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Hello suchisaha! It’s a challenge indeed to visit that many spots in one week only. You may have to skip a few things, in order to create a doable itinerary. For example: I think you could integrate both a chocolate factory and a visit to St. Moritz, but you’d have to make that choice at the expense of other day trips. There’s a chocolate factory in Flawil, called Shoggiland, which can be reached from Zurich and/or Lucerne, so you could plan this on day 1 or 2. During your stay in Interlaken, you may have to skip Glacier3000. It’s beautiful, but so are other viewing points and it’s a rather long trip. Instead, you could travel onto Chur/St. Moritz after your days in Interlaken. This will be a long trip though, and if you have to continue your traveling immediately the day after, there won’t be much time left to explore the towns or its surroundings. From St. Moritz, you can take the spectacular Glacier Express to Zermatt. Again, this will cost you a full day of traveling, and you won’t have time to explore Zermatt if you want to get to Geneva the next day.
In all, I’d skip Glacier3000 and St. Moritz if I were you, and concentrate on the Lucerne, Interlaken and Zermatt region only. That’s a lot for an 8 day stay already.
Have you discovered the Swiss timetable already? It will give you a good impression of the duration of the trips you’ve planned. It may be worth to take a look at the rail pass options too, as that will definitely save you money.
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Thanks Annika for your suggestions. Could you please suggest me the following
1.During the month of july/ August which mountain peak will you choose between pilatus and titlis for travel.
2. What do you think about Schilthorn– Trummelbach Falls and Jungfraujoch? Is it worth investing whole day there or i should go for St mortiz instead?
3. Since you have asked me to skip glacier 3000, will you suggest any other excursions from interlaken??? Else, Can i skip interlaken and go for Chur instead as per your suggestion?
4.If i am skipping interlaken then in which city i can go for the river cruise?
5.From Zermatt, could you please suggest me the places to visit??? What do you feel about matterhorn?
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Hello Suchi Saha.
1. In my opinion, both are beautiful. Pilatus is closer to Lucerne, so I’d pick that one. Titlis is higher though, and thus offers better chances of snow in the summer months.
2. I’d prefer a stay in the immediate Interlaken region over a trip to St. Moritz in your case, as to reduce on traveling time. It’s quite a lot to visit Schilthorn, the Trummelbach falls and the Jungfraujoch all in one day, so I’d choose between either Schilthorn or Jungfraujoch if I were you.
3. Lots of day trips from and near Interlaken can be found at the Bernese Oberland day trip overview.
4. There aren’t really river cruises. Boat trips on lakes can be made though, from Zurich, Interlaken and Lucerne.
5. You can’t visit the Matterhorn itself, but there are several viewing points from which you have a great view of the Matterhorn. Examples are the Gornergrat and Sunnegga.