The second day in Zermatt we
took lifts up to the top of Kleine Matterhorn. It was a perfect day for the
trip, clear and hot. Let’s go up! It took
three trams to reach the top, the first two ending in Alps villages, the last
ending at the top of Kleine Matterhorn a place of snow, glaciers and rock. Through a tunnel and up an elevator was the
top of Kleine Matterhorn, ahead was the glacier. We chose the sun, the view and the snow first. There were great and views into Italy and
the Mattherhorn, but it looked much smaller from this high. Across the glacier were ice caves, carved
into the ice, with exhibits about glaciers, ice carvings and such. We headed back to the tunnel, up the
elevator and out to the viewing platform on Kleine Matterhorn, with more
astonishing views.
This was a more touristy day
than some we had done, and there were some “characters” around. One 60-year-old
guy with dyed blond hair and an African woman crawling all over each other,
doing some heavy petting all the way up and down the trams. Then going down, a flashy and very loud
Taiwanese guy, strutting around the tram like a rooster, laughing jovially in
his designer clothes and leather jacket.
On the way down we got off
at the second to the last tram station, and hike down. Another beautiful hike
from the alps down to the rural land surrounding Zermatt and into Zermatt. Helicopters were flying overhead the entire
time, hauling buckets of concrete up to a tower under construction, a new lift
was to open that fall.
Kleine Matterhorn Photo Gallery-Lifts to Kleine Matterhorn, views of glacier and Matterhorn