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Jungfraujoch |
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Full day
Full year |
Tel: +41 (0)33 828 72 33
Fax: +41 (0)33 828 72 60
info@jungfrau.ch
www.jungfraujoch.ch |
Strictly, the Jungfraujoch is the lowest point on the mountain ridge between Mönch and Jungfrau, at 3471 m. It is just above this location that the mountain station of Jungfraubahn is located, Jungfraujoch railway station, which at an elevation of 3,454 metres is the highest railway station in Europe. The Jungfraujoch is often called the "Top of Europe" in tourist literature.
Not far east of the Joch rises a peak called the Sphinx, which tops out at an elevation of 3,571 metres. It begins from the Jungfraujoch on the Valais side and at the Great Aletsch Glacier. There is an elevator to the summit of the Sphinx, where a small viewing platform and a scientific observatory, the Sphinx Observatory, are located. |
Giessbachfälle |
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Halbtags
Juni - Oktober |
Grandhotel Giessbach
3855 Brienz
Tel. +41 (0)33 952 25 25
grandhotel@giesbach.ch
www.giessbach.ch |
| Der Giessbach ist ein Bergbach mit imposantem Wasserfall, dem Giessbachfall, am östlichen Ende des Brienzersees im Berner Oberland. Die Hochtäler und Becken des Sägistal-Faulhorngebiets sind das Quellgebiet der weltberühmten Giessbachfälle, die sich in schönen Wasserkaskaden in 14 Stufen über 500 Meter in den Brienzersee hinunterstürzen. |
Trummelbach Falls |
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Half day
Apr - Okt
9-18 Uhr
pre- and aftersaison
9-17 Uhr |
Tel: +41 (0)33 855 32 32
www.truemmelbachfaelle.ch |
| The Trummelbach Falls in Switzerland are a series of ten glacier-waterfalls inside the mountain made accessible by tunnel-lift and illuminated. The Trummelbach alone drains the mighty glacier defiles of Eiger (3970 m), Monk (4099 m) and Jungfrau (4158 m) and carries 20.200 tons of boulder detritus per year. Its drainage area is 24 km², half of it covered by snow and glaciers. Up to 20.000 litres of water per second. The only glacier-waterfalls in Europe inside the mountain and still accessible. The Trummelbach Falls belong to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn and is listed in the Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance of Switzerland. |
Brienzer Rothorn |
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Half day
Juni - October |
Brienz Rothorn Bahn
Postfach
3855 Brienz
Tel: +41 (0)33 952 22 22
Fax: +41 (0)33 952 22 10
info@brienz-rothorn-bahn.ch
www.brienz-rothorn-bahn.ch |
| The Brienzer Rothorn is a mountain in the Swiss Alps on the border between the cantons of Lucerne, Berne and Obwalden. The summit can be reached from Brienz by the Brienz Rothorn Bahn (steam train) and from Sörenberg by a cable car. |
Niesen |
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Half day
Juni - October |
Niesenbahn AG
3711 Mülenen
Tel: +41 (0)33 676 77 11
Fax: +41 (0)33 676 77 12
www.niesen.ch |
The Niesen is a mountain, located in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps, overlooking the lake of Thun and is often called the Swiss Pyramid.
The summit of the mountain (2362 meters) can be reached easily with a funicular from Mülenen (near Reichenbach). The construction of the Niesenbahn funicular was completed in 1910. Alongside the path of the Niesenbahn is the longest stairway in the world with 11,674 steps. It is open only once a year to the public for a stair run.
The Niesen was the subject of a number of paintings by Paul Klee, in which it was represented as a quasi-pyramid. |
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