Switzerland & Liechtenstein: East Region

📌 We started the day heading to Zermatt, a car free town that builds it's own electric cars and sustains itself, however it is most famous for the Matterhorn or the Toblerone mountain. The clouds were surrounding the Matterhorn so we decided to wander the town, have a coffee and relax instead of hiking. We also tuned in to the Brisbane vs Geelong prelim which was an insane finish!

📌 We were heading more east so we had to travel over a few alpine passes, the furka pass was one of these, one of the most picturesque passes in the world that has featured in a few movies including James Bond. The pass was beautiful and also anxiety inducing for Chloe as the roads were quite narrow and with very steep edges with little barriers.

📌 The next day we headed to Pizol, a local mountain of the area that had some cool hiking, we headed up on the ski lifts but found out the whole trail was closed. We were still able to hike to the highest point to see a few of the lakes, it was quite a snowy path but it meant the views and the lakes were very beautiful. It was a tough descent down, sometimes we chose to slide rather then walk as it was easier ☺️

📌 Since we had half a day, we decided to head to Liechtenstein, a small monarchical country between Germany, Switzerland and Austria that was about 15 minutes from our accommodation. It was bizarre to enter such a small country where the king still lives in the royal Castle on the hill. We got a souvenir, wandered around the quietest capital city ever and had an ice cream. Overall an interesting little detour.もっと詳しく