Explore Grindelwald

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.

The Jungfraujoch is a glacier saddle at 3,463 m between the Jungfrau and the Mönch. Since 1912 the Jungfrau Railway has climbed to it through a tunnel in the Eiger and the Mönch, ending at a station at 3,454 m. A lift rises to the Sphinx terrace at 3,571 m above the Aletsch Glacier, and the complex also holds an Ice Palace and a glacier plateau.

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.

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.

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.

Ballenberg is the Swiss open-air museum at Hofstetten bei Brienz, about 20 kilometres east of Interlaken. Opened in 1978, it shows more than 100 rural houses, barns and workshops from all parts of Switzerland, taken down at their original sites and rebuilt on a 66-hectare site, with craft demonstrations, gardens and over 200 farm animals.