Left Frutigen and drove towards Interlaken via Spiez and along the huge lake Thunersee. Past through Wilderswil where my sister went on a school trip 44 years ago! Headed then for Lautenbrunnen and drive through the valley with its sheer rock face mountains either side. Found our campsite (Rutti) in Stechelberg at the end of the valley. Packed up a quick picnic as it was still early and wanted to make the most of the sunny day. We walked to Lautenbrunnen (11km round trip) and stopped to watch the many paraglide r's coming into land- Our Jess & Edward have done this here when they were here last together. Got chatting to a guy who gave us all sorts of info about the area and Switerland in general. He was also an adrenaline junkie and has completed a thousand Base Jumps!!!! And went on to do the flying with the wing suit!!! But sold it as he realised the statistics were against him as he said each jump he always wanted to get closer to the rock face! Down the road a bit further we decided that this BASE jumping is unhealthy for us as after 20mins looking up watching out for them our necks were killing us!!!! Next minute whoosh - 2 came down close to us ( one certainly left it until the last minute to open his chute!!!) it was unbelievable. Walked then up a steep path to a lookout behind a waterfall which had great views across to Wengen. Arrived in Lautenbrunnen and called into a pub to use the wifi and have a beer of course. A young couple from Lancashire were working behind the bar and explained about the photo gallery on the wall of Base Jumpers hoe had died in the area!! At one stage there was 4 in one week!!!!!! The next picture is of a Base Jumper can u see him at about 2 O'clock? Started to head back then to Priscilla and stopped at Trummelbach Glacial Falls. Glad we did they were amazing. We took a funicular lift up to the top which went inside the mountain. The falls were deafening. The power and sight of this water and the rock formations were breathtaking. After this we came down and finally had our picnic lunch which turned into our dinner as it was nearly 6pm!!!! Another wonderful day in Switzerland.
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