My absolute favorite weekend so far (and probably the whole trip) was when we spent the 4-day weekend in Interlaken, Switzerland. It was so beautiful and even better than I could have imagined!
...Life-size chess boards...
...Viscious cows...
...and best of all, canyoning. Andy and I decided to split off from the group and do the 'intense' canyoning. Apparently it's as good as it gets in Switzerland. Our guides were awesome, and very good at reassuring us beforehand:
We saw a lot of beautiful landscapes...
...Lakes...
...Mountains...
...Chocolate....
...Famous hostels (ours)...
...New buddies from said hostel (back right)...
...Life-size chess boards...
...Dangerous cliffsides....
...Viscious cows...
...and best of all, canyoning. Andy and I decided to split off from the group and do the 'intense' canyoning. Apparently it's as good as it gets in Switzerland. Our guides were awesome, and very good at reassuring us beforehand:
Allie: "So, can you do canyoning other places in the world?"
Guide: "Not most places, except Austrialia. Definitely not the States. There are big insurance issues elsewhere with commerical canyoning. You definitely picked the best one."
and during:
Guide: "Alright. This is an easy jump. It's only about an 8m drop. Just don't land to close to the waterfall or you'll get pinned to the bottom. Don't go too far to the right either, though, because there's a huge rock there. So just land somewhere down there in the middle. Ready? 3...2...1... "
[You HAD to jump on 1]. I think I've been conditioned to do stuff on countdowns, now. I've tried it with homework -- it actually works!
In order to save 100 bucks on a video, I'm just going to direct you to the videos of a billion other people who did the same thing. Just imagine each of these people with a ponytail sticking out behind:
The wetsuits were amazingly comfortable, and the padding all over the suit definitely came in handy (though didn't help with our elbows on the corkscrew slide). If you ever go to Interlaken, DO THIS! The only thing I regret not doing is canyon-jumping, but we didn't have much time and it was a lot of money for a few minutes of adrenaline.
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