Day 124 – 5. Oechinensee – Kandersteg – Germany

We slept pretty well in our bed for 6 with only two other guys and woke up at 7:30. It started raining outside during breakfast and we descended in light rain on an easy trekk to Kandersteg along the river and what is the skiing descent in winter. During the short hike, we could almost continuously hear the really loud stone avalanches falling down the neighboring mountain walls. The sound was impressive and somewhere between a jet aircraft, fireworks and thunder.

 

Down in Kandersteg, we waited for our train and caught a train, a bus and a cable car back to our car, where we arrived at 13:30.

After this, we took the car to the Trümmelbachfälle waterfalls, that we had been wanting to see for years but that are always closed in winter. These are the biggest mountain-interior waterfalls of the world, and also the only ones that can be visited. These falls transport all the melting water from the big glaciers on Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau.

A lift took us up into the mountain and we descended through narrow tunnels and stairs along the 10 stations of the waterfalls. The rock formations built by thousands of years of flowing and falling water, the water quantity and the noise were impressive.

We set off afterwards and drove for 5 or 6 hours to some friends of my parents in France close to the border and met my dad and some other friends of them there. In the end we arrived at home at 11:30, completely tired, messed up and hungry.

I'm Anna and I decided to leave everything behind and travel for a few months in order to reorganize my life.

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