Unfortunately our time in Interlaken consisted of cloudy weather so we were unable to see any mountains from the town (which lies at the foot of the Jungfrauhoch region between two glacial lakes). Nevertheless we did enjoy our time there. We shared a room with a girl from Dallas who was quite nice and she joined us on that Wednesday and Thursday as she had been traveling alone (midway through her 70 day vacation in Europe I might add).
Wednesday morning we decided to visit some local caves along Thunersee called St. Beatushölen. Located in a large hill there was a river running through the entire set of caves, which were not that high or wide, but fairly long. To be honest it was not particular impressive (especially comparing them to some caves in Luray, VA), but it was interesting to note that people were living in them. Also that the Saint Beatus was said to have defeated an evil dragon that lived there and afterwards took up residence in the caves themselves (they even had a model dragon to help tell this particular story).
After looking at the caves and going through the Hölenmuseen, which was cool because they talked about the groundwater and geology of the area...plus they had information on cave rescuing teams and how they did that.
Well my flight is getting ready to board in St. Petersburg so I better get going. My hostel there has free wifi so I can play catch up later today.
Wednesday morning we decided to visit some local caves along Thunersee called St. Beatushölen. Located in a large hill there was a river running through the entire set of caves, which were not that high or wide, but fairly long. To be honest it was not particular impressive (especially comparing them to some caves in Luray, VA), but it was interesting to note that people were living in them. Also that the Saint Beatus was said to have defeated an evil dragon that lived there and afterwards took up residence in the caves themselves (they even had a model dragon to help tell this particular story).
After looking at the caves and going through the Hölenmuseen, which was cool because they talked about the groundwater and geology of the area...plus they had information on cave rescuing teams and how they did that.
Well my flight is getting ready to board in St. Petersburg so I better get going. My hostel there has free wifi so I can play catch up later today.
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