Three Alpine Valleys

Leaving Montreux this morning, our develop climbed the mount wall to its eastward as well as crossed a split upwards via a long tunnel.  Exiting that tunnel, nosotros were inwards the wide watershed of the Saane River (or Sarine River inwards French).  Descending along 1 of its tributaries, nosotros enjoyed fabulous views of the high Alps to our south.  At Montbovon, nosotros joined the principal channel of the Sanne as well as followed it upstream equally far equally Gstaad, which sits inwards a beautiful alpine valley.  The Saane itself flows NNW from this area, eventually passing through Fribourg as well as entering the Aare River northwest of Bern.  Of interest, the Saane (or Sarine) but about marks the edge betwixt the French as well as High German linguistic regions of Switzerland.

From Gstaad, the develop climbed northward, leaving the watershed of the Saane as well as entering that of the Simme River.  After dejeuner as well as a alter of trains inwards Zweisimmen, nosotros followed the Simme downwards to the wide Valley of the Aare River, were it joins the Kander River earlier entering Lake Thun, but westward of Spiez.

H5N1 brusk journeying upwards the Aare Valley brought us to Interlaken West, a resort town that sits due north of a high wall of peaks; with these is the famous Eiger, 13,026 feet inwards elevation.  Tomorrow, nosotros excogitation to ascend to higher terrain via a train, motorbus as well as cable machine to savor views of those mountains as well as of the Aare Valley far below.