It’s another lovely day, so after lunch we decided to pop up to the Jungfraujoch. The ‘Joch’ is Switzerland’s most popular tourist attraction, and in pre-Covid times it got more than a million visitors per year. To get there we first need to catch the train to Kleine Scheidegg.

From Scheidegg another train takes us through a 7 kilometre long tunnel through the mountains. There’s a stop half way up so we can see the Challifirn glacier.

Eventually we arrive at the top.

The Jungfraujoch has lots of shops and restaurants, but our first priority is to get outside onto the snow.

There would normally be crowds of people here, but it’s late afternoon and most visitors have gone home. A few dozen people were out enjoying the snow.

The Jungfraujoch is home to the source of the Aletsch glacier. It’s the longest glacier in Europe, with a length of around 23 kilometres. Here it is, stretching off to the south of us.

Despite all this alpine magnificence however, our favourite part of a visit to the Jungfraujoch remains the Lindt chocolate shop. We filled a couple of bags from the pick ‘n mix before heading back to Wengen.