Switzerland travel

motherbear332
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:52:06 +0000

I lived in Switzerland for several years, but its been a while so please confirm everything:

If you don’t go anywhere else, go to Interlachen/Lauterbrunnen. Soccerguy’s suggestions were excellent. I might not stay quite as long, though.

The revolving restaurant on top of Mt. Schilthorn (James Bond) is lovely and you can get up there and back in any combination of hiking or cable car. (Cable cars to the top of mountains are common all over Switzerland.)

The trip to Jungfraujoch (from Interlachen) allows you to experience a glacier up close and personal, but is expensive and often it is too cloudy to have much of a view. If I could only do one, I’d go for Mt. Schilthorn.

Some other random comments:

The SBB (organization that runs the trains–look for flyers at the train stations) had a lot of packaged day trips from major cities (take the train to location X, hike to Y, cablecar to Z, train back to starting point sort of thing) that are good deals. Some include renting a bike at one train station riding it downhill, dropping it off at another station. When I was there, these were not really marketed to tourists so much, so the info was only available in a local language.

Lucern is a very pretty city and it is easy to make a day trip to the top of a mountain from there.

Bern also has a charming downtown and if you are interested in this sort of thing, you can see the flat where Einstein lived while he worked at the Swiss patent office and did some of his most important work. But check the hours–it isn’t open all the hours you would expect a museum to be.