Train: 11:45 Zermatt-Munich (via Visp, Bern, and Stuggart)
Day Six: 25 December; Merry Christmas!
This day was spent almost entirely on the train, but not before going to the top of a mountain to try and get a better glimpse of the Matterhorn.
Dad, Jace, and I took a train to Gornergratt - one of the mountain peaks, but as we were taking the 30 minute ride, it started snowing - a lot. By the time we got up there, you could hardly see 10 feet in front of you!! The crazy thing to me was that this fact did not stop the many skiers who sailed downhill in almost total blindness!! Though we couldn't see the Matterhorn, there were a couple of shops up there, and we did a bit of souvenir/Christmas shopping.
Then we were off the the train. It was a long day on the trains, but really not so bad. We ended up getting to Munich 2.5 hours earlier than planned due to some very helpful information from the ticket-taker. (basically he told us that when we were going to transfer to get on the train to Bern, we could do so a stop earlier than what we had planned, which allowed us to catch earlier trains throughout - Merry Christmas to us!)
We got to Munich a little after 8, checked in, unsuccessfully looked for a restaurant around the hotel, then decided to simply eat at the hotel's restaurant before calling it a night.
on top of the mountain. It's hard to tell, but we are standing at a lookout point.
White out!!
someone else made the snowman - I just wanted a picture with it
I could never do this.....
Of course it all cleared up about an hour later.
NOW you can see the Matterhorn!
One last shot from the train as we were leaving.
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