The Third Day in Zurich

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Today was probably the most exciting day in Zurich so far.

First, after breakfast we went back to Uetliberg, and hiked from Kulm, the village with a TV tower and restaurant, to Felsenegg, with a cable car servie back to Zurich. One interesring part of the trail was the Planet Trail. The trail started at a model sun. A few meters after that, there was Mercury, then Venus, Earth, etc. What it actually is, is a scale model of our solar system. At the beginning of the trail, a semi-large sphere represents the sun. Along the trail to Felsenegg, aka the Planet Trail, small models represent the planets and their distance to scale. Pluto, a grain of sand, is at the end, in Felsenegg, after 5 km of hiking. If the trail was 1 billion times larger, it would be a copy of our solar system. In Felsenegg, a regular Cable Car service took us down to a train station that brought us back into the city. Looking at the map in the photo album will help.

After the hike, we visited Kulturama, a human history museum which displayed human evolution, a display on mummies, and a room full of human and animal biology exhibits. Although it was all in German, we were lucky to have a guide who wanted to practice her English, and gave us a free, private tour of the museum. What a treat it is to have a Zurich Card. On our way to lunch, we visited the church, the Grossmunster. For only 3 Swiss Francs, we climbed to the top, and took amazing pictures of Zurich for probably twenty minutes. After that, we found a little, relatively cheap place to lunch. We decided to go to the hotel after that, but we took another walk down Banhofstrasse and had some Italian Ice Cream. There, we observed the most ridiculous thing on the street. There was a blackberry, except the brand was Ferrari. It was priced at 10,500 Francs, or $10,000. From that point on, we just avoided walking Banhofstrasse again... :)

After resting at the hotel, we went to a Latino Music "Festival", but it was rather dissapointing as there was barely any live music, it was more like a street party, and a rainstorm broke up the crowds. Since we had some time, we went down to Lake Zurich for the last time, and took in the moment. Tomorrow, we will pack, visit a Museum of Design for about an hour, and then go on a train to Montreux and epxerience the Jazz Festival. I may not be able to blog for the next few days, so bye for now, and I hope you've enjoyed reading the blog thus far. After Montreux, we'll be going to the French Riviera, and Barcelona after that. I will surely miss Zurich as it was one of the best places in the world I've visited.

Notes:

Today's Picture Album is at http://picasaweb.google.com/GuitarGodAdamp/ZurichDay3

Be sure to check out the map as it gives you a sense of where the pictures were taken.