From Montreux, we took the golden pass train to La Gruyere. From there, we changed train from Montrovon to BROC Fabrique. The whole traveling time took us about 2-3 hours. You can download the SBB apps to find the timing of the train! Finally we arrived at Cailler! Switzerland is famous for their chocolate, so here we are at the chocolate factory!
Finally, after hours of traveling we are here at Caillers.
Ok! I look super short beside these ermmm. Don't know what is it called? Mascots or something? Is our lucky day! We get to have a free drink and bread. Both of us order the hot chocolate since we don't drink coffee. Oh! Again, entrance fee is FREE! We joined the English speaking tour around the factory. Pretty
interesting and we get to smell the different kind of chocolate beans
and where it is originate from, the founders and etc. Amazing how these
beans can make super nice chocolates!
They also shown us how the chocolate we ate are being produced. From making - moulding - packaging! How technology advances made those machines do the work so easily and quick.
Ok the most exciting part of this tour is....... You actually get to
eat as much chocolate as you want at this chocolate room!! Just look at
the wide selections that they have...plus all the pretty chocolate box
container! I bought one for myself thou! Sbd loves chocolate, so you
should know what happen next!
The
baby is really cute! I think is really my lucky day.. We were told that
chocolate making class is only for the kids since is
weekend..hahahaha!!! But in the end, the lady at the counter decided to
give us 2 slots...!! Guess she can sense MY disappointment. All the way
from Singapore! Anyway, the downside is we have to wait for 1 hour! So
we were pretty torn if we should just leave to go to the next
destination or stay but glad that we stayed! I think I am a kid at
heart.. :)
While waiting for the chocolate making lesson to start!
Since years ago, I decided to stop buying soft toys so for memories sake - Snap a photo with it!
Finally it started!
These are all the ingredient that I need to decorate on my chocolate!
3 flavors to choose from!
He choose the dark chocolate while I choose my fav white chocolate as the base.
Creativity time started.
And is done!
Time to put inside the freezer.
The final product!
Last step is packaging.
Put the chocolate in a nice plastic or eat it immediately!
my bridal nails!
Next destination is La Maison Du Gruyere. Aside from chocolate, cheese is one of the MUST eat when you are in Switzerland! The museum was pretty small and not as fanstatic. You can skip this if you want. The museum shows what kind of grass the cow eats and if you go at the right timing, you can see how they make cheese. After a short 10 mins we left to see the old town of gruyere. We wanted to visit the Chateau de Gruyeres but it opened only till 4.30. Nonetheless, we still managed to get some nice shots!
Love this photo.
Swiss Alps right behind us.
We were recommended by colleagues to try out the Cheese Fondue! So we
settled for this cottage Swedish looking restaurant. Ordered one Cheese
Fondue to share and the waitress are thinking why are we ordering 1 and
not 2. Anyway the portion is really huge! Comes with prickles, bread,
meat and potato! We can't finish them.

Long journey back to the hotel and we had some time to snap some photos while waiting for the train.
Boots that I bought from timberland!
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