We Went Hiking in the Mountains of Switzerland
We accidentally caused an accident.
One of the most incredible things I saw in Switzerland was that everyone practiced some kind of sport. I wonder if everybody is extremely healthy there. Hiking, skiing, mountain biking… It doesn't matter how old you are, practicing sports is a must if you're there. I saw kids and elders hiking as this was as natural as eating or sleeping.
This is another one of my pieces where I have the mission of telling the story of the best trip I have ever had. My wife and I went to Zermatt, a cute small town in Switzerland that looks like a movie set. It is that perfect.
The idea
One more day waking up to the Matterhorn outside my window. I don't think I have ever felt so good opening my eyes after a good night's sleep since my trip to Switzerland. My window was sided to the giant Toblerone mountain and that was so peaceful.
I imagine that this is how Heaven must look like. You wake up, take a look outside your window and you see that huge mountain. Its glory and beauty just make you speechless. It feels like The Matterhorn rules the town and nobody has the courage to go against it. The ones that did are remembered in several places around town.
My wife and I got up, took a shower, and went straight downstairs to have breakfast in the great hotel we were staying in. I still remember the delicious coffee with scrambled eggs, sausage, and roasted tomatoes. I had the same thing for breakfast the whole week we stayed there.
This was one of the first days we had there and we wanted to explore everything but not the city itself. We wanted a little bit of nature — the city is already extremely green — but we wanted raw nature, and that was the perfect place for that.
We talked to the crew in our hotel and they had a hiking lunch package that was offered to visitors who wanted to explore the mountains. That was just what we were looking for. We left at 9 a.m and had no idea what time we would be back, so we needed to have our provisions.
Our idea was to go up the hiking trails so we could find astonishing views and just enjoy nature. Well, we were numb from so much beauty in a place.
The accident
Not everything was perfect though.
While we were going up, there were several ways for us to follow and we hadn't quite figured out the tracking laws of the mountain yet. At one point we started walking on the path of the cyclers and that's when it happened.
We saw a guy coming down from a distance and we took a few minutes to understand that we were on his way. Once we figured it out we tried to move but it was too late for him to brake and he had to diverge from his direction. The result was him falling off his bike and adverting us politely to stay out of the bike trails.
He got up and went on his way. Thank God he was fine and we felt so bad and embarrassed that it was hard for us to apologize. He also got back on the bike and left pretty fast. We left Brazil and almost killed someone in Switzerland, that's crazy, isn't it?
Sadly we don't have any pictures from this moment, we were in a bit of a shock to even think about getting the camera, or our cell phones.
The reflection of the mountain
We started to get a bit tired from hiking. We had been walking for a couple of hours and we still didn't know what we were going to find. All the signs showed us that there was a restaurant a few kilometers ahead.
So we thought if there is a restaurant, there will be people or a place for us to sit and eat our lunch — we were hungry. My wife also knew that there was a place where we could see the reflection of the mountain on the lake. That became our goal, we wanted to find the lake and get our picture.
The hunger was getting bigger and bigger, and we also started talking about the trip back to the hotel. It was a long way I mean, we had walked for almost 3 hours already. That time would be the same if we came back following the same path.
When things started to get really tiring we finally found the restaurant, and suddenly our strength was renewed. Not only did we found the restaurant, but we also found the lake and with it, the reflection on the mountain.
The train in the ground and the trip back home
We ate our lunch package and it was so delicious. It was a great sandwich, a bottle of water, fruit, and chocolate to gather our strength for the journey back.
At this point, we were still confident in our hiking skills to go back the same way but that was destroyed when we saw a train station that would get us back to Zermatt in 10 minutes.
It was an underground train that would cut through the mountains with speed and adventure but it was a bit expensive. It's interesting how our human minds work, isn't it? We started to think of how much we could still enjoy in the afternoon walking around the city and checking out some coffee shops we wanted if we would only spend a couple more bucks.
That's what we did. We paid to go back to the town by train and it was fun, a bit scary walking on a vertical train though. It was almost like an elevator but it was inside a mountain. Isn't that crazy? It was for us.
Thank you for reading.
If you want to read more of my Switzerland series, check out the following articles:
- Switzerland — The Most Wonderful Place on Earth
- Switzerland and the Toblerone City of Zermatt
- Switzerland and the Best Pasta I Have Ever Had
- We Walked Around Switzerland Dressed As Bride and Groom
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