Because it’s the only way to get views like this…

Do click on the panoramic photos. If you don’t, you don’t know what you’re missing.

…It’s also one of the few chances one has to gawk and gasp at the loveliness of wild mountain flowers that come into full bloom in late spring…

…Lastly, it’s a great form of exercise.

Interlaken, here we come! Yes, if the weather is good, Nil and I will be hiking somewhere up in the mountains of the Interlaken (the ever famous Jungfrau) next weekend…