9 day holiday trip report at Switzerland
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Hello friends ,
this is our 9 day trip travel video squeezed in 6 minutes
I just wanted to share my experience of my self guided trip along with my wife and 3 year old daughter. It wouldn’t have been possible without the inspiration and feedback from this website & forum to travel without a guide / pre arranged tour Agencies.
prior to even travelling, many of my close friends were asking ” why 9 days at Switzerland? You’re gonna regret and get bored after 3 days. Club travelling to Italy and france within 9 days” they said. But i had other plans based on the inputs from you guys. I knew 15 days weren’t going to be enough to get bedazzled by the beauty of the country. But budget is also a concern so i thought 9 days would be balanced for me so that it wouldn’t be too hard on my pocket when i returned home. And guess what, all trip expense was on target.
We used the swiss travel pass 1st class for 8 days and it was the best thing to invest for a stress free holiday and the advantage it offered us. Hopping on to trains , buses was convenient, boats top deck for the best views was just exceptional. To add to the convenience was the SBB mobile app. There were days we missed the early morning train planned but were assured by the app on the next train in 30 minutes or so and at which platform. I cannot express enough to tell how easy it is to travel in Switzerland to any destination and combine boat and trains.
this was our itinerary:
Day 1 : Reach Bern and walk around town
Day 2 : Day trip from Bern to Vevey town and Le Bouveret swiss vapeur parc
Day 3: Day trip from Bern to Lucerne and the Golden Round trip to Mt. Pilatus, Tobbagan run at Frakigaudi
Day 4: Day trip from Bern to Thun , Speiz Castle with boat trip on Lake Thunersee, and Boat trip to St.Beatus Holen Swiss caves from Speiz
Day 5: shifted from hotel at Bern to hotel at Grindelwald, visited Grindelwald First and Tissot’s First Cliff walk.
Day 6: Day trip from Grindelwald to Mannlichen from Grund and spent the afternoon at Wengen
Day 7: Day trip from Grindelwald to Schilthorn via Murren & Stechelberg. Spent the afternoon at Gimmelwald and Lauterbrunnen
Day 8: Day trip to Jungfraujoch from Grindelwald
Day 9: checked out from Hotel and travelled to Zurich. We stored our luggage at Zurich HB main Station at SBB lockers and walked through town and also visited Zurich zoo. Our flight back to Muscat was at 10pm
On a lighter note, some of my friends (same one as stated above) are asking me for advice on how to travel. 😉
Do let me know if you any further info. I would be more than happy to share to the best of my knowledge. After all i think this is the way i could give back to this wonderful group of people contributing to this website.
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