We got ready , had our breakfast and hurried to the station for a trip to Mt. Titlis. We took a train to Engelberg from Luzern. The station was a few kms away from the cable car station which would take us to Mt. Titlis. We had to climb 10,000 feet in the cable car. The first part was in simple cable car which was a four seater and the remaining in what is called RotAir. This is a big cable car ...just one car which accommodates about 25-30 people. The smaller cars were coming in at station continuously. We had to get in as it moved slowly. The doors closed after sometime automatically and then it started its journey up the mountain. The view it provided was simply spectacular. We could actually see ourselves moving higher and higher and the station and cars and people started getting smaller and diminished after some time. Once out of this car we got into the rotair. This cable car is unique in the sense that the base /floor rotates as it moves up, so everyone gets a 360 degrees view of the surroundings. One thing we noted here was the little poster/information banner inside the car it read " Vishwa me pehle ghoomne waale gondola me aapka swagat hai " . This was written in a number of languages besides Hindi but seeing our very own Hindi made us feel proud. The rotair rotating us took us to 3020 mtrs / 10,000 ft above sea-level to top of Mt. Titlis. As soon as we got out we entered the observation deck building which was closed. We climbed one floor to reach the open deck where there was nothing but snow. The temperature was about 0 / -1 degs , but we hardly felt it as it was very very sunny. The intensity of the sun was nullifying the effect of the snow. Although it was quite cold in the shade. We went out and enjoyed ourselves, clicked a few snaps. There was a thick blanket of snow where ever we looked as if someone had painted it white. There were a few black spots seen in the snow , we soon realized it was people trekking / hiking in the snow. It was quite crowded the day we visited ..there were also two groups from SOTC.

After a little while Aai - Baba sat at the open-air restaurant/snack bar eating french fries while Sandeep and myself went a little further to check what more was there to see. We saw there were a couple of other fun activities around there. First there was this fun-ride which was a open kind of trolley which took us beneath to a lower level of snow. This was little frightening. It was like sitting in chair and gliding gently down a wire , but it was fun. Once at lower level we could see many people skiing and ice-skating. There was another fun activity down here - Snow Disk Ride. This disk was simple plastic tyre ..strong plastic ofcourse...one could just sit in and glide down the little slope on the snow. Looking at it sent chills down once back....dare to do it ? It didn't look difficult to sit in the disk but gliding down seemed a little tricky so deciding not to attempt it we just watched people do it. We also saw some people on ice-scooters. It was getting late and we returned back to the top in the trolley. Then Aai came along with us to play in the snow ...we played a for a while throwing snow at each other , clicked some snaps. Sandeep and myself even slid down a snow slope just lying down on it ...it was fun but not thrilling as the slope was not much. After all the enjoying we decided to have our meal , we were all very hungry by now. We found an Indian restaurant (yes even at 10,000 ft) and settled for some samosas, rice and cake. After a little rest we started our descent down the mountain the same way we came up. Taking a train to Luzern from Engelberg we reached Luzern by about 6:30 PM. It has been a long day . we rested for an hour or so and then left for dinner. That night we had dinner at Kaanchi another Indian restaurant we had spotted the earlier day. Back to hotel for a sound sleep.