Virtually enjoy Switzerland during the coronacrisis

Images of Switzerland

Switzerland wait for your until after the coronacrisis. Tourism is partly possible again, and you may look forward to planning your trip! Meanwhile, please enjoy the below images of the Swiss Alps. We posted them to Facebook and Twitter too. More images are here and throughout our website. Please find the latest information about the coronavirus here.

Virtual tours of Switzerland

Even though you can’t travel to Switzerland yet, you can enjoy tours and tourism related online classes, either for free or paid. The below operators offer virtual tours. Switzerland isn’t included in their options yet, but this may change:

• 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. We recommend SwissWebcams, as they’ve collected lots of webcam images from locations all over the country: 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 future trips! There are lots of free videos, helping you to bridge the time until you can travel to Switzerland yourself again. 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 ground 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. Fortunately, there are some virtual alternatives:

• BLS (the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railways) 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 ones: 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.