We woke up to a beautiful sunny day. Here’s our apartment and the view from apartment when it’s not overcast and raining!
We checked the webcam on Titlis and it looks great so we are headed there. We are leaving our lovely little apartment in Arth so we packed up and loaded everything into the car. We followed the gps’ directions to Titlis. We drove along the lake and I thought we were going over a bridge to get to the other side but it turned out to be a ferry. So we had a coffee and waited the 45 minutes for ferry. The ferry ride was about 20 minutes, a little chilly but the views were gorgeous.
Shortly after the ferry ride we made it to the base of Titlis. Titlis, 10,623 ft, is a mountain of the Uri Alps and is famous as the site of the world’s first rotating cable car. The Titlis Cliff Walk, the highest elevation suspension bridge in Europe, opened in December 2012. We took a gondola part way up the mountain and switched to the rotating cable car. The views were breathtaking and the views at the top were even more amazing. It was a perfect day and there were not a lot of people up there. We walked across the cliff walk. Surprisingly it was not that cold or windy although the bridge shook as people moved across it. There were people skiing and the slopes should remain open through at least the end of May. We had lunch in the restaurant at the top. Here are pictures.
We didn’t want to leave but we had to drive back to Irene’s house in Mettendorf. The gps told us it would take an hour and 45 minutes but it routed us through Zurich during rush hour so the drive took more like 3 hours. Irene was not home from work when we arrived in Mettendorf but arrived shortly thereafter. We enjoyed getting caught up over a glass of wine before having dinner at home.
JUST GORGEOUS!!!