer, the melted snow was really making the waterfall full of water and it was flowing with full force. We reached Thun with all this scenery throughout the boat ride. I did not feel like taking my eyes off it. Then from Thun, we took a train back to Zurich and again saw the same scenery from bern to Zurich. And you wont believe it , at 7 the sun was still shining as if it was just 4 in the afternoon. It is light here till 9 pm in the evening these days. We reached Zurich, ate dinner and then I went to my house and slept.