VAN LIFE SWITZERLAND: Insider Tips & Unforgettable Adventure
pickle onion cheese exactly what kind of cheese is this it'ses the ol from Val you know the the glacier ol yeah and we have also little like C like this they make the cheese by themselves can I put you on video or no yeah whatever you want cool what is your name MIM Mimi yeah oh what a beautiful place thank you so all right all right so I got me some little cheese and potatoes and pickles and onions and uh what's cool is this is a little family-owned campsite and so the mom is the one who checked us in and the daughters work at the stands up here I've seen him kind of clipping some of the flowers and doing some of the little tiny maintenance around here so I'm sure one day they'll be running this place but this place right here at the foot of Vermont is just absolutely full of Camper vans vans as well as tents and so I just heard her saying they have one spot left for tonight you can't get here after 10: because it's quiet here after 10:00 so no more [Music] noise so one one of the things that I've heard every almost everyone say is the Swiss or oon time don't be late for the trains and we are standing here at the gate which is supposed to open at 7:30 that says it's close for the ticket gate it's 7:35 5 minutes late which means we are going to miss the train because there's nobody here to sell us the tickets and uh well I guess we'll just have to wait 20 minutes cuz the Swiss trains are late and today is a big day we are taking you to the resort town of zerm and we're going to go see the most iconic mountain peak they have here in Switzerland it's called the matter horn we got to take a couple of trains to get to what we hope is going to be an amazing view now we're going to get glimpses of beautiful mountains on this train ride too but first things first we head to the city of zont we change trains and then we have to go a little bit farther it's going to be a fun day guys let's go so before we actually get into the city of zermat I want to take a minute and show you this cool new little flying camera that we got from hover a so first and foremost thanks to the people over at hover a for working with us on this video so if you follow our journey you you already know that Kurt is our drone pilot and he gets all the epic shots and you may be wondering why I never fly the Drone to be completely honest that thing has too many buttons controls and knobs and dials and scares the heck out of me I'm afraid I'd crash it or lose it immediately and I totally stress out but that is not the case with this tiny little flying camera the hover air X1 I am so excited to give it a try now the first thing is safety it's got four little blades but they are totally enclosed in this little cage that just folds up like this so it's safe to fly it close to you or even around other people it is so lightweight this thing is going to be a piece of cake it comes with an app which has a lot of features but one of my favorite things is you can literally fly this thing without an app without a controller every right here with these little touch buttons super easy you push a couple of buttons this thing literally takes off from the palm of your hand so there are five standard flight modes and I'm fixing to show you all of these but the first one is hover the second one is zoom out then there's follow orbit and bird's eye it also has some custom modes where they can add in new things as they develop them my favorite one that you use from the custom section right now is is the dolly track Dolly [Music] track zoom out [Music] follow [Music] 9 M bird [Music] eye now after you've flown this thing it's time to land it but don't worry that's not scary either there are a few ways you can do that it will know if you just stop and stand still for a few seconds it's going to come back to you you hold out the palm of your hand and it lands you can also give it some hand signals um where it's kind of like got a little smart app thing built in the one that I would probably use the most is if I don't want to wait the few seconds for it to land you can literally just cross your arms up over your head and that thing will come to you and then it just lands it is so intuitive and so easy I am absolutely in love with this thing I cannot wait to get into some places where it's not quite so windy up in the mountains and stuff and we can put this thing to use uh on my mini hikes when we're riding the the scooters the SLE follow us on the scooters it's um it's going to be epic so stay tuned in future videos you're going to start seeing a lot of footage coming from this little guy right here one more thing if you want to record your voice you can use the smartphone app and it will record on your phone and it has this built-in technology that will actually remove the sound of the prop so you can have this thing hovering in front of you and be recording and your phone will actually pick up the sound and the video when it comes time to download this stuff you can do it super easy on to social media with the app or if you're like us and you're going to use it in YouTube videos you just plug it into your laptop and it just Auto happens it's super simple so if you're like me and you want to be able to capture all the fun stuff going on in your life and share it with your friends and family or just pop up some cool videos on social media this is exactly what you need you'll find a link to be able to get your own hover air X1 in the description of this video so now let's get back to zermat and exploring these mountains all right welcome to zermat we are headed to gner which is a 125y old Cog wheel train that goes up the mountain now this thing's open year around and the hog wheel is one of the things that allows this train to go up a hill in any weather and so we're going to get up to some pretty cool Heights and some pretty cool views so pretty excited so we just bought our tickets to get up to a place called Roden Bon it's the second to the last stop on the Cog rail I bought a round trip ticket cuz I'll bring the train back down Kurt bought a one way because there's a good chance he may walk down and bring y'all by some beautiful Swiss Lakes but it was 85 Franks that's probably close to 93 95 us our first train ride from TSH where our Campground is T C to here in zont was uh 17 Franks for both of us and those are both round trip but that's with our half pass so things starting to pay for itself if you did did not watch our last video you may not understand why we had to bring the train up here and is cuz zont is a carfree town now you'll see these little battery operated golf cart looking buses going around but there's not really any cars here you cannot drive here so we drove as close as we could stayed at the perfect campsite and now we're up here where cars aren't allowed and we got to take trains so we' made it onto the Cog whe train I don't know exactly how far we have to drive up we're going to the second to the last stop uh the last stop is a little too high in elevation for my weak heart so we're not going to go all the way to the tippy top but I think that may be a good thing I think we may avoid some of the crowds right ctie that's the hope but more importantly we avoid the high altitude for snow and we get to go see this beautiful reflection Lake which is close enough for snow to get to and it has beautiful views of the matter horn which is the iconic Peak here so first a train ride up to the top well almost to the top a little Pro tip we learned doing our research for this is if you're taking this train up you're going to get the best views from the right hand side on your way up now the right hand side filled up quickly because that's not a secret everyone knows that but most of these people aren't going to walk you down to these Lakes we're going to show you so we're not too worried about the views from the train because we're going to take you to see better ones but if you're not going to do a hike up here on this train you want to do your best to be front in line and apparently from what we've heard sit on the right hand side so our train has just kind of randomly stopped some of the power went out o a worker's walking by some of the power went out in the train not all the power but like the lights went out and we actually went in Reverse for maybe 30 ft and stopped again we don't know what's going on I think we're broke down hopefully it's nothing because we are in a race against the clouds to get up there to see the matter horn all right maybe they'll get us going soon and it's not a big deal we're going to go over here Kurt Kurt we're going to go over here the guy pushing you this way so our train started back up and we went a little ways then it stopped again at the next train station and they've gotten us all off of that train said it has a technical difficulty and there's literally people getting on the tracks it's crazy but anyway another train should be coming to pick us up you back there C so it turns out snow is right our train broke down and uh we all had to get off at a stop and now we're waiting we're not sure what's going on I think we're waiting for the next train unfortunately the last train that left the station was full so I don't know how this is going to work out we'll see but we're standing the side of the mountain Waiting for a Train and up against the clouds coming in and covering up the matter horn cross your fingers guys all right it turns out that the next train came up but it was not a special train to help us get off get on and get up there they're squishing this all on to the next train we got lucky and got a seat well all we heard was the trains are always on time and Switzerland and we've had the ticket station was late and closed and now the train broke down they got us jammed in like sardines so we've been hearing some false rumors but we're almost to the top all right guys there are definitely prettier days for the matter horn I'm sure but we are grateful for the views that we have as always and so as we get down here closer to this reflection Lake the sun just popped out a little bit which is encouraging love to see see that thing come out and show this matter horn and all its beauty but look at this reflection guys we're still picking up a little bit it is really gorgeous special if I could only fly I would fly so high I would kiss the sky it be so so right so right so right if I could only fly I would fly so high I would kiss the sky it' be so so right so right so right [Music] this water is just so reflective up here and when you look at it flat like that you get almost a perfect mirror but yet it's like a turquoise water and it's pretty clear as well and we still have patches of snow up around here and it really doesn't even look like the snow's melting but Snow's goal was to make it down to the reflection leg and I think she's up the Annie right in front of us we have this amazing Glacier and I think she's going to be able to get to see it all right the main goal was to make the train right up here the secondary goal was to walk down to the reflection Lake the third goal which I didn't think I'd reach was to walk over here and look down on this beautiful Glacier and in the distance you can see the Sun how it's kind of just barely breaking through the cloud cover I don't know if it's coming through in the video but it has turned some of those snow covered mountains a golden pink color over here there's waterfalls where the Glaciers are melting just rushing down way in the distance which I don't think will show up there's some gondolas I think we're in one of the skiing capitals of the [Music] world there's Kurt down there taking a look at the glacier [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this right here guys is really epic wow Switzerland what a beautiful place huh I'm unbelievable slow walk back to the train so you guys look at this not only is their cool green moss growing on these rocks but tiny tiny little pink flowers so pretty up here now if you look right over here behind me we didn't get here any too soon our shots from the reflection Lake of the famous matter horn had a few clouds on it already but now that we come back from the glacier walk the matter horn is gone I consider us lucky now we just got to walk up this hill to the train station and I'll head back to zont where I'll probably have a hot chocolate and relax before heading back to Camp I think Kurt's taking y'all on a hike I don't know if he's ex decided exactly where yet who knows so it looks like Kurt's getting some expert advice yes one and I have half half buying a plane a plane ticket buying a train ticket to go a couple of stops down now me I'll go all the way down to zerm where we're going to find some hot chocolate for you guys now for those of you that are curious this is the roten Bowden stop it's the second to the last stop you can go farther up but this is 9,235 Ft or 2,8 15 M as high as I need to go with my heart all right we're on the train Kurt's got it figured out he's going to get off two stops from now I'm going to go all the way to the bottom we'll meet back up at the van it is another case of divide and conquer all right guys This Is Where I Leave snow we'll see you guys in a minute all right there goes snow and here goes Kurt and so it looks like this is going to be about a 2 and 1 half hour hike I believe almost I level over there that's where we're going I'm not sure we'll see but we're on the way one of the reasons why I came down a couple stops on the train there was because number one this drops me off in the forest it's always pretty to walk through the forest and up there we were above the tree line and basically I would have to just walk down through that sort of rocky area that we were just in except I would walk down through a different Valley and cross over that Valley and so this just looked like a more practical route and also for me possibly a bit more Scenic and you can see the little houses down below in the valley I believe those are ski lodges/ airbnbs uh some of them may be Shepherd's homes I'm not sure but probably most of them are Resort related and you can see there's just lifts going up everywhere around through here we have a nice little river crossing and it looks like they have a nice wooden bridge to cross what a beautiful little stream there was obviously some kind of huge rock slide through here and you can just see all the way down below us big giant Boulders and all the way up to the top of the mountains so this was clearly something that caved off years and years and years ago we get a gift our second river crossing and if you can see this water it just disappears Under The Boulders and flows down but we do kind of have to shimmy across a little bit so yeah nice little river crossing so mostly so far the trail has been pretty flat n than that racky spot pretty normal uh am going up a little bit right now moving kind of fast through here fortunate to get some sparse shade I don't think that's going to be the the case the whole way but it looks like we're at a Crossroads up here so let's make sure we go the right way all right so I made it all the way back down the Cog wheeel train after saying bye to Kurt my mountain goat and uh I walked a little bit through the big ski resort I'm going to call it a city it's not a typical ski Village it is big but I walked three or four blocks up the Main Street there a lot of watch shops you could by the famous Swiss army knife there was chocolate shops I peeled off into a cafe where I ended up having lunch uh had a kiche and a really good salad a coffee and a fresh squeezed orange juice so it was yummy it filled me up but it was 35 Franks which is going to be almost $40 for just a basic lunch but that's Switzerland For You especially here in zermat but now we are on the train that takes us from zont back down to Tash and Taj is the little train station town where the van is parked now Kurt has you somewhere still up there on the mountains and uh if you didn't watch the last video you might not know I overdid it a bit at our Lake hike at our last video so I did just about as much as I could do today I need to get to the van put my feet up and do a little bit more resting but Switzerland has not been a disappointment at all it's beautiful and if you're a skier if winter sports are your thing I truly think this sermont area is like a playground like a paradise like I think you can ski so many different basins and valleys and slopes and mountains and just ride around on gondolas and ski loves all over this place so if winter sports is your thing and you've never skied the Alps I think I'd look hard at the starmont area so let's go check on the kitties get back to our house and wait on Kurt all right I am going to sunega and so this way is down defendo Bach all right so we stay up here all right so this hike is basically turned into a road and I believe this is probably a road up to that Lodge right there to bring supplies up and nonetheless the trees are beautiful and some of them are all gnarled up all looking old and stuff happened to them maybe you guys know I don't know maybe some kind of disease or something but some of them are all twisted up and look really old and big all right another trail head going down I think it's going to final blach kind of down there there must be some stuff down there I'm going to keep going this way to Sea look at that beautiful River down below us and as you work up into these valleys it's inevitable that you're going to come to a river because all the water from this Valley has got to get out of here and it looks like this is the main river coming down from the valley but this as I said has ski lifts all over it now this one I don't believe is running right now and a lot of them aren't but you can still get some pretty good coverage on this mountain so here's a giant Gondola that goes up there I don't think this goes all the way up to the peak we were at but you can kind of get an idea of how big this place really is so we can't even see that area snow and I train to it's just on the other side over there and a lot of this is just skiable down through here you can take a lift up through here and there's pass and trails all the way down through here we're finally coming up to this River and we're coming up to another Crossroads let's make sure we're on the right Trail snow will be so crowd of me sunega we're 45 minutes away and I think we're probably going to have some uphill coming up pretty soon and I've been mentioning the color of the glaciers and the color of the water but look at the color of the stone it's also like a light blue with just a slight green Hue I call it kind of a slate color and it's kind of a soapy Stone kind of smooth not hard like a little bit of a soft surface ooh look at this guys this is a raging river right here and it looks like we have a little wooden pink plank bridge now I don't know without this wooden flank bridge if you'd be able to cross this thing the water's moving through here pretty fast how pretty is that all right let's not make a mistake here woo and now that we've wrapped around the valley and we're headed down the other way towards Vermont as we come back we can see the matter horn now you can see there's big giant clouds all around it so all we can see is the base so how thankful are we that we got to see a little bit on the way up in the train and then when we first got to refle ction Lake there was a few clouds dancing around it but wow a big difference a couple hours can make up here and one thing that's been really cool about this Trail is all these beautiful wild flowers and all through Austria and Italy and Slovenia we'd see these all over the place and feels like different regions have different flowers and some of them are unique more neque than others and anyway it just makes for a really colorful walk and then on top of it you've got the river and right down below us is some turquoise beautiful turquoise water and then look here guys we got some sheep some Swiss sheep uh and they've got the bells on [Music] what's up little buddy [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] how cool is that guys wow that's incredible I love to see sheep goats cows whatever but those sheep were special do you see how big and Woolly they were and they had these crazy little horns that went like straight outside their heads and but one thing about these sheep is they love to keep their face buried in the ground even when they're not eating they just kind of all kind of Tuck together maybe hiding maybe sleeping I don't know but in anyway they also had these black and white ones like kind of like spotted cows and they were so cool and their bangs were so long and Woolly they couldn't even see and then with the turquoise water in the background of the lake wow what an special experience and then if you look right up over there that's probably the shepherd and he's watching over the sheep and he's watching over everybody making sure everyone behaves and as we come around here even though the matter horn is not showing all our Glory we still have the beautiful Peak up into there and we can see some glaciers pushing down and I don't know if I've been able to see that from any other Viewpoint that we've had so far but there's several 4,000 meter Peaks up through here 10 12 I think one even goes up to 14,000 ft you guys can do the math but we're starting to get over by that little village that we saw look at that view guys wow I have to say I think this is one of the most stunning views on this hike obviously the glacier and the view from over there was amazing but from the hike I've been on the matter horn is just right there and you have all these other glaciers back there and you can see the color that I showed you earlier in the glaciers and right here on my right going down the slope we have those ski Villages or shepherd's houses I'm assuming they're ski Villages one last look before we turn up this hill on the final stretch and either there I have a couple options for my way down all right so there's a couple ways down you can go down the bicular which is like a train elevator so picture much bigger than the gondola but goes down at like 45° almost like an elevator that's one option not sure about the cost on on that the second option is these little pump pedal bikes so I don't think you uh I don't know so that's another option the third option is walk down I'm not going to walk down but I don't know about these bikes what do you guys think should I take one of those things down oh I just got some information on the bikes the bikes are1 18 Franks so about $20 to go down she said the ride down is about a 45 minute to an hour ride down there is no seat on these little bikes and uh well there's no pedals so you got to push with your foot so what do you guys think I think I need to go over here and have a drink and rest and think about it my energy is not at its peak all right guys here's lunch I think they call this rosty bacon I think is Speck o I think is egg but anyway it's like hash browns with bacon and egg which is like my favorite breakfast and I'm still not giving up Hope on the matter horns this little place has a beautiful view right there the matter horn I can see the trail that I just hiked so I'm going to feast and then I have a big decision do I take the focular down or do I take the bike all right guys I just finished up my lunch it was a tasty lunch and uh now I have to make the decision do I go down in the vernacular do I go down on the bikes I'm just curious what do you guys think I'm going to do leave it in the comments below all right I've made it back to Tash it's a little train station town it's got a few little restaurants several hotels through here little grocery stores Pizzeria and of course it's got our Campground maybe a third thir of a mile up here so it's not a bad home base it's probably a 20-minute train ride from here to zont might could save a little money by staying in this town rather than up in zont now the campsite is nothing fancy but this location is spoton there are other places through here but you're going to have to figure out how to get to the train station either a walk or a taxi but I would also tell you that during season High season you probably need to book an advance and I believe they have a two night minimum now they've got some showers and bathrooms built into the containers here again nothing fancy but it does the trick and they're really kind all right first things first let's get the door open for the kitties hi guys I'm coming around I'm coming in all right not sure what you guys chose got one more chance in the comments I'm going down in the bikes [Music] I used to be kind of same I used to act kind of normal I couldn't complain now it's never the same I found myself picking pieces of mas of brain look what You' done to me my Insanity oh baby hey I wish that I was a another so that maybe I will fall for you because you make me mad man and [Music] I all right I got to turn the bike in but that was the second option right there the binocular and I chose the bike and it was fun if you liked this video be sure to hit that thumbs up button it really helps us a lot and if you want to see more of our videos be sure to subscribe to our Channel and hit that notification Bell so you know when new videos come out we'll see you guys in a few days from somewhere out here in the world cheers
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