Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Part 3 (alot of photos.. will suck up bandwidth)

Spent our first day in Zurich just walking around town.

The next day my group decided to split from the rest of the group and we left Zurich for Luzern. Luzern/Lucerne is somewhere I've been wanting to go, but didn't have the chance to, so that was just perfect timing.

We left as a group and the bus dropped us off at the Bahnhofstrasse. We decided to catch the 1030am train and since we were there at 9-ish, we walked to Lake Zurich to feed the swans!

We brought along (extremely hard) bread from breakfast.

Lake Zurich in Winter is not as nice as in Summer.






Then we headed to the Hauptbahnhof to catch our train.



Luzern is pretty!













Of course we didn't miss the Lion of Luzern monument. It was built to remember when over 700 Swiss guards were killed during the French revolution while defending some palace. It was sad la, to say the least. That's why I think its ironic that when we take photo here, we smile. haha.



We got some brochure from the tourist info centre and decided to go up Mount Pilatus, because we were all getting frustrated that the weather wasn't cold enough for snow to start falling.

Took a bus from town to get to the foot of Mount Pilatus.



Then it was a 40min cable car ride up!





At the top of the mountain. Was pretty warm for a mountain peak too. It was only -1 Deg C.







We climbed up some stairs thing and met this guy at a hut up there. Guess what. He was from Singapore. Haha.

Then we decided to leave our mark on the hut!



We caught the last cable car down and by the time we reached Luzern town it was dark.



This was what--? 4pm?

The next day, we left for ETH Zurich! Ah..what a wonderful place. The Chemistry building was spanking new and just so aesthetically pleasing.

Had (free) lunch at their mensa.






Goofing around before we started the looooonnngggg research talks.

Our hostel in Zurich was very nice, but the location, however wasn't too cool because it was very far from downtown.



Unlike the Frankfurt and Heidelberg ones, this hostel didn't have attached toilets and the rooms were very small. We had a hard time trying to squeeze 4 opened luggages and all our barang-barangs.





But it was generally okay for a 2 nite stay. We cooked spaghetti at night.



And we were bound for Basel!

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