Europe trip Day 1

We landed in Zurich with our first views of the Swiss Alps from the plane ! Very beautiful & breathtaking! After collecting our bags we headed towards Hertz to collect our rental car. Our plan was to drive to Engelberg which is the village at the base of Mt.Titlis. Its 1.5 hr drive from Zurich & the drive was very scenic. At the base of Mt. Titlis we were greeted by an Indian food cart, so we decided to pack up some food for lunch to eat at the top of the mountain. We had got Half Fare Cards from the airport, so our Mt.Titlis passes ended up being for 82CHF for both of us & Vedika was considered free. From there the ride upto top of the mountain took us around 45 mins with changing 3 gondolas(cable cars). the 1st one was from Engelberg- Trubsee where we could sit in the gondola. The peak season had still not started so we got our private gondola, otherwise it sits around 6 people & I guess during peak season they would be going full !
From Trubsee we changed into another gondola..in which we had to stand.This cable car can hold upto 80 people & it was full on our ride back down ! The 3rd gondola is the famous Rotair which is the first revolving gondola of the world ! It gives a round view panoroma to the top ! Vedika enjoyed riding on this one. She was excited when it started revolving.
Once on the top, the 1st thing we saw was a huge poster of Kajol & Shahrukh Khan from their movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge ! & then Vedika & I had to pose to in front of it for pictures ! We headed to play in the snow for sometime :).It was exciting to see soooo much snow...make snowmen & snowangels. Vedika had fun sliding in the snow !! We headed to the snow park on Ice Flyer for some more playing. Riding on the Ice flyer was exciting & a little bit scary too...but totally breathtaking views of the Alps !!We did snowtubing & snow-sledging. Our first time doing both ! Was exciting & fun fun fun ! After playing soo much..we were tired..so we headed back to the main station. We enjoyed eating our Indian lunch of samosa & vada paav 10,000 ft above ground ! On full stomachs we headed down to the base again. A 7-8hr journey to Florence, Italy was awaiting us. With a cup of hot chai we started our drive. Our jetlag & playing soo much in the snow was catching up on us...the drive felt very looooonnnggg...as we were tired & had to take frequent stops to refresh ourselves ! But couldnt wait to get to Florence, our most beloved city :)