Thursday, August 25, 2011

Our road to the Wallis.

From Lauterbrunnen, my parents and I made our way to the Wallis. We decided to go up and over the Grimsel pass, which was quite an exciting drive!










Once we were over the Grimsel pass, we headed in the direction of the Furka Pass to see the Rhonegletscher and its ice grottoes.

View of the Grimsel Pass (right) and start of the Furka Pass (left).


Rhonegletscher!

The area under the white canvas holds the ice grottoes.






Ice grottoes.





I am quite sure that I will run out of superlatives to describe the scenery, but, rest assured, the glacier was ginormous and wild and quite beautiful. From there, we made our way down the valley and to Mühlebach, where we stayed in a 300-year-old Walliser house. Apparently people were quite a bit shorter 300 years ago?

Standing in one of the taller doorways.

1 comment:

Liz said...

The area around Rhonegletcher was quite wild and beautiful!