Tag: Nature
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Five-Lake hike at Pizol, Glarus.
First Lake: Wildsee Disclaimer: Although this is a five-lake hike, we saw only 4 lakes. I will explain why we didn’t see the fifth lake. Info: We started our travel with Pizolbahn in Wangs. From Wangs, we took a cable car to Furt. From Furt, we took a ski lift/chair lift to Gaffia. From Gaffia,…
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Braunwald – Glarus, Switzerland
One funicular and a cable car, we reached Grotzenbüel. We did the panorama hiking trail in Braunwald. It’s fairly easy and family friendly. The landscape was amazing that day. Meadow blooming in all it’s glory. In the morning, the skies were so blue and clear. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. Info: There are…
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Secret Life of Atzmännig
Destination: Atzmännig Time: ca. 1 – 2 hours I took these pictures when we were on our HalloxChasingWaterfalls streak. It was an impromptu trip. We wanted to go hiking but plans changed and we went to Atzmännig instead. We were here a few times before – to look for gold. Well, did we find any?…
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Spitzmeilenhütte – Glarus, Switzerland.
Starting: Maschgenkamm 2007m Destination: Spitzmeilenhütte 2087m Distance: ca. 20 km Elevation: ca. 80m Time: ca. 9:00:00 I am writing this throwback post on the first day of Autumn (I presume!) because apparently yesterday was the last sunny day of Summer. We went to Spitzmeilenhütte again two weeks ago. The last time I was there, I…
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Rehalp Zürich to Meilen (with Printable Map)
Destination: Meilen (1703 m) – Starting point: Rehalp (1273 m) – Elevation: est 207 m – Distance: est. 13.1 km – Duration: est. 5.02 hours | Moving time: 3.18 hours This is definitely an overdue post. This is suppose to be published on Easter Monday because we didn’t have any plans for the long weekend.…
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Day 1: Maggiatal / Valle Maggia – Ticino, Switzerland.
Destination: Broglio-Menzonio-Broglio Rundweg – Elevation: est 302 m – Distance: est. 7.5 km – Duration: est. 3 hours >> READ: DAY 2 | DAY 3 << 16TH – 18TH APRIL, 2017. This was a spontaneous trip. On the week of Easter, Herr Hallo came home and asked me if I would like to go to…
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Bernina Express across the Swiss Alps
If somebody, anybody ask me what to do or where to visit when they are in Switzerland, I would always suggest to take the Bernina Express panoramic train across Swiss Alps if their budget permits. The price is on the high side but trust me, it’s worth it. There is no better way to travel…
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FREEZING BUBBLES AT SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURE
This morning, all my social media accounts were filled with Valentine related post. It’s the day of love or some of my friends called it capitalism day of love because this special day is lucrative for businesses. Flowers, jewelries, dinners to name a few are selling like hot cakes. Here I am, sitting in my…
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Winter Wonderland in Switzerland
NATURE WINTER WONDERLAND 4TH JANUARY, 2017. This will be a not very short write up with some pictures of winter in Switzerland or more like winter near our place. I do have a love and hate relationship with winter. I can be sure that I like the second half of spring, the cool part of…
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Autumn in Switzerland
I’ve said it countless time and I’ll say it again – AUTUMN is my favourite season. Autumn this year is more significant because when I left Switzerland in early October, the landscape looked pretty much still in Summer despite the temperature was dropping. I had three weeks of Malaysian landscape and as soon as I…