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Monday, May 12, 2008

Mount Titlis

On the 10th May 2008, Faridah, Zul, Baby Firdaus, Lyn and  myself went to Mount Titlis. It is located in the canton of Obwalden which is about 2 hours journey by train. We took a train from Brugg to Zürich where we switched train to Luzern (or Lucerne in English). We again changed train to Engelberg which is the last stop at 1,015m before proceeding to snow capped top of Mount Titlis using the cable car system. All of us got the Tageskarte which is a day pass to use all of the transportation system under the SBB. It is considerably a lot cheaper than getting a return ticket to Engelberg. The railway system is really efficient here. Rarely we need to wait at the gleis (platform) to switch trains. It is operated by Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Swiss Federal Railways). By the way, the SBB CFF FFS you see in the picture means German: SBB, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen; French: CFF, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses; Italian: FFS, Ferrovie federali svizzere (they speak German on the east side of Switzerland, French to the west and Italian to the south).

In Luzern, before getting to another train to Engelberg.

Baby Firdaus, Zul and Faridah posing for a photo :)

The route from Luzern. There are 2 routes, to Engelberg and Interlaken.

Moments before getting our tickets to the cable cars.

Engelberg, at 1015 meters.

The first stop at Trübsee, before continuing to Jochpass and to the peak, Titlis.


The Rotair, the revolving cable car to Titlis. You can get 360° view! 

Lyn and Faridah relaxing after throwing snowballs at each other.


View from Titlis



Me at Titlis, 3020 meters above sea level, overlooking Engelberg behind me. The temperature was about -3°C.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi
did you bring your baby to the top of the mountain ?

I am planning to have a Europe tour with my 9 months baby and one of the place we will visit is mt. titlis.



kindly info.

thanks

Zaid said...

Hi,

My baby was born about a year after the Swiss trip.

Basically its safe to bring your baby with you as I found in a link:
http://www.babycenter.com/404_is-it-safe-to-travel-at-high-altitudes-with-a-young-child_2295.bc

Hafe a nice trip! :)

Anonymous said...

Hi,

Baby Firdaus in your picture took a trip with you and your group, right?

Did you (or Zul and Farida) took the baby Firdaus to top of mt. titlis?

Thanks.