Vacation to Switzerland-Mt. Titlis.

Mt Titlis. is one of the tallest peak Switzerland, at 3020 m / 10,000 feet.

We woke up in the morning and were a little disappointed as it was not a sunny day .A little drizzle, but we still decided to take the chance (you can never predict the weather in Switzerland so we were ready with our raincoats…:)as we had just that day, as we were leaving the next day for Interlaken.We headed towards Mt. Titlis from Lucerne via Engelberg.The train journeys throughout Switzerland are beautiful and it is the best mode of travel(at least we felt it that way). It was a 1.5 hrs journey one-way.

Engelberg, located at 1,000 meters and the base for Mt Titlis. We got into the gondola and and as it took off it was a great experience…the kids really enjoyed the ride:) The gondola first took us up to Trubsee, which is located at 1,800 meters. As we continued our trip by another gondola to Stand which is at 2,428 meters it was as if we were heading straight for the clouds…another thrilling experience…and finally the first revolving Titlis Rotair cablecar one of its kind ! It's the world's only rotating gondola - as you're moving upward, the entire floor slowly rotates in a circle, giving you a 360 degree view which took us up to Mount Titlis. at 3020 m / 10’000 ft.

The cable car...and the views were...wow!!!...the cows in the meadows...

the revolving Titlis Rotair cablecar...trying to manage the kids... 

We were rewarded with an incredible view of the surrounding snow clad mountains. There is snow year-round at the summit The sun did appear for a few minutes and Arun took a few shots though not very happy as we could have done with a little more sunshine...




we take a break and as we headed for the snowit gets colder…It was our first  experience with the snow and we really enjoyed it…Hiya refused to wear her gloves and still played with the snow…



Diya enjoys herself...

The next thing we knew was that it had started raining and so we headed inside to check the Glacier Grotto.

It's called the Glacier Grotto, which gave us you a unique opportunity to walk through a glacier. They tunneled out a couple thousand tons of rock and ice out of the glacier, approximately 150 feet below the surface, and set up a path that you can walk through. The temperature is a constant 33 degrees farenheit year round. The blue light inside are from ultraviolet lights set up, although the ice has a natural light blue color.



It was really cold inside for the kids so we had to go back… the same way back to Engelberg but this time we got the rains…

We catch a train to Lucerne...



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