Just last sunday, we did cycling with the rest around Zurichsee and it was really fun though pretty dangerous since we had to go through all the traffic and cars and whatnot. Worse thing was the bike sizes are all standardized, so imagine me riding the same bike as dear's. My legs couldn't even tough the floor when i'm on the bike! We had Teddy as our tourguide, and he brought us through all the busy traffic to zurich lake. The weather that day was pretty nice, and it felt really good cycling down the busy old town of Zurich. And the best thing was that it was free! You can rent a bike for free here, anytime!
Yesterday, both of us headed down to Langnau, where we went to visit the Nature park. It was enriching and exciting. We managed to see mountain goats (huge ones), wild boar, wildcats munching on a fresh lamb leg, real wolves, fox, moose, deers, horses, wicent etc. And again, entrance to the park is free! :) :) So it felt like we were in a zoo for free. It's really nice, mainly because the park was totally natural on the mountain, and not like the man-mades ones we have like our singapore zoo. The entire park is hugge, and we walked quite a fair bit up and down the slopes. By the time we finished visiting the park, it was 2pm. So, we headed to start our hiking trails by taking the train down to Horgen.
The routes:
1. Aabachtobel Forest Educational Trail, waterfall
Bus stop Käpfnach - Käpfnerweg - Rietwiesstrasse - Dow - Eichenbänkli - Aabachtobel - Wasserfall - Bus stop Arn
2. Horgenberg mountain pond, swimming, barbecueing
Postauto bus stop Enderholz - Horgenberg mountain pond – Post Horgenberg
The 1st hiking trail was the best thing that we had ever experienced here. We went through the forest, with hardly any guide for us...we had no maps, so we just had to follow our intuition hehe. Pretty dangerous actually, but since we were heading to the waterfall, we just had to follow the river streams and go upstream. It was so fun, cos both of us went down the muddy slopes to the river stream itself. We were so excited, and it was really rewarding esp when we ended up at the waterfall....the beauty we saw in the forest took away all the physical tiredness we had. Truly rewarding! Do wait for the photos! The waterfall is just a mini one...but still, it's natural! haha. The entire route probably took us about 2 hours, thereabout.
Still having some time, we decided to go for our 2nd hiking route. This one wasn't as exciting. It was more challenging than anything else, cos there were too many alternative routes, and there were many logging paths as well...so we don't really know which is the right way. We just kept walking and walking, in search of the mountain pond...but all that we saw was a huge depression in the midst of the mountain, covered with snow. There wasn't any water or ice at all. So we figured that this route has probably been abandoned already. Anyway, to cut the long story short, we couldn't find our way out...so we just had to walk down the 30 degrees inclined pasture slope, and end up at the main road so we could find the nearest busstop. This hike was terribly exhausting...cos it was muddy and full of horse shit. We just had to keep looking at our paths, and kept walking and walking until we gave up finding the right path haha. So anyhow, we managed to get to the road after stepping lots of cowdung, cos the entire pasture slope smelt as smelly as cow dung. After walking along the road for several minutes, we managed to see a busstop and guess what, we were just in time for the last bus! I can't imagine being stranded there if we missed that last bus. Really thank God for guiding us safely through our entire hiking encounter.
We were both dead tired by the time we got back, and could barely walk. Nevertheless, the experience we had was once-in-a-lifetime! :)
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