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This is an overview of our journey in Switzerland 2023 summer
We are a group of 9 people coming from Taiwan.
The ages of our group cover from 6 to 72.
Six of us in the group stayed in Jungfrau region and Zermatt for 10 days, and other three for 4 days at Lucerne area and 3 days at Interlaken additionally.
We like the beautiful and fantastic sceneries of Switzerland. I personally like photographing and visited Switzerland for 10 times. So our plan is mainly hiking, sightseeing and photographing.
We used the 15-day Swiss Travel Pass for the first part of our journey. In the Jungfrau region we also bought Jungfrau Travel Pass for easy access up to the mountain by cable car or by mountain train. For the final 3 days I personally bought Berner Oberland Pass to travel.
The following was my itinerary and some photos for sharing for those interested.
Switzerland 2023 itinerary
- Day 1 June 22
- Arrival at Zurich airport
- Zurich airport to Wengen (stayed in Wengen for 5 nights)
- Day 2 June 23
- Wengen to Männlichen by cable car
- Männlichen to Grindelwald by gondola
- Grindelwald Terminal to Eigergletscher by Eiger Express and return
- Grindelwald to Grindelwald First by gondola
- First Cliff Walk
- Day 3 June 24
- Wengen to Männlichen by cable car
- Männlichen to Grindelwald by gondola
- Grindelwald to Eigergletscher by Eiger Express
- Eigergletscher to Jungfraujoch – visited the observation terrace, ice cave and glacier park
- Hiking on the panorama trail from Männlichen to Kleine Scheidegg
- Day 4 June 25
- Wengen to Meiringen by train
- Meiringen to Gschwandtenmad by post bus
- Walked/ hiked from Gschwandtenmad to Hotel Rosenlaui (Rosenlaui bus stop)
- Rosenlaui to Grosse Scheidegg by bus (hiking around here)
- Returned to Grindelwald/Wengen by bus
- Day 5 June 26
- Wengen to Lauterbrunnen, then Kleine Scheidegg by cogwheel train
- Hiked from Kleine Scheidegg to Fallbodensee lake
- Hiked halfway from Kleine Scheidegg to Männlichen
- Returned to Wengen with the train
- Day 6 June 27
- Rail transfer to Zermatt (stayed for 4 nights)
- Walked to the Mürini Hill viewpoint for the Zermatt and Matterhorn night view
- Day 7 June 28
- Walked to the Mürini Hill viewpoint for the Matterhorn sunrise view
- Zermatt to Gornergrat by cogwheel train. Got down at Rotenboden and walked to Riffelsee lake
- Zermatt to Schwarzsee by cable car
- Forest Fun Park at Zermatt
- Day 8 June 29
- Walked to Mürini viewpoint for the Matterhorn sunrise view
- Zermatt to Sunnegga by funicular. Walked to Leisee (lake)
- Day 9 June 30
- Day trip Zermatt to Fiesch on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (due to raining day in Zermatt)
- Day 10 July 1
- Rail transfer to Zurich Airport (6 people of our group return to Taiwan)
- Zurich airport to Lucerne, then Lucerne to Weggis by boat (stayed for 4 nights)
- Day 11 July 2
- Ferry from Weggis to Fluelen
- Fluelen to Altdorf (walked around Altdorf)
- Day 12 July 3
- Weggis to Vitznau by ferry, then cogwheel train from Vitznau to Rigi Kulm (Mt RIgi)
- Rigi Kulm to Arth-Goldau by cogwheel train, then regular train to Lucerne
- Lucerne to Stans by train, for excursion to Stanserhorn
- Return to Weggis from Lucerne by ferry
- Day 13 July 4
- Better weather today, travelled to Rigi again
- Rigi Kulm to Arth Goldau by cogwheel train, then bus to Stoos funicular base station
- Travelled to Stoos village with the rotating funicular, from the village to Fronalpstock with the chairlift. Great view on top of Fronalpstock!
- Back to Weggis via Lucerne
- Day 14 July 5
- Weggis to Lucerne by ferry
- Lucerne to Interlaken by train (stayed for 3 nights)
- Walked around Interlaken
- Day 15 July 6
- Interlaken to Kandersteg by train. Walked from Kandersteg station to Oeschinensee cable car station and took the cable car up. Walked from the mountain station to Lake Oeschinen
- Returned to Interlaken by train
- Interlaken to Wilderswil by train. Travelled to Schynige Platte with the cog railway train
- Returned to Interlaken Ost and travelled to Harder Kulm by funicular
- Day 16 July 7
- Interlaken to Fiesch by train. Cable car to Eggishorn
- Returned to Interlaken, and travelled to Schynige Platte again (better weather)
- Day 17 July 8
- Interlaken to Grindelwald by train, Grindelwald to Eigergletscher by Eiger Express
- Eigergletscher to Männlichen via Grindelwald, and returned to Interlaken
- Rail transfer to Zurich airport for flight back to Taiwan
Any comments and suggestions are highly appreciated, Thank you very much.
Attachments: - Day 1 June 22
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Hi Tsai_sr,
Thank you for sharing your itinerary and photos from your trip. Looks like you covered a lot of places and hopefully had a great time as well.
I hope you don’t mind I made some changes to the format and also included some destination links so anyone interested in getting more information can just click on them.
Best regards,
Anna
Thanks so much Tsai_sr! That’s a well-organized itinerary. Your previous holidays in Switzerland must have helped put these 2023 plans together.
You’ve carefully thought about the combination of rail passes as well. I’m sure travel was very convenient this way, as it looks like you hardly needed additional tickets for your excursions.
And such lovely pictures! Any plans for a new visit?
Hi Anna,
Thank you so much for your effort on inserting the hyperlinks. As a result, it becomes a more useful Web page for any body especially for me.Thanks Tsai_sr. You have given me some great walking ideas for my visit to Zermatt in September. Lakes and stops I hadn’t already planned. Great photos! Looks like you had terrific weather.
Hi Tsai_sr,
Sounds like you had a great trip. Great photos, thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Danielsan
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