Best of Swiss Alps Tour
Grüezi mitenand und herzlich willkommen! Welcome everyone and so nice to have you here in Switzerland! We hope your flight was comfortable. Now your journey begins, a breath-taking tour around this beautiful country of Alps, countryside, jewel-like lakes, chocolate and tons of heritage.
We will be present for your whole journey, to make it as comfortable and trouble-free as can be. Here’s a tiny gift from us, some chocolate and fresh water to start your trip. Let’s head towards the train, it leaves from this very building.
Our first stop is in the heart of Switzerland, Engelberg. This beautiful valley town has its own monastery with a cosy cheese factory. The brie is fantastic, worth tasting! Traditions run through Engelberg’s veins as it belongs to one of the Kantons where Switzerland was originally born. Mountain Titlis offers us a long ride up above 3000 metres with gondolas. View from a restaurant with year-around snow cover gives our lunch some additional spicing.
Even though our walks through this idyllic village are calm, Engelberg is one of the most visited locations in Switzerland. We will have our peace and quiet, as most of the tourists stay separated from the rest of the town. Locality, farming and peaceful living define our staying. To top the stay, we will dine in local Swiss restaurants with top-quality food – and service! Can you hear the alphorn playing somewhere up the mountain side?
Our tour continues towards Jungfrau area. Naturally, we will travel with train. Panorama windows and white tablecloth restaurant car take this public transport to a whole new level in enjoyment and easiness. Jungfrau is the largest single mountain area in Swiss Alps, which enables us easy and very quick access to several interesting locations within the area.
One of our visits is to Mürren, this beautiful Alp location where no cars are allowed to drive. Getting up with a gondola and an old, adorable mountain train already reveals why this is one of the best spots for mountain sightseeing; Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau open up before your eyes. These peaks are around 4000 metres high, stunning and snow topped. Peacefulness and alpine living go to a whole new level here.
On the top of mountain Schilthorn we will brunch like James Bond, with luxorious views and champagne. A walk downwards back towards the valley includes a visit to Gimmelwald, with a fascinating speciality of a personnel-free grocery boutique. Still a bit further down, we see thousands of litres of water rushing down from the mountain. This is Staubachfall, waterfall known around the World. Will you come with us and go visit behind it?
We have already experienced so much but still managed to take every day easily and enjoy ourselves. Turquoise lakes of Interlaken will soon be left behind as we head to our third location, Leukerbad. If you like spas and wine, this is a heaven for you!
We head up towards the town of Leukerbad through wine fields that stretch out as far as eye can see. Leukerbad’s thermal baths force you to slow down and enjoy. Spending time in an outdoor pool with 37-degree Celcius hot water with astounding mountain view makes you forget about the time. The setting is almost surreal. Why not to have a beautiful, candle-lit fondue dinner after a day like this?
From the village’s 1400 metre altitude we take a gondola up to Gemmipass where a view opens towards Zermatt and Matterhorn. Oh, you have good camera equipment along with you? Excellent, there is plenty to photograph here, mountains, marmots, ancient-looking old wood houses with beautiful tiny details and so on. The sky is literally your limit of good photoshoot targets!
Is it time to go back already? Last train stretch from Leukerbad to Zürich flies by. We are so happy that you came along with us and hopefully you got a collection of memories to last for a lifetime! Now here at the airport we want to thank you once again and hope that you will come back to Switzerland to experience more once more. Tschüss!