Switzerland videos

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Gastental

This valley is less well known and is the only gravel road I've seen yet in Switzerland. It is narrow so only one-way at a time: there is a 20 minute slot on the hour for going in and a similar one on the half-hour for returning.

The road is embedded in the rock

And here is a short video of the road out ...

Grimsel Pass

This pass over into southern Switzerland (towards Brig) is 2165m high and a classic hairpin bend alpine climb. Lots of cyclists and motorcyclists out for a sunny day. A usual there is a restaurant or two at the top. There are lots of hydro dams up here. We took a side trip form the top (another one-way road) into a hydro dam which gets its water from a glacier at the end of the lake. We managed a picnic in the sun at the lakeside and saw some Marmots wandering around. Here is a longer video of the journey in (you may want to skip through it a bit) ...

Grindelwald

A classic Swiss alpine town due to the wonderful location - snuggled beneath the north face of the Eiger with the Monch and the Jungfrau close at hand. There are numerous cable cars, gondolas and trains heading up to various vantage points including a couple of villages higher up that have no road access. It is also famous as the starting point for the railway that heads up through the middle of the Eiger to nearly the summit of the Jungfrau. Here is a very short video of some of the mountains.