This podcast talks about my favorite trip that I went on while studying abroad, which was Switzerland. On the fist weekend of December, me and 14 of my friends who I met abroad all staying in an airbnb in Interlaken, Switzerland for the weekend. Our airbnb was in the heart of Interlaken so we had easy access to walk to everything. We could even see paraglider’s from outside our window.

We started the trip by flying into Zurich, and taking a train to Interlaken. When we got there, it was kind of a ghost town. There wasn’t many people there, since the winter season was just starting. On the first day, some of us went kayaking in Lake Thun, and some of us went hiking around Lake Brienz.

That night, we all cooked a pasta dinner in our airbnb and went out to Balmers, which is a hostel with a club attached to it. We saw some friends from Barcelona there too, as well as friends from my college at home that happened to be in Switzerland at the same time as us. The next day, some of the group went skiing in the Swiss alps, while the rest of us went paragliding. I was pretty nervous to go paragliding since I had never done it before. We took a bus all the way to the top of the mountain and then had to run off the mountain at the beginning of paragliding. Once in the air it was super relaxing, and so cool to see the city of Interlaken. The paragliding instructor was able to point out both Lake Thun and Lake Brienz while we where in the air, and we even got to do flips! It all lasted about 10 minutes, but it is an experience I will never forget.

My friends skiing in the Swiss alps

After paragliding, we went to lunch and got famous cheese fondue. It was so good! We ate it with bread, cheese, and pickles. This was my first time trying cheese fondue, I normally would get chocolate fondue but the cheese was better than I expected.

That night, we walked to Lake Thun to watch the sunset and even drank the lake water! The walk to lake Thun consisted of us seeing amazing landscape views.  I had heard my friends who kayaked saying that they where drinking the lake water and had to try it for myself. It defiantly tasked as if I was drinking straight from a water bottle.

The next day, we had to head back to Zurich for our flight. But before that we had to get some Swiss hot chocolate. We went to a place called Funky Chocolate Club, which is a popular tourist spot in Interlaken.

Finally, we took a train back to Zurich and got to see the christmas market before we headed to the airport.

Overall, this was my favorite trip because of how beautiful Switzerland was, the people I was with, and all of the fun activities that we all got to do.