The Grindelwald is a village in the canton of Bern. Just as in Zurich, Lucerne and Interlaken, most of the population speaks Swiss-German. It is mostly common for the north face of the Eiger, which is a really popular challenge for mountain climbers.

Just as the Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen is also a village in the canton of Bern and located only a 20 minutes car drive from the Grindelwald away.

 Glacier Gorge

The first thing you should definetly do, is visiting a glacier gorge (Gletscherschlucht in German). For me, this is something really impressive, to see what a glacier has done with the mountains. The simple fact that the glacier is moving and takes all those little stones with it, forms a glacier gorge. It was really amazing, and definitely a visit worth.

Basically, you walk from a parking area to the entrance of the Glacier Gorge. During the whole visit, you walk over a wooden walkway over the raging water. By every step, you get more and more deep into the depths of the gorge. It takes you about 45 minutes to visit the gorge with its 1.000 meters of depths.

 Trummelbach Falls

These are glacier waterfalls inside of a mountain. You can reach it by a tunnel lift. As all the water came from 3 different mountains, the Eiger, the Mönch and the Jungfrau, it is an enormous amount of water which falls down every day, for being exact there falls every second 20.000 litres of water down the waterfall.

This was so amazing, you can walk throught the mountain with all the waterfalls around you. At one point, the water is so near an strong that you can get wet. Since I always want to make pictures, I had problems with my camera, because I had to pay attention that it wouldn’t get wet, and because of the humidity inside the mountain, the lens of the camera clouded. The next time, I will take something to protect it against the „rain“.

 Eiger north face

The Eiger is a 3.970 meters mountain in the Alps overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen. Its north face is one of the three great north faces of the Alps (besides the Matterhorn and the Grandes Jorasses). A German-Austrian group of climbers were the first who climbed the north face in 1938. But not all of the following climbers were so lucky, since 1935, at least 64 climbers have died while trying to climb up the north face of the Eiger.

During the day in Grindelwald, I absolutely wanted to see the Eiger north face, one of the countries landmarks, but unfortunately we only saw the Eiger FOG face. Everything was covered with fog.

So, before we were leaving Grindelwald, we returned to the Eiger to see its north face, because that day was so clear and sunny, that I couldn’t miss this famous landmark.

Kleine Scheidegg

After visiting the glacier gorge, I wanted to go eating in a restaurant named „Eiger Nordwand“ (which means Eiger north face in German) which was located on the „Kleine Scheidegg“, which is the name of a high mountain pass between the mount Eiger and the mount Lauberhorn in the Bernese Oberland. It is a connection between Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen.

So we feeded the address into the navigation system, and the voice of it started to navigate us. After driving a while straight up the mountain, we started to get doubts about this route. At one point, the street, which wasn’t even a real street, got so steep that I stopped and didn’t want to drive anymore, I was to scared. So, we decided to drive back to Grindelwald, and Yannick drove us back, because I didn’t want to. Afterwards, we discovered that a mountain railway could bring us up. So, how crazy should my navigation system be, to bring us up on a mountain where basically a mountain railway is doing the transport of the people!

So we ate in a restaurant in Lauterbrunnen, a small town near Grindelwald. I ate the best raclette in my live there.

As I absolutely wanted to get on the „Kleine Scheidegg“, Yannick and I took the mountain railway to get up there. On the way, it was very strange that we were the only guests who wanted to get up there. As soon as we were up on the „Kleine Scheidegg“, the railway conductor told us, that the last railway to get down would start in 10 minutes. So yeah, we just were on the Kleine Scheidegg for 10 minutes! Because in the dale, nobody told us that it wouldn’t make sense to get up on the Kleine Scheidegg. Another flop in Switzerland! We payed again an enormous amount of money to be only 10 minutes up there, in the rain!