Explorar Interlaken

Harder Kulm is a viewpoint at 1,322 metres on the Harder ridge above Interlaken. The Harderbahn funicular, opened in 1908, climbs to it in about ten minutes from its valley station near Interlaken Ost. At the top stand a turreted mountain restaurant and the Two Lakes Bridge platform, which looks over Lake Thun, Lake Brienz and the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau.

Unspunnen Castle is the ruin of a medieval castle on a wooded rise near Wilderswil, just south of Interlaken. Probably built in the early 12th century, it passed to the lords of Eschenbach and later to Bern, which let it fall into decay; a round keep and stretches of wall remain, and the first Unspunnen festival was held in the meadows below it in 1805.

Schynige Platte is a mountain ridge and viewpoint at about 2,000 metres above Wilderswil, reached since 1893 by a cogwheel railway from Wilderswil to a top station at 1,967 metres. Beside the station is a botanical alpine garden, opened in 1929, with around 800 Swiss alpine plant species, and short trails lead to viewpoints over the Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau and Lake Brienz.

The St. Beatus Caves are a limestone cave system in the cliffs above the north shore of Lake Thun at Sundlauenen, near Interlaken. Of some 14 kilometres explored, a lit one-kilometre path leads through grottoes and halls past stalactites and underground waterfalls. Legend says the hermit Beatus lived at the entrance, where a cave museum and restaurant now stand.

Staubbach Falls is a waterfall just west of Lauterbrunnen village that drops about 297 m from a hanging valley over overhanging cliffs. Much of the water turns to spray before it reaches the valley floor. A visit in 1779 inspired Goethe's poem Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, and a path leads to the foot of the fall in summer.

Trümmelbach Falls are ten glacier-fed waterfalls inside a mountain in the Lauterbrunnen valley. The stream drains the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau and carries up to 20,000 litres per second in summer. A tunnel lift, galleries and stairways, opened from 1877 onwards, lead visitors past the falls inside the rock.

The Schilthorn is a 2,970 m summit above Mürren in the Bernese Oberland. An aerial cableway climbs from Stechelberg via Gimmelwald, Mürren and Birg to the top, where the Piz Gloria building holds a revolving restaurant and a viewing platform. The summit was a location for the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Grindelwald-First is the 2,166 m top station of the Firstbahn gondola, which climbs from Grindelwald via Bort and Schreckfeld. At the summit the First Cliff Walk runs along the rock face to a platform that projects 45 m over the drop. A trail leads in under an hour to the Bachalpsee lake, and the First Flyer zip line descends towards Schreckfeld.