The Most Perfect Country on the Planet | Switzerland
Summary
TLDRThe video documents a week-long trip through Switzerland, known as one of the most expensive yet awe-inspiring countries. It captures the adventures of two travelers as they road trip to cities like Interlaken and Grindelwald, highlighting popular activities like hiking up mountains, paragliding off cliffs, and speeding down on trotti bikes. They emphasize Switzerland's postcard-perfect landscapes with turquoise blue lakes and villages that resemble Disney sets. Despite the high costs, they conclude Switzerland lives up to being an ideal, fairytale country with top-notch quality across food, infrastructure, and engineering.
Takeaways
- 😊 Switzerland is praised for its clean water, beautiful landscapes, and high quality of life
- 💸 However, it is also one of the most expensive countries to visit
- 🚗 To save money, the travelers rented the cheapest car available at $180/day
- 😋 They sampled various Swiss delicacies like chocolate, cheese fondue, and beer mixes
- 🚠 They rode cable cars and trains to reach high mountain peaks across the country
- 🏔 At 11,000 feet, they were at the highest point in Europe on the Jungfraujoch
- 😱 They cycled down a mountain and went canyoning, rappelling down waterfalls for adventure
- 🛫 They paraglided off a mountain, admiring stunning aerial views on the way down
- 🏨 Accommodation prices varied greatly, from $300/night to more affordable options
- 👍 Overall, Switzerland met their expectations as an idyllic, fairy tale-esque destination
Q & A
Why is Switzerland so expensive?
-Switzerland is expensive mainly due to the high salaries and standards of living. The average salary is around $125,000 annually and the minimum wage is $25 per hour. This allows the Swiss to produce very high quality products and services.
What makes the water so blue in Lake Brienz?
-The turquoise blue color comes from minerals dissolved in the water from the glacial melt and rocks. This gives it a bright, vivid blue appearance.
How high is the highest point in Europe that they visit?
-They visit the Top of Europe, which is 11,000 feet high. At this elevation, you can see incredible panoramic views of the Alps.
What adventure activities do they partake in?
-They go trotti-biking (riding downhill on tricycles), canyoning through mountain rivers, cliff jumping into canyons, and paragliding off of mountains.
Why does the video creator make his friend Haley go first for many of the activities?
-Partly for safety reasons to test out the equipment, but he also admits it's a good excuse to avoid going first himself.
How much did a basic hotel room in Interlaken cost?
-In Interlaken, a basic hotel room shown in the video cost $300 USD per night.
What did they have for a typically expensive Swiss dinner?
-They had Swiss cheese fondue, which cost around $120 USD for two people.
How far did they rappel down the cliff?
-They rappelled down a 150-foot cliff to go canyoning through a canyon.
Why is Switzerland known for being neutral?
-Switzerland has a long history of neutrality in conflicts. They refrain from taking sides in wars, even if it means defending their borders aggressively.
What things does the video mention Switzerland ranks highly for?
-The video says Switzerland consistently ranks at the top for quality of life, most expensive country, cleanest water, and more.
Outlines
😍 Exploring the magical lands of Switzerland
The host starts their journey in Switzerland by driving through enchanting small towns. They highlight the expensive costs but worthwhile views and adventures including visiting Europe's most beautiful street, seeing unbelievably blue lakes, and learning some German phrases.
⛰️ Adventuring to the top of Europe
The host travels to Jungfraujoch, the highest point in Europe at 11,000 feet. They ride a tram up and visit an ice palace inside a glacier, experiencing freezing temperatures. The host plays tricks on their travel companion inside the cold, confined glacier.
🚴♂️ Mountain biking down trails in Grindelwald
The host goes mountain biking down trails in Grindelwald after taking a tram up a mountain. They fly down at high speeds and have to brake carefully. Afterwards, they try a traditional Swiss beer mixed with sprite.
🪂 Propelling off a cliff and canyoning
The host goes canyoning, which involves propelling off a 150-foot cliff into a canyon while wearing a wetsuit. Their travel companion goes first to test it out. Afterwards, they discuss running off a mountain to go paragliding.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Switzerland
💡landscapes
💡activities
💡views
💡elevations
💡prices
💡water
💡quality of life
💡neutrality
💡fairy tale
Highlights
Switzerland has been voted as having the most beautiful streets in Europe
The blue water in Lake Brienz is from snow melt and minerals giving it an incredible turquoise color
Switzerland has the cleanest drinking water, available from fountains around the country
The average salary in Switzerland is nearly $125,000 with the highest minimum wage at $25 per hour
Everything made in Switzerland is top quality - food, watches, trains due to Swiss engineering
A cheese fondue dinner for two with wine was $120 USD
Swiss trains and infrastructure are like a giant amusement park
The Jungfraujoch is the highest point in Europe at 11,000 feet with incredible views
Grindelwald has adventurous trotti-biking (tricycles) riding down the mountains
A Swiss beer mixed with Sprite is a traditional drink for people who don't like beer
Hotel rooms with views of waterfalls can be inexpensive outside main cities
Canyoning involves propelling down a 150 foot cliff and swimming through canyons
Paragliding involves running off a mountain with an expert guide and gliding down
Switzerland looks straight out of a Disney movie with adventures and landscapes
Switzerland is near perfect - beautiful country with highest quality of life
Transcripts
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switzerland is perfect from having the
cleanest water to the most unbelievable
landscapes
switzerland is a real life fairy tale
it's constantly at the top of the list
for having the country with the highest
quality of life but also the top of the
list for the most expensive on top of
all this switzerland is a neutral
country they don't pick sides in wars
and they remain peaceful by any means
necessary
even if that means they have to blow up
a bridge after traveling this magical
country for the past week i wanted to
share with you all what traveling the
most perfect country on the planet is
like
well hello guys from the wonderful lands
of switzerland so for the next week
we're going to be traveling around
switzerland and i am so excited the only
one thing that i'm not excited about is
how expensive this country is
the beauty really does come with a price
like this rental car right here was the
cheapest rental car that they had and it
is still a hundred and eighty dollars
per day also we have not slept in over
36 hours now since we flew in from new
york city to here to switzerland and now
we are going to be road tripping for the
next couple hours all the way down to
interlaken where we're gonna explore
some lakes and some mountains some
valleys and do all these adventurous
activities that switzerland has to offer
so starting right now
let the adventure
begin
here
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quick stop and learn to get some
chocolate swiss chocolate
chocolate secured
going on a switzerland road trip should
be on everyone's bucket list every
little town that you drive through just
feels like an enchanted village we just
made a quick stop in this town called
brilliant and it is just so cool
exploring walking around seeing
restaurants that are almost older than
america oh and also supposedly the most
beautiful streets in all of europe
so this street has been voted the most
beautiful street
in all of europe
with every streets not only in biens but
in all switzerlands i don't know how
they do it it's just perfect
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i've seen so many photos of switzerland
where i just figured that they
photoshopped and lightroomed the water
to look more turquoise than it actually
was but coming here now to brienne's i
believe this is even the brienne's lake
where the water is really that blue
confirming the blue ass water and we
learned that it is from the snow melting
from the glaciers and the minerals from
that and on the rocks just come here to
the lake and give it this incredible
turquoise blue speaking of clean water
switzerland has the cleanest water on
the planet where you can just drink from
these random fountains around the
country it's really good
one of the great things about
adventuring around switzerland is that
everywhere you go you have these
fountains with super fresh water
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so far we've learned one thing about
switzerland that house farts
means exit
i'm gonna be fluent in german in no time
house farts outsparked mouse farts
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good morning guys from the beautiful
interlock in switzerland after our super
long travel day yesterday we made it
here at around 10 p.m and just passed
out like a ton
of bricks but there's nothing like
waking up in a new place and just being
amazed by all the incredible sights
especially from your hotel window
and before we do get on with our
action-packed day i did want to show you
guys what 300 a night gets you here in
interlock in switzerland
check this out
yep
that's it
so today we are checking off a bucket
list item we are heading to the top of
europe it is the highest point in the
continent where you have to take a 45
minute tram ride all the way to the top
but you do get incredible views
like this
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and highly recommend if you are doing
this
grab a lint mocha where it's a
cappuccino with a fountain of lint
chocolate that they put in it all right
well we are officially the highest
people in all of europe haley do you
feel do you feel high
i am super high right now
no honestly do you feel
the altitude
i feel the altitude i guess i'm a little
used to it now we've been up here for
like five minutes
but when we first got up here it was
like a little woozy
yeah i can definitely feel that that we
are pretty high i think right now we are
about 11 000 feet so we are able to just
overlook all of the alps and get these
incredible views of the top
of the mountains of switzerland so next
up we are heading to the ice palace i
believe we go inside of a glacier just
into freezing ice cold rock
we definitely did not dress properly for
this we are just in a little sweater
haley has this super thin cardigan on
and we are about to freeze it's probably
zero degrees celsius right now
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this is literally
ice right here
it's so cold
this is so cool though
literally so cool
haley i got a hundred swiss franc
if you lick it 100
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hopefully your tongue doesn't get stuck
to it
like in that movie
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are you serious
[Laughter]
imagine
starting to feel a little claustrophobic
oh my gosh
this is insane
wow
hey haley
ellie we're not going to let you do this
at least you hit me the first one she
threw off camera she hit the woman
behind me
she doesn't have that good of aim
you move
so now i wanted to show you guys what a
dinner out here in switzerland can cost
you so we came here tonight to the top
of the met which haven't tried the food
yet but these views are just miraculous
this whole entire country just looks
like one a giant amusement park we have
the church bells going right now there's
trains going around everything is just
picture perfect but now we're gonna see
what we get here for dinner haley made
us get the cheese fondue so
hopefully
this is gonna be worth it i think it's
like 65 bucks so better be good i'm
coming for you haley
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so cheese fondue for the first time ever
having it
that was pretty darn delicious hayley
the food you never steer me wrong i
don't but with my wallet
sometimes yes
so the total meal for the two of us was
just getting one cheese fondue and a
couple glasses of wine came out to
around 120 usd but surprisingly wine as
i guess in europe is a lot cheaper than
in america it's only about five dollars
a glass
so it's just that cheese fondue that uh
really did us dirty like that
i'd still say totally worth it though it
was something to do it was an experience
and it was
delicious
it was like it really was it really was
good call
you're welcome
after looking up why switzerland is so
expensive i learned how the average
salary in the country is nearly 125 000
with also having the highest minimum
wage of 25 dollars per hour on top of
all this anything from switzerland you
can guarantee it will be top of the line
quality whether it's food or watches or
trains the swiss are magicians when it
comes to engineering
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guten morgen from grindelwald
switzerland today we have another very
exciting action-packed day where we are
taking the tram back up to a different
mountain and then going to be trotty
biking down it's kind of like these
crazy little tricycles that we're
literally gonna be taking down the
mountain i don't know how but we're
gonna figure it out soon
now to get down the mountain there are
three stages with the first being
flying
so now for the first part of the way
down
we're going to be flying
this is insane
are you nervous
yeah
oh my gosh
i just want to stay until the morning
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and
guys the swiss do not mess around i
thought it was going to be kind of this
rinky-dink little bike that you wouldn't
be able to go too fast on but boy was i
wrong we were flying down the mountain
it is so hard to break you're going so
fast also you're going through these
clouds where you can possibly fall off
the side of the mountain
luckily both of us are still alive and
now celebrating
with some swiss beer
some
traditional swiss
mix with spray
which i've never heard before i've never
heard of this either but haley's not a
big beer drinker so they recommended her
to get a beer mixed with sprites
never heard of it it's not bad not bad i
mean you really have a sweet tooth so i
feel like this is perfect for you
i can't help but spray your beers
both in one in one drink
whoa this is right over here wow that's
actually really good i thought it would
taste funky but
not a bad combination
so we made it safely down the mountain
even though the roads were soaking wet
and we were going through the clouds it
really did just add to our adventure but
we're back safely in grindelwald and
also how to make a quick stop
not a coffee cart but they got a coffee
vending machine
switzerland really is a ahead of the
game got a cappuccino it's like eight
bucks
some pretty good coffee
so you guys saw what 300 dollars and i
gets you in interlaken but now we are
just a couple miles away in a town
called lauterbrunnen which is much
smaller and also much cheaper so when i
was trying to find one of the cheaper
hotels this is what we got we had no
idea that we would have this balcony and
this incredible view
of the waterfall
so i guess there are some deals out
there in switzerland hard to find how to
book this hotel last night but you know
they're out there
switzerland really is just like one
giant amusement park today we skipped
the coffees and are getting a shot
of life espresso since we're gonna be
propelling off of a cliff into a canyon
and then going to be canyoning around
all of these swiss mountains and yeah we
got the uh wetsuits on since
it is pretty darn chilly up here a
little afraid of how cold this water may
be
let's do this
also i wanted to give a huge shout out
to outdoor interlaken for help making
this trip so memorable very memorable
for this one since she
is not looking forward to this cold
we're suited up like we're like
diving into antarctica
so this is what we're gonna be
propelling down
150 feet
straight down
and luckily
haley's going first to test it out it
needs someone to test the rope you know
yeah she's always makes for a great
stunt dummy that's gonna be you
just like that
well we have to do that because i am
going to film her with the camera and
then leave it in the car and then we'll
pick it up at the end of our adventure
but yeah also makes for a great excuse
to have haley go first you got this
let's
i do feel really bad making her go first
but
oh well good luck haley look at that
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[Applause]
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wow
that was incredible
get up here
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we are going to be running off a
mountain and paragliding
all the way down
haley how you feeling about this one i'm
watching this guy land
haley's just been watching for the past
five minutes
quietly
she ate it she ate it that's gonna be
you i'm not gonna land nicely
are you nervous at all i don't know i
think i'll be fine i know when i get up
there i'm gonna be
backing out
when he's like all right run off the
cliff
i am not letting you even if i have to
throw you off that mountain haley we are
just in this random backyard
where we're gonna be running down this
mountain
and hopefully be flying away
haley is ready
no she's not she tried backing out in
the van and then right now she's like a
little scared a little
like how far out down do you have to run
don't
trip
if i trip
you're coming back again
all right we're about to get harnessed
up
and fly away
i'm so excited uh so excited
let's do this
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[Applause]
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let's go
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that was amazing
what did you think are you glad you did
it
you liked it yeah
did you watch me flipping in the air
after traveling switzerland for the week
i would still concur that this country
is near perfect from the adventures to
the landscapes this place looks straight
out of a disney movie
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and we will see you next week
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