Day 63: Sion To Interlaken

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Heading off again more south and towards the French border we decided to take a side trip up to the Grand St Bernard Tunnel and pass to have a look. Guess what, yep that’s right the bloody pass was closed. Switzerland is closed. We decided not to go through the tunnel as the toll was 37e each way and anyway all you see is the inside of another tunnel. Considering the pass was closed we had no choice, we went up anyway, to hell with the Swiss officials and there crappy closed signs. To be fair we only made it about 5 kms up the pass road before it became obvious why it was closed, see the photo. The road was blocked by ice and snow about 3m high we were at about 2200m. Returning down the mountain we had gone about 1km when we saw a large animal that looked like a beaver front and squirrel tail about the size of a fox. We decided to leave the freeway and head into the back roads again. We found a great little road heading up the hills through Jaun and on to Interlaken. The scenery through this 80k odd drive was just outstanding, picture postcard typical Switzerland, green tree studded valleys set amongst snow peaked mountains. Stopping many times to take photos we finally got to Lake Thun and started looking for a free camp site. Finding one above the lake at Faulensee, it has great views but is close to the railway line so we hope the trains don’t run too late.
N 46 40.5 E 7 43.5

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[Janice Dunn]

Switzerland
Beautiful Swiss scenery