It raises swimming pool design several notches. Another feature of the area is a boat tour of Lake Thun. The boats are standard tourist quality, not unlike the Circle Line boats that take tourists on trips around Manhattan Island, but the scenery is natural, rather than man made. That takes nothing away from Manhattan's skyline. In its way it is as impressive as the Alps, and the more remarkable, perhaps, because of the nature of the builder.
Manhattan celebrates all that man is capable of achieving.
The Alps celebrate God's creative powers. From the tourist boat, one looks out a nearly hidden chalets, small towns, giant waterfalls fed by melting snow and always in the distance, sometimes obscured by clouds, are the mountains. What is perhaps most surprising about the landscape is what appears to be the relatively large number of residents. The latest population figure is about 7.125 million, which comes out to about 475 people per square mile. Compare that to Vermont, which is our most mountainous state, and Switzerland is a veritable beehive.