LOVELY Lauterbrunnen Switzerland

We are in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland today in the Jungfrau region near Interlaken. It's southwest of Lucerne and we're going to be exploring some beautiful waterfalls and some cool hikes today. There's a couple towns in this area which you can't actually even drive to. You can only take mass transit or you can park in a town like Lauterbrunnen and then hike up to them. So it's going to be an interesting day here in the Swiss Alps. So first up today, right when you drive into town you see Staubach Falls. This is the largest free-hanging waterfall in Switzerland. 297 meters. There's a trail that you can go up and behind the base there. So we're going to go check that out first. So they call this area the Valley of 72 Waterfalls and you can hike to pretty much most of them, if not all of them. I love when you can get behind it like this one. Get behind the waterfall and this next thing we're going to is kind of like a glacier snowmelt gorge. It has board like these awesome waterfalls. I think there's 10 of them in this gorge that you can hike up to. So absolutely loving it here in this section of Switzerland. You can hear the cowbells in the background. Sound like wind chimes. You can see Swissbach Falls here in the background and that actually shifted positions. In 1889 there was a major rock slide and caused the location of the waterfall to move by like 100 meters further south, which is pretty interesting. Up next we're hitting the Trommelbach Waterfalls and these are 10 glacier waterfalls inside the mountain. You take a tunnel car. It's kind of, I don't know what it is, like a tunnel cable car in and they're illuminated. They're glacier-fed waterfalls. It's a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site and these waterfalls drain the Eiger, Munk and Jungfrau glaciers and it's the last glacier-fed waterfalls inside a mountain that are still accessible in Europe. So the Trommelbach Waterfalls are actually private properties. You have to pay $11 a person to get in here but based on this little exit stream we're seeing it looks well worth the cost. Cool. So you can take the tunnel car up to the sixth waterfall and then walk up the rest to the tenth and then walk down all the way. So the wind from the glacier melt coming down this canyon right here is super cold but this is awesome. Trommelbach Falls, you can see it's kind of a touristy thing. They have this infrastructure built in with the car through the tunnel and then paved walkways and stairs and stuff. So not that adventurous but the good thing is, even though it's super touristy, it's the end of shoulder season right now and actually the whole area shuts down in about a week. This is actually the last week that this Trommelbach Falls and a lot of the areas around here are open until around Christmas time. So even though it's touristy, right now is the very end of the season, there's not that many people here. I can see it getting crowded. It's only $11. Some of the touristy things around here like the gondola rides and stuff can cost $100, $150 for a gondola ride. So in terms of touristy things, for $11, Trommelbach Falls is definitely worth it. You can see how the water over years and years has eroded that granite and cut that deep gorge into that stone and it's really a magnificent example of the power of the water and almost persistence or patience if you will. Just slowly, microns, microns of stone every year just slowly, slowly eroding those away leaving these beautiful rock formations inside this gorge here. Definitely worth $11 for sure and if you can come at the beginning of the season or right at the end of shoulder season like we are now, it's totally worth it. There's some people but it's not that crowded at all. Highly recommend it. Anywhere you turn here in this valley, it feels like you're in an epic painting or something and then in the middle of nowhere come across this vending machine which has like cheese and mushrooms and sausage and wine for sale, some soda too. So in the middle of your epic serene pastoral landscape, vending machine here for your convenience in case you want to have a picnic. Infamous.