not far from where we started

Glacier Hike at Jungfraujoch

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August 19th 2010
Day 1 The trip to the top of Europe as what Jungfraujoch(young-fro-yuat)'s been named took 2.5 hours and involved connecting to 3 trains. The higher we went, the views became more and more breathtaking. I thought of postcards of Switzerland I'd seen and it's pretty much resembled to what I was witnessing with my own eyes except with a substantially better sense of scale and dramatic panoramic ... read more

Europe » Switzerland » South-West

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The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons. In succeeding years, other localities joined the original three. The Swiss Confederation secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. Switzerland... ... read more