Posts tagged “Zermatt

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With some apologies, I’m going to throw a large post with a ton of photos at you. These are all the remaining photos that I took during my trip on the very expensive but quite remarkable Gornergrat Bahn, which connects from Zermatt in the valley below, to Gornergrat where (one of?) the highest hotels in the alps sits on a rocky ridge with views to the Gorner Glacier and more. Truly, I edited the photos down but felt each of the many I’m still sharing with you explores a different aspect of this particular journey and afternoon. Or maybe I just want to show lots of photos to make myself feel I got a lot out of the trip, given that the ticket was more expensive than what I’d pay to go from A’dam to Brussels…


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Last of the photos taken while dangling in a gondola on my way up to the Little Matterhorn and Glacier Paradise on November 1st :-). Definitely not yet the last of our Zermatt photos, which I am in fact still paring down for quality and duplication-reduction reasons. But you gotta admit, it’s a pretty spectacular region, eh?


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The stream above gets channeled into the pond below, and I believe becomes part of the water source for surrounding villages including Zermatt. But not sure.


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More from the first morning’s exploration of the slopes between the town of Zermatt and the Matterhorn. Only the bottom image here shows the Matterhorn itself b/c the other four photos were looking north, back down-valley, as I climbed up towards the hanging bridge over the creek that created the valley.

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Taken as the Gondola swung towards its doc up at the top of what they call, I believe, the “Little Matterhorn” which is the highest gondola station or in the alps, or maybe the only year-round skiing option in the alps, or something of that sort. (I could verify it all in guidebooks or online, but will leave readers to do so if you choose.) Suffice for now to say these three photos were all taken while swinging in a different kind of metal enclosure in mid-air 🙂 en route to another high point looking at the alps – and yes, that’s the real Matterhorn again to the left of the left line of cables.

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Though Zermatt’s best known for its Matterhorn, and Ticino for its lakes I think – a wee reminder that both cantons have both lakes and mountains :-). This aptly-named Green Lake (Gruensee) sits on the “Five Lakes Walk,” part of which I walked on my way down from the first station above Zermatt itself, coming down from what I showed you last post :-).

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So I told two Swiss friends (during text chats conducted as I walked along the shores of another stunning arm of this lovely neighbor lake) that Switzerland has officially annoyed me in the way that a vegetarian restaurant annoys me: too many irresistible options. Those texts were about where I’ll go next – and these shots just share more. Everywhere one turns here, one just sees more lovely things to photograph. In the gallery below are two photos shot from moving trains en route to Zermatt, plus three including the bottom panorama taken from the balcony of the place I stayed in. Impossible to do anything other than gawk out train windows around here, if it’s daylight.

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In case anyone’s trying to follow along, these are all taken looking away from the Matterhorn, i.e. looking north to the village of Zermatt and the mountains north and east of the Matterhorn across one or more valleys. And all from that first morning hike last Tuesday – I really am deleting a lot of photos, but everywhere one turns around here, one sees beauty and I do love to enjoy and share beauty, as my small but loyal band of readers knows :-).