Country Info
- Bern
- Capital
- Swiss Franc (CHF)
- Currency
- 7,283,274
- Population
- CH
- Country Code
Switzerland Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Switzerland
Switzerland is Beautiful... even in the rain!
In the morning we got up super early to leave Germany and head towards Switzerland. Probably the most interesting part of the drive was listening to our tour guide (who could speak for hours without taking a breath) talk about all the interesting things ...
A brief glimpse.
My trip to Zurich was via the Golden Panorama train which has great views through some mountain ranges and past gorgeous lake. On my way I decided to stop in Luzern(Lucerne) for a few hours to check out the city. It of course is situated on a lake and ...
The Mountains Win Again
... there were mountains towering above me. The chorus of cow bells echoing from the valleys below assured me I must be in Switzerland. I think I've discovered paradise. Nestled between the famous Eiger, Jungrau, and Monch mountains is the little town of ...
Bern River...we saw, we swam, we froze.....
As if interlaken wasn´t enough of an addrenailine rush...next came bern! In Bern there is a river that surrounds the whole city and it is actaully clean enough to swim in. It is a VERY fast flowing river that you can get in and float down into the city ...
Lets go to Switzerland and have some McDonalds
Nothing much to say, really. Went to Switzerland for half an hour, had some McDonalds. They have shrimp things. I'ts ...
Antin luona Genevessä
Yhden aikoihin aloimme tekemään lähtöä Heikin luota ja tällä kertaa minä olin ratissa. Matkaa meillä oli Antin luokse Geneven lähettyville noin 550 kilometriä ja suurin osa matkasta sujui erinomaisen sujuvasti pitkin Ranskan moottoriteitä. ...
The Matterhorn and Zermatt
I was happy to leave Milan (which had all Italy's bad qualities and little of its good) for the clean air and green valleys of Swittzerland. My first stop was a little town just over the border called Zermatt, home of 3 attractions.. The Matterhorn ...
Geneva
... sun has shone the last few days, so we spend our time wandering the streets. Belinda loves the fashion and styles in Switzerland, especially jewellery and house accessory stores, she already has a million and one ideas about our future house. I like the ...
Dance the night away!
Our journey into the Montreux town centre was becoming a little more disciplined and we had our 3 bus changing trip down to a fine art. Today we explored the stalls all through the Montreux festival everything from arts and crafts to extravagant food ...
lakeside cosmopolitan
it is nice to move into a new country again (and be speaking French again), tho the transit from madrid was an eventful 21 hour bus ride! a nice atmosphere here mixing the peacefulness of the lake with the busy city bridging over it- a mixture of old ...
Lucerene
Today was a long travel day, without much to report. Most people were feeling the effects of the previous night, and slept most of the trip. We hit some pretty bad traffic just as we crossed the Swiss border and didn't get to the hotel until 8pm. The ...
Zurich
Touchdown Switzerland! We ditched our bags at the hostel and spent the evening with a picnic on the banks of Lake Zurich. Browny went in for a swim but I'm afraid it was a little chilly pour moi. In the centre of town we hired bikes and rode ...
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list
Yes, I know, technically I haven't left Europe yet, but I thought I might fill you in on what has happened so far. First and most importantly: I got my visa! My passport was thankfully returned to me with the visa inside, looking better than ever. Now ...
Downtown Geneva
Got to take a better look at Geneva today... Took the bus downtown and walked around/window shopped for a few hours. Basically downtown is streets and streets of old buildings that are mostly shops and restaurants- most of the stores are shops like ...
Switzerland
We arrived in Interlaken, Switzerland at 9.30 am and went to our hotel were we had a great breakfast while they made our rooms available. It was raining in Interlaken but we were informed that it was snowing up higher in the mountains. After ...
Picturesque Switzerland
En espanol... El fin de semana pasada fui a Lausana, en Suiza, para visitar un amigo de Nueva Zelanda quien vive allí. Por la tarde fuimos a Montreux, un pueblo cerca de Lausana y al lado del Lago Lemán. En Montreux hay un castillo y bonitas ...
Multiple train connections...
... final destination, Interlaken. As we walked to our hostel, we were immediately amazed; it looks exactly like how we imagined Switzerland and we haven't even seen the mountains yet. We weren't exactly sure where the place was, but ...
Switzerland
... I love. I want to put braids in my hair and yodel. I'm not kidding. I want a house in the Alps. Switzerland's roads are on the edge of lakes and through tunnels. LONG tunnels that go through the mountains (the largest one in ...
The day of chocolate and bakeries
My day started nice and early and the night was never ending for Aman and Mandip. Me and my snoring kept them both up all night. Mandip mentioned she threw a sock at my face in the middle of the night as well. Lol ...ah well, what can you do. That's ...
RICOLA!!!
It has been a great day in Zurich. We slept in until 9 this morning before heading out to see the city. Since we are so messed up on what day it is, we did not even realize that is was Sunday here. Therfore, all of the shops were closed all day. So that ...
How many times?
After sitting in Nairobi Airport for nearly nine hours I finally got on my first ever Swiss Air flight. Lucky enough to be travelling business class for the eight hour, night flight I was a little disapointed to see that the seats where only a ...
Etappe 1: Von Andermatt nach Sedrun
Unser ursprünglicher Plan war, in Andermatt zu übernachten, um uns an die Höhe (1400 m) zu gewöhnen, bevor wir den Oberalbpass (2048 m) überqueren. Nach dem Gespräch haben wir beschlossen, heute noch den Pass zu überqueren, denn Wetter und Sicht ...
Castle,Cheese, and Cog Wheel
I don't remember the last time I slept for 9 1/2 hours. I guess when you had only 2 hours of sleep in the last 24 hours that would do it. The light on the mountains was awesome at 6:30 AM. I don't think anyone could get tired of looking at the lake and ...