On Tuesday morning, I flew to Geneva and took a train to Bern where I spent the night. Bern is quite an underrated city. It has a very nice Old Town filled with cobblestone streets and magnificent architecture. It is a nice fusion between Italian, German, and French. I’m not sure why, but Bern has a large underground. There’s an entire mall built completely underground. In the Old Town, there are a lot of cellars/basements underneath the stores that they turned into more stores. It’s pretty cool thought. Bern is built on top of a hill and is actually surrounded by the Aare River so it basically has a moat, which is AWESOME. The river is very beautiful. One thing that Bern is very famous for is the Bear Pit, which no longer really a pit because of animal-rights activists groups. They have four bears in there, a mom, a dad, and two boys. The dad is separated from the other three though because apparently, he would kill the little ones. Overall, I really liked Bern, much more than I like Amsterdam and Brussels. I definitely recommend visiting it if you have the chance but the city is pretty small so a day here is more than enough.
One of the older buildings in the newer part of Bern
Church
Too foggy to see the Alps
For lazy people who don't want to walk
Swiss Government Buildng
Plaza in front of the Swiss Gov't Building
Front of the Swiss Gov't Building
Streets in the Old Town -- they have a thing for arches
On every block, there's a random fountain in the middle of the street
YUM
Zeitglockenturm
Zeitglockenturm
Bern's Biggest Church
They love bears
Aare River
Cellar store
Bear Pit
Baby bear born 2 years ago
View of Aare from the top of the Bear Pit
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