3888 x 2592 px | 32,9 x 21,9 cm | 13 x 8,6 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
28 giugno 2008
Ubicazione:
Interlake West Train Station, Switzerland
Altre informazioni:
The Interlake West train station, along with an arriving train and passengers waiting to get the train. This station is not as centrally located as the Interlaken East train, and for most people, this requires a bit of travel to reach. From this train station, you take the train that takes you to Jungfrau (there are a set of 3 trains that need to be taken before you can actually get to Jungfrau). We needed to wait for this train to pass before we got the train that would take us to Jungfrau. Interlaken is a small town in the Swiss canton of Bern. The town is actually the base station for a number of tourist attractions in the region - including lakes and mountains. The 2 lakes near the town including Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, with the river Aar that flows through the town and also flows between the 2 lakes. Interlaken can be traced back to medieval times, and has been a tourist center for the past 2 centuries or more, this trend increasing with the connectivity through steam ship over the lakes and through the connectivity of trains. The major tourist attraction of Interlaken is because it is the starting point for any trip to Jungfrau, the mountain resort reachable through a network of trains (a total of 3 trains, with the final route going through the mountain in a tunnel). In addition, the mountain peaks of Jungfrau, the Monch, and the Eiger are all accessible from Interlaken (through mountain climbing). In Interlaken, there are numerous hotels that provide amenities across the price chain; for those who want to take part in adventure sports, with some of the sports that are available including paragliding, skydiving, hang-gliding and skiing.