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| The stunning view from Mount Titlis |
We began our day by lunching at yet another pricy Swiss restaurant. We skipped breakfast because it’s just too much money! We made a
quick shopping trip to the train station, and I bought an ugly sweater solely
because I needed it and didn’t pack enough warm clothing. After buying our
large diet cokes (in true American style), we were picked up a by a giant, very
multicultural 2-story tour bus. The bus took us out to Mount Titlis (pronounced
Tit-Less, go ahead and laugh now), which was a 1 hour drive away from Lucerne to the city of Engelberg.
On the way there, Rachel and I slept and my mom had anxiety about the heights
she’d have to be dealing with.
Once we arrived, we took a gondola up the lower mountains.
It was dangling rather precariously and I wasn’t the biggest fan of it myself.
Once we arrived to a certain point, we all got out and got onto a revolving
cable car. Each car held about 40 people, and it would spin while you were
going up the mountain so that you could see all of the views. During this time,
Maryann was flipping out. She stood in the middle with her eyes closed, it was
pretty funny actually. While on the cable car, we started chatted with a solo traveler
from our group named Yvonne. She’s from New York but was in Europe to visit her
family in Slovakia. She was by herself, so we ended up spending the day with
her. I hope she enjoyed the company! Once we arrived to the peak of the
mountain, we were instantly walking on snow. It’s a bit strange to see snow in
July, but I loved it!
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| Top of Mount Titlis |
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| Standing on a glacier |
The first thing we decided to do was take a small chairlift
called “The Ice Glider” that goes over a glacier. You could see deep down into
the glacial crevasses, which was cool, but it was also a bit scary to be
dangling over it. When we got to the bottom of the glacier they had sleds that
you could ride down a portion of it. Rachel, Yvonne, and I did this, but it
didn’t turn out so well. Our sleds sort of crashed so we ended up having snow
all over us, and wet jeans are no fun. After that, we headed back up to the
main terrace on the mountain peak and enjoyed the spectacular views. It was
extremely beautiful, and very cool to see all of the glaciers and snow, but
somehow I still enjoyed yesterday’s views better. Titlis was a bit too crowded
with tourists and there wasn’t as much freedom in regards to where you could
hike around. Don’t get me wrong though, it was still amazing!
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| My new Swiss Swatch! |
Once our time at Titlis was up, we were back in downtown
Lucerne. Us three ladies decided to go on a little shopping spree. Rachel and I
ended up buying typical Swiss “Swatch” watches- I love mine!! Then, we walked
around and explored the medieval portion of the city and the bridge built in
1490. The one thing about the bridge was that it had all of these paintings on
the top panels, and each painting somehow had a skull incorporated into it. It
was a bit creepy for sure. For dinner, we ate at Pickwick’s British Pub solely because
it was “cheap-ish”. We got some of our beloved gelato and strolled the town at
sunset. As the sun was going down, we said goodbye to this beautiful Swiss
town.
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| Hanging out on a medieval bridge in Luzern |
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