Les Marecottes
After exploring the town of Salvan yesterday, today's plan was to go to the nearby Les Marecottes region and ride the cable car ("telecabin")to the restaurant at the top, where we'd enjoy a buffet lunch. Here you see a cable car approaching the top station.
Compared to the 80-passenger cable cars we rode on the Männlichen lift, today's 4-passenger cars seemed like an amusement park ride. They don't even stop for passengers to get in—you just jump is as they move slowly through the station. Here you see Joanne waiting to join Jack as the car swings around the boarding area. I hopped in last.
In the video you see the Rhone Valley between the mountains, and maybe the Matterhorn (Joanne & Jack discuss whether they can see it or not—I never was sure what they were looking at).
You also get a sense of the relative roughness of the small cable car as it goes over one of the towers. On the big cable cars these transitions are much smoother.
The start of the day: dawn over the Rhone Valley.
Amtrak could learn a bit on how to make train travel more enjoyable from this Swiss train station.
In fairness I need to point out that not all Swiss stations are this picturesque—some are pretty darn plain. But because this is a major tourist area and the station contains a tourist information office they paid extra attention to its appearance.
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