Sunday March 20th, 2016
I had wanted to take it for a long time, but I never found the right time. Finally this year was the right one. Bernina’s red train climbs rapidly through alternating landscapes. From almost spring-like landscapes with green meadows and lakes to winter landscapes with white snow and frozen lakes. We take the train from Tirano to Morteratsch (a stop before St. Moritz) and here we walk through the snow-covered valley.
Morteratsch valley
It’s a pleasant walk, almost flat and not long (with snow, it takes less than 1 hour from the train stop to the end of the valley). I had been here a few years ago. At the end of the valley many things have changed. The icy cave in which one could enter no longer exists, disappeared with the melting of the glaciers. Now there is an ice wall (perhaps one of the cave walls a few years ago). Despite the changes, the landscape is still very beautiful and special.
The icy wall is really spectacular, you can go over it, or stay at the bottom. Anyway you can take wonderful pictures with the white-blue colours of the ice. But also the rest of the valley is beautiful: snow everywhere, a little river in the middle, green trees covered by snow. We had lunch near the icy wall, enjoying the sun. At the sun, it doesn’t seem too cold. Then we walked back to the train station when it was still early. Last time I came here, when the sun went behind the mountains and the valley was in the shadows, it was really cold, so this time we went back earlier.
I think I’ll be back again next year. We took again the red train to go back to Tirano (it’s a pity we couldn’t stop somewhere else), and before going home, we stopped for an hot chocolate.
