Bernese Oberland
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Interlaken ....................... 115 Jungfrau Region ............122 Grindelwald ....................122 Lauterbrunnen.............. 130 Wengen .......................... 131 Mürren ...........................133 Gimmelwald .................. 134 Thun ...............................135 Spiez ..............................137 Brienz ............................ 139 East Bernese Oberland ....................... 140 Meiringen ...................... 140 West Bernese Oberland ........................142 Kandersteg ....................142 Gstaad ............................143 Best Places to Eat » Benacus (p119) » Michel’s Stallbeizli (p144) » Restaurant Schönegg (p132) » Fluss (p137) Best Places to Stay » The Hayloft (p142) » Gletschergarten (p125) » Hotel Rugenpark (p117) » Hotel Victoria (p141) ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd Bernese Oberland POP 856,300 / AREA 5907 SQ KM / LANGUAGE GERMAN Why Go? Go for the epic outdoors. Whether you’re hiking in the fearsome north face of Eiger with a china-blue sky overhead, car ving virgin powder on a crisp winter’s morning in Gstaad, or gazing up at the mist-enshrouded Staubbach Falls – the Swiss Alps don’t get more beautiful than this. And we’re talking big, in-your-face, stop-dead-in-your-tracks beauty. Nowhere are the resorts more chocolate box, the peaks higher, the glaciers grander. Fittingly watched over by Mönch (Monk) and Jungfrau (Virgin), the Bernese Oberland sends spirits soaring to heaven. Mark Twain wrote that no opiate compared to walking here (and he should know), Arthur Conan Doyle thought Meiringen on the banks of turquoise Brienzersee a pretty spot for a Sherlock Holmes whodunnit, while 007 brought the icy wilderness of Schilthorn to cinema screens. Such masters captured the region’s allure, but most photographers fail to do so. Listen for the tutting of tourists at postcard carousels trying – and failing – to fi nd something to match their memories. When to Go From ritzy Gstaad to picture-postcard Mürren, the slopes hum with skiers and boarders in winter. Come in January to ring in the New Year ogre-style at Harder Potschete in Interlaken and catch the hell-for-leather Lauberhorn and Inferno ski races. Summer is the time for Alpine hiking and openair folk festivals galore in the Jungfrau Region. Room rates plunge in autumn, when the crowds are few and the weather often fi ne. At Almabtriebe in September, cows wreathed in fl ower garlands are brought down from the mountains for another winter of dung-shovelling.
114 BERNESE OBERLAND BERNESE OBERLAND Bernese Oberland Highlights 7 Slalom like a celebrity on the glitzy slopes of Gstaad (p143) glacier bungee jumping in adventure-sports mecca Interlaken (p115) 6 Marvel at the 72 waterfalls cascading down the cliff s in the Lauterbrunnen Valley (p130) 4 Do some Sherlock Holmes– style detective work for glorious waterfalls and meringues in Meiringen (p140) 5 Test your limits canyoning, skydiving, ice climbing and from Schynige Platte to Grindelwald-First 3 Be spellbound by 4000m peaks and the glinting Aletsch Glacier at Jungfraujoch (p129) 1 Get dizzy on the zip-wires, hanging bridges and Eiger views on the via ferrata in Mürren (p133) 2 Hike the classically Alpine Faulhornweg (p121),
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<strong>Bernese</strong> <strong>Oberland</strong> Highlights<br />
7 Slalom like a celebrity on<br />
the glitzy slopes of Gstaad<br />
(p143)<br />
glacier bungee jumping in<br />
adventure-sports mecca<br />
Interlaken (p115)<br />
6 Marvel at the 72 waterfalls<br />
cascading down the cliff s in the<br />
Lauterbrunnen Valley (p130)<br />
4 Do some Sherlock Holmes–<br />
style detective work for glorious<br />
waterfalls and meringues in<br />
Meiringen (p140)<br />
5 Test your limits canyoning,<br />
skydiving, ice climbing and<br />
from Schynige Platte to<br />
Grindelwald-First<br />
3 Be spellbound by 4000m<br />
peaks and the glinting Aletsch<br />
Glacier at Jungfraujoch<br />
(p129)<br />
1 Get dizzy on the zip-wires,<br />
hanging bridges and Eiger<br />
views on the via ferrata in<br />
Mürren (p133)<br />
2 Hike the classically<br />
Alpine Faulhornweg (p121),
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