Moritz Kleine-SendrailGrowing excitement! Today I'm making use of my Berlin colleagues goodbye gift and taking the #GlacierExpress to #SanktMoritz!
Investigated the bathroom while in the #Furka Tunnel. Nice sink 😅
It's a loooong tunnel.
Steep climb after Andermatt towards #Nätschen. Very impressive.
Wow. Approaching the #Oberalppass, the highest point of the journey at over 2000m. With Hühnerfrikassee.
@diningcar Dessert is served in #Sedrun. The #Gotthard base tunnel runs below us.
#Disentis/Mustér - Rumantsch is the dominant language here, spoken by 75% of the local population. Interestingly, Portuguese immigration, mostly working in tourism, help to keep the language alive, as it's easier for them to learn than (Swiss) German.
#GlacierExpress gets another locomotive.
Slowly going downhill through #Grisons #Graubünden towards #Chur.
Never sure about how to pronounce the names of places in this area 😅
#Rheinschlucht - the Rhine gorges, swiss grand canyon 😉 (says the audio guide)
#Chur, capital of #Graubünden #Grisons. Many people getting off. We're making a U turn back to #Reichenau-Tamins before diverging to St. Moritz.
On this occasion I discover the partnership between #RhätischeBahn and the Japanese Hakone Tozan railway.
#Reichenau-#Tamins where the Rhines become THE #Rhine #Rhein.
Below us the track we came from. Now turning upside toward #Tiefencastel
And up up up through the Via Mala gorges.
#GlacierExpress
#Tiefencastel - tunnels are a good occasion to picture the interior of the train which is truly upscale.
...aaaand here we go, the #Landwasserviadukt of #Albula line.
At #Preda we leave the #Albula valley behind us, entering the tunnel that will link us with #Engadin.
#Spinas is named after my favourite vegetable.
#SanktMoritz terminus! I need to do some research to understand why this town was named after me so many years before I was born. Truly visionary. Hope you enjoyed the ride on the #GlacierExpress.
Wildduck@Moritz_Kleine merci pour le partage 😊
Tor Lillqvist@Moritz_Kleine Isn't Via Mala a specific other gorge (without a railway, but with a gorgeous walking path on the old road)?
Hiker@Moritz_Kleine Did you mention the 4th national language in Switzerland?
Mark Kristensson@Moritz_Kleine soon you’ll be in Bergün, which is amazing. If you can, do the sledding between Preda and Bergün, it was one of the most fun activities my family has done in years
@mkristensson @Moritz_Kleine It can also be fairly scary. Fail taking a curve, run into the snow edge (no injury, no problem as such), and fall off your toboggan. Then lie there laughing until you notice that better sledders run past at high speed, 10 cm from your head, with their metal-skidded monsters.
