To experiencing the captivated alpine scenery and picturesque villages, it is entirely hard to beat Switzerland. Glittering blue lakes, snow-capped peaks, quaint lakesides, ravishing glaciers make this country like a fairytale beauty. Besides, it is a blessed country where all-exclusive activities like paragliding, climbing, hiking, skiing, tobogganing, and biking can experience to the fullest.
Obviously, you are being waited to get the list of unique places to visit in Switzerland, so read this blog to the end to make this trip excited and memorable.
Zurich, Lausanne, and Geneva are places of historic buildings, galleries, museums, and famed music festivals. Its capital Bern has equipped with an enthralling medieval old town with many beautiful scenes of rivers.
Do you know Switzerland amid the famous tourist countries like Austria, France, Germany, and Italy? And the languages and customs of all these countries infuse in Switzerland somehow. Thus a single country trip will make give you multiple experiences.
5 worth-seeing places in Switzerland for your short tour:
This frantic era halt you to plan a long international trip. So, for a short trip to Switzerland, you must visit the 5 astonishing places over there:
- Jungfraujoch
My eyes still capturing the glimpses of that alpine wonderland-The Jungfraujoch. It is a captivated glacier saddle located between two mountains making it one of the offbeat places in Switzerland. Being the largest glacier in Europe, it is at 3.454 height and also one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites.
I also went to Grindelwald, a glacier village in the Jungfrau region. I did many adventures over there, thus, being an adventure lover, you must try different adventures into the mountains surroundings.
Must to do things in Jungfraujoch
- Experience the fly over the zip-line
- Let to the ice palace to see amazing ice sculptures
- Explore Sphinx Observatory
- Moritz
Eye-grabbing lakes, alpine forests, icy glaciers, highest peaks, and oodles of sunshine making St. Moritz one of the best places to visit in eastern Switzerland.
Surprisingly, this town is divided into two parts where one is St. Moritz Dorf is on a sunny terrace, and another St. Moritz Bad is on the valley floor that is also a health resort with costless lodging.
Must to do things in St. Moritz
- Biking and hiking
- Skating, Snowboarding, Skiing, and bobsledding to tobogganing on the famous 1.2-kilometre-long Cresta Run.
- The Rhine Falls
Being a lover of waterfall glimpses, you can gratify your this wish at Switzerland. Above 150 meters, the Rhine Falls at Schaffhausen is the largest waterfall in Europe. June and July are the best months to glimpse the real beauty of Rhine falls as at that time mountain snow melts and falls to spill above 21 meters.
Things to do at Rhine Falls
- Take a boat ride to views excellent waterfalls
- Be sure to grasp the beautiful glimpse on both sides of the river.
- Boat trips up the Rhine provide excellent views of the falls, as do the viewing platforms on both sides of the river.
- The Bernina/Albula Railway Line
No doubt, only a very few railway lines in the world have grabbed a place in the UNESCO world cultural heritage listing, Bernina/Albula is one from them. It is located in Graubünden, Switzerland, that offers a pleasant ride by passing through before reaching the station. The Bernina Express starts its ride from Chur (Switzerland’s oldest city). It completes its journey to Albula station after passing through nearly 300 bridges, oodles tunnels, the Graubunden Mountains and much more surprises.
- Swiss National Park
The Swiss National Park is again the best place to visit in eastern Switzerland. It is located in the Western Rhaetian Alps. This park is located right on the border of Italy and is the perfect place to glimpse at the beautiful fast-flowing rivers, flower-dotted hollows, and limestone crags. In winters, when mountains amid the snow, this view looks highly dramatic.
Besides, the park in Switzerland has above than 5k species of wildlife like chamois, red deer, marmot, and above than 100 species of birds.
Thus, to explore the heaven of the world -Switzerland, assemble your visa documents and then pack your bags to fly.