Virtually enjoy Switzerland

Images of Switzerland

Tourism in Switzerland is largely possible again, and you may be planning your trip! Meanwhile, you can enjoy the below images of the Swiss Alps. We posted them to Facebook and Twitter at the start of the pandemic in 2020. More images are here and throughout our website. Please find the latest information about the coronavirus here.

Virtual tourist tours

The below operators offer virtual tours. Some of them include Switzerland.

• Viator’s 'Roam from home' programme offers virtual tours and classes: www.viator.com.
• GetYourGuide’s 'The world at home' lists online experiences: www.getyourguide.com.
• Expedia provides tips for ‘Things to do from home’: www.expedia.com. Their tip for a virtual tour in Geneva's CERN is interesting: artsandculture.google.com.
• Google offers some virtual museum tours, such as this one through the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne: maps.google.com.

Webcams in Switzerland

Enjoying live images of your favorite Swiss spots is the next best thing if you can't be there right now. We recommend SwissWebcams: www.swisswebcams.ch. These virtual Switzerland panoramas are beautiful too: www.360x360switzerland.com. More roundshot cams are available at www.roundshot.com and webcams.windy.com.

Apart from that, you can explore regional webcam collections, such as this one for the Jungfrau region: www.jungfrau.ch.

Switzerland videos: general

Sit back and get inspired for your Switzerland trips! There are lots of free videos. Some are in German only, but the imagery is still beautiful.

Here are some general videos on Switzerland and its nature:

• MySwitzerland’s: a ‘Bird’s eye view of Switzerland’: vr.myswitzerland.com
• National Geographic’s ‘A grand tour of Switzerland in 60 seconds’: www.youtube.com
• National Geographic’s ‘Switzerland – an alpine country’: www.youtube.com
• SWISSVIEW's videos, showing Switzerland from the sky: www.youtube.com

Switzerland videos: traveling

Train traveling is an absolute must-do in Switzerland. These virtual journeys are inspiring:

• BLS (the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railways) has listed many videos about their train and boat experiences in Central Switzerland, the Bernese Oberland, the Emmen valley and more: www.youtube.com/user/BLSBahn.
• Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke allows you to enjoy videos of nostalgic steam train rides in the Furka area: https://www.youtube.com.
• HappyRail provides beautiful train videos in their Switzerland playlist: www.youtube.com. How about nice images of the Gotthard Panorama Express (www.youtube.com) for example?
• MOB (the Montreux Oberland Bernois railways) shares several short travel videos at www.youtube.com/user/goldenpassmob/videos, for example on the Golden Pass stretch between Montreux and Zweisimmen: www.youtube.com.
• MySwitzerland created a wonderful virtual ‘Grand Train Tour’: grandtraintour.myswitzerland.com.
• RhB (the Rhaetian railways) hosts a channel full of train ride videos in Graubünden: www.youtube.com/user/rhaetischebahn. Don’t miss their Bernina Express cab ride: www.youtube.com!
• SBB (the Swiss national railways) presents an impressive amount of playlists: www.youtube.com/user/sbbcffffs. Some include travel videos, such as these: www.youtube.com. And although it's not related to rail travel, you shouldn't miss their drone images of the Lavaux area, Männlichen and the Rhine Falls: www.youtube.com.
• SÖB (the Schweizerische SüdOstBahn) lists several train ride videos at www.youtube.com/user/Suedostbahn/videos, such as a cab ride from Lucerne to St. Gallen: www.youtube.com.
• Zentralbahn (operating trains in Central Switzerland) offers videos at www.youtube.com/user/diezentralbahn, including a cab ride from Lucerne to Engelberg: www.youtube.com.

Bus trips can be enjoyed through the ‘Reisen and Freizeit’ ('Travel and leisure') playlist by the Swiss PostAuto company: www.youtube.com. And a virtual Grand Tour by car is available through grandtour.myswitzerland.com.

Switzerland videos: tourist attractions and destinations

Many tourism attractions and destinations share beautiful videos too:

• Aletsch Arena: www.youtube.com/user/aletscharena
• Basel: www.youtube.com/user/BaselTourismus
• Bern: www.youtube.com/user/BernInfo
• Engadine & St. Moritz: www.youtube.com/user/EngadinMountains
• Geneva: www.youtube.com/user/webmasterGTC
• Graubünden: www.youtube.com/user/graubuenden
• Gstaad: www.youtube.com/user/tourismusgstaad
• Interlaken: www.youtube.com/user/InterlakenTourism
• Jungfrau railways: www.youtube.com/user/jungfraurailways
• Jura & the three lakes of Biel, Murten and Neuchâtel: www.youtube.com
• Lake Constance/Bodensee and St. Gallen: www.youtube.com/user/sgbtourism;
• Lucerne: www.youtube.com/user/luzerntourismus
• Montreux and eastern Lake Geneva: www.youtube.com/user/MontreuxRivieraTV
• Rigi: https://www.youtube.com/user/Rigi1871
• Schilthorn: www.youtube.com/user/SchilthornPizGloria
• Ticino: www.youtube.com/user/TicinoTurismo
• Titlis: www.youtube.com/user/TitlisRotair
• Valais: www.youtube.com/user/valaiswallis
• Zermatt: www.youtube.com/user/ZermattTourismus
• Zurich: www.youtube.com/user/zuerichtourismus

And last but not least, the official organization for Swiss hiking trails (‘Schweizer Wanderwege’) has listed several hiking videos at www.youtube.com/user/SchweizerWanderwege.