Lauterbrunnen III: Alpabzug

We were sad that Rachel had just missed the Annecy alpage by one weekend. We had incredible luck, however, and got to witness an unexpected Alpabzug (also known as Almabtrieb in German speaking lands) in Lauterbrunnen!
























We then finished packing up and headed over to Interlaken for lunch. We happened upon this military band playing and stopped to listen for a bit.

Alpages at Annecy IX

Alpages at Annecy VI

Mooooooooo

We spent an entire day at Ballenberg walking the whole path. This is a great place that has buildings and animals representing all the areas of Switzerland (mostly historical). We happened to be there during the cow festival, so saw quite a few different kinds of cows.

All the pretty bells

On the walk to get to Ballenberg (the parking lot was a long ways away due to the amount of tourists there!), I snapped these shots.