It’s a dream to scale the Alps, to be on top of
the world, to feel the chill of the icy glaciers, to take the highest ever
mountain railway in Europe and journey all the way up beyond 11,000 feet.
Welcome to Jungfraujoch in Switzerland.
Verdant valleys with a distant view of the
snow-capped Bernese Alps, frozen little blue streams and tall conifer trees
rushing past you - your journey to Jungfraujoch, often referred to as the “Top
of Europe” begins from Interlaken in Switzerland.
The most spectacular aspect of this journey is
the Jungfraubahn cog railway that literally takes you right up the mountain to
the doorstep of peaks and glaciers. You can start from Grindelwald or
Lauterbrunnen and the fairy tale journey takes you up to Kleine Scheidegg and
then onwards to Jungfraujoch to the railway station, located at 11,320 feet.
Jungfrau in German means maiden or virgin and
this train journey stops only at two stations as you travel through tunnel built
inside the two mountains – Eiger and Mönch, mountains in Bernese Alps .While the train
does stop to give you spectacular views of Eiger, the other stop is at Eismeer,
which means sea of ice.
The doors open to glaciers as you can see the sun
streaming though the mountains. The three mountains on the ridge are Eiger, Mönch and Jungfraujoch and are often referred to as
the Ogre, the Monk and the Virgin. The entire journey
uphill took us a little less than an hour while the return was about 30 minutes.
This is my favourite view when I stepped out, the
blues, the whites and the stark contrast of it all. The Aletsch Glacier beckons
and despite the sun shining, I shiver even with layers of clothing and feel
excited about being on top of Europe.
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