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The Best Attractions In Meiringen

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Reichenbachfall funicular

Reichenbach Falls

Restiturm

Aare Gorge

Sherlock Holmes Museum

Ballenberg, Swiss Open-Air Museum

Mount Titlis

Staubbach Fall

Lauterbrunnen Valley Waterfalls

Lake Brienz

Trümmelbachfälle

Meiringen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Besides the village of Meiringen, the municipality includes the settlements of Balm, Brünigen, Eisenbolgen, Hausen, Prasti, Sand, Stein, Unterbach, Unterheidon, Wylerli and Zaun. Meiringen is famous for the nearby Reichenbach Falls, a spectacular waterfall that was the setting for the final showdown between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty. The village is also known for its claim to have been the place where the meringue was first created.The municipal coat of arms shows a ...
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The Best Attractions In Meiringen

1. Aare Gorge Meiringen
The Aare Gorge is a section of the river Aare that carves through a limestone ridge near the town of Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. The gorge is an indirect product of glaciation; 10,000 years ago, just as the Ice Age was coming to an end, torrential runoff water from melting glaciers eroded a deep, narrow chasm through the limestone barrier. Although barely one mile long, this passage is bordered by sheer cliffs up to 165 feet high on either side. The gorge varies in width from some 30 metres at its widest to just 1 metre at its narrowest.The gorge is a popular tourist attraction, many visitors attracted by the nearby Reichenbach Falls, which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle selected as the setting for Sherlock Holmes' murder by Professor Moriarty. Permission to build wal...
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2. Sherlock Holmes Museum Meiringen
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a consulting detective in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. First appearing in print in 1887's A Study in Scarlet, the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891; additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated b...
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3. Restiturm Meiringen
The Restiturm, or Burgruine Resti, is a ruined castle in the municipality of Meiringen in the Swiss canton of Bern. The original castle was built in the 13th century and has been rebuilt several times. The castle is situated at the foot of the Hasliberges. The best preserved part of the castle is its tower, which still stands to this day. An examination of the castle interior reveals that the castle was constructed inside out, with the core's construction beginning in 1250. It took another 50 years before the iconic tower was completed.The castle was the seat of the Knights of Resti, vassals of the Habsburgs. The first construction was in 1250 by Peter von Resti. It overlooks the Haslital and served to control and protect the valley and the trade routes across the Grimsel Pass, Joch Pass, ...
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4. Reichenbachfall funicular Meiringen
The Reichenbachfall Funicular is a funicular in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Berne. It links Willigen, near Meiringen, with the uppermost of the Reichenbach Falls, famous as the site of the apparent death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional hero, Sherlock Holmes. On its route the line follows and crosses the lower falls of the Reichenbach.The funicular was opened in 1899, and was rebuilt in 1999 to the original design. Between 1912 and 1956, it was linked to Meiringen by the Meiringen–Reichenbach–Aareschlucht tramway. Today it is owned by the EWR Energie company, which operates the adjacent hydroelectric power plant, but is maintained by the neighbouring Kraftwerke Oberhasli company, which also operates several other lines in the area. It has the following param...
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5. Reichenbach Falls Meiringen
The Reichenbach Falls are a waterfall cascade of seven steps on the creek called Rychenbach in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. They drop over a total change of altitude of about 250 metres . At 110 metres , of which the Grand Reichenbach Fall , the upper one, is by far the largest one and one of the higher waterfalls in the Alps and among the forty highest in Switzerland. The Rychenbach loses 290 metres of height from the top of the falls to the valley floor of the Haslital. Today, a hydro-electric power company harnesses the flow of the Reichenbach Falls during certain times of year, reducing its flow.In popular literature, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave the Grand Reichenbach Fall as the location of the final physical altercation between his hero Sherlock Holmes and his greatest ...
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6. Trümmelbachfälle Lauterbrunnen
The Trümmelbach Falls in Switzerland are a series of ten glacier-fed waterfalls inside the mountain made accessible by a tunnel-funicular, built 1913, stairs, and illumination. Located in the Lauterbrunnen Valley, the creek called Trümmelbach alone drains the glacier defiles of Eiger , Mönch , and Jungfrau and carries more than 20,000 tons of boulder detritus per year.Its drainage area is 24 square kilometres , half of it covered by snow and glaciers. The falls carry up to 20,000 litres of water per second.After the hamlet of the same name on the valley floor the Trümmelbach feed into the Weisse Lütschine, which heads north through the valley and the village of Lauterbrunnen further down to join after 7 kilometres its sister river, the Schwarze Lütschine at Zweilütschinen, where the...
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7. Mount Titlis Engelberg
Titlis is a mountain of the Uri Alps, located on the border between the cantons of Obwalden and Bern. At 3,238 metres above sea level, it is the highest summit of the range north of the Susten Pass, between the Bernese Oberland and Central Switzerland. It is mainly accessed from Engelberg on the north side and is famous as the site of the world's first rotating cable car. The cable car system connects Engelberg to the summit of Klein Titlis through the three stages of Gerschnialp , Trübsee and Stand . The last part of cable car leads above the glacier. At Klein Titlis, it is possible to visit an illuminated glacier cave from an entrance within the cable-car station, which also includes shops and restaurants. The Titlis Cliff Walk, the highest elevation suspension bridge in Europe, opened ...
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8. Lake Brienz Brienz
Lake Brienz is a lake just north of the Alps, in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. It has a length of about 14 kilometres , a width of 2.8 kilometres and a maximum depth of 260 metres . Its area is 29.8 square kilometres , and the surface is 564 metres above the sea-level. It is fed, among others, by the upper reaches of the Aare at its eastern end, the Giessbach at its southern shore from steep, forested and rocky hills of the high Faulhorn and Schwarzhoren more than 2,000 metres above the lake, and by the Lütschine, flowing from the valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, at its south-western corner. It flows out into a further stretch of the Aare at its western end. The culminating point of the lake's drainage basin is the Finsteraarhorn at 4,274 metres above sea level.The village ...
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9. Ballenberg, Swiss Open-Air Museum Brienz
Ballenberg is an open-air museum in Switzerland that displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country. Located near Brienz in the municipality of Hofstetten bei Brienz, Canton of Bern, Ballenberg has over 100 original buildings that have been transported from their original sites. In addition to the main attraction of the buildings themselves, some of the industrial and crafting buildings still operate to give demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques and cheesemaking. There is also a sizable number of farmyard animals in the grounds.
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10. Lauterbrunnen Valley Waterfalls Lauterbrunnen
Lauterbrunnen is a village and a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The municipality comprises the major Lauterbrunnen Valley , the Soustal, the Sefinental, the upper Lauterbrunnen Valley with Untersteinberg including several glaciers, such as the Tschingelfirn and the Rottalgletscher, many Alpine meadows and peaks, such as Schilthorn, Bietenhorn, Schwarzmönch, and Silberhorn, and finally the villages Lauterbrunnen, Wengen, Mürren, Gimmelwald, Stechelberg, and Isenfluh, and several hamlets. The population of the village Lauterbrunnen is less than that of Wengen, but larger than that of the others.
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11. Staubbach Fall Lauterbrunnen
The Staubbach Fall is a waterfall in Switzerland, located just west above Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Highlands. The waterfall drops 297 metres from a hanging valley that ends in overhanging cliffs above the Weisse Lütschine.The stream, on reaching the verge of the rocky walls of the valley, forms a cascade so high that it is almost lost in spray before it reaches the level of the valley. After rain, and early in the season when fed by the melting snows, the Staubbach Fall is a very striking object. The force of the stream above the fall at such times is sufficient to carry the water clear of the precipice, and the whole mass descends in a condition of liquid dust, between spray and cloud, that sways to-and-fro with the gentlest breeze. In a dry summer, when the supply of water is much r...
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Aareschlucht | The Hidden gem of Swiss | Must visit place in Swiss

Aareschulcht | The Hidden gem of Swiss | Must visit place in Swiss
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Tips & Things to do in the Jungfrau Region, Switzerland (Winter edition)

The Swiss Alps is where it's at in winter so I teamed up with SnowTrex to check out the ski resorts and things to do in the Jungfrau Region to give you some tips for your next holiday in Switzerland
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I flew down to Zürich and took a train to get into the mountains with Grindelwald being my first stop. The location of Grindelwald is very unique providing one of the most stunning panoramas in Switzerland as it faces the mountains of Eiger, Jungfrau and Mönch. The ski area of Grindelwald-First offers some of the best views - especially from the breathtaking First Cliff Walk…but it is also a good spot to try the hearty Swiss cuisine before hitting the slopes again and finish it all off with some proper after ski drinks at the mountain huts or the Bus Stop bar.

From Grindelwald we took the Jungfraubahn train to the Jungfraujoch aka the „Top of Europe“ on 2571m where the highest railway station is located. The Jungfraujoch offers an outstanding view to the Aletsch glacier and the surrounding Alps from the viewing platform at the Sphinx observatory. But you can even go inside the glacier if you visit the ice palace underneath the building!

I finished this trip with a skiing day in the ski area of Hasliberg-Meiringen just a 2h picturesque train ride from Grindelwald.

As always feel free to leave more recommendations in the comment section below for future visitors of the Jungfrau Region as I only focussed on the highlights in this part of Switzerland.

Following I list all the places I visited & Things to do in the Jungfrau Region:
- Grindelwald-First
- First Cliff Walk
- Bergrestaurant First
- Bus Stop Bar Grindelwald
- Avocado Bar Grindelwald
- Barry’s Grindelwald
- Jungfraubahn from Kleine Scheidegg to Jungfraujoch
- Jungfraujoch aka the Top of Europe
- Restaurant Crystal
- Sphinx Observatory
- Ice Palace Jungfraujoch
- Ski resort Hasliberg Meiringen
- Hääggenstübeli

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10 Foods You Must Try in the Swiss Mountains

Between Cheeses, Dried Meats, Fresh Fishes or Wild Plants, without forgetting lots of different drinks, the beautiful landscapes of Switzerland offer a lot of palatable experiences.

We have been invited by the Region Jura & Three Lakes to discover some of its best products and we totally fell for them! And not only because we had Absinthe just before :) Here are our top 10 :

1. Lake Fishes, among which trouts, pikes or perchs

2. Absinthe, because in case you didn't know the Green Fairy was born in the core of Jura, between Switzerland and France.

3. Tête de Moine, the famous Rose Cheese is made in a few farms in this part of West Switzerland

4. Damassine, a really flavorful (and strong) Prune Alcohol whose fruit is said to have been originally imported from Damas, Syria. In this video, we were randomly invited by really nice Swiss friends whose homemade Damassine was a hit for us!

5. Wild plants are everywhere, and especially where we don't look. I can now definitely say the best oregano ever was not grown!

6. Cheese fondue, but also raclette, mountain cheeses, croûte and a lot of other cheese speciality. Shall we remind you what Swiss is known for?

7. Rösti! Not especially a regional specialty, but this potato dish is definitely to try in the country and a must-have during the Swiss national day.

8. Toétché, a traditional cottage cheese savoury cake whose flavour and texture are really unique

9. Chasselas, a wine grape typical from the region that produces a crisp and fresh white wine, that surprisingly goes really well with cheese :)

10. Saucisson de Neuchatel is a smoked and hearty sausage from the city of Neuchatel, here cooked in red wine. From the region of course.

Let's add chocolate, dried meats, horse meat and a lot more cheeses, and you'll never come back from the area :)

Wanna visit our places?

Go to La Maison de la Tête de Moine, to savor the cheese and know more about it

For Absinthe visit La Maison de l'Absinthe
and the passionate producer Philippe Martin

To know more about Wild Plants, meet with Maria Luisa Wenger

To taste some Chasselas with a view on the Lake, go to Christian

DISCLAIMER : the region Jura & Three Lakes helped us finance a part of our journey but didn't influence our content whatsoever.
Thanks a lot to Carole, Silke and all the other for their wonderful organisational assistance!

Interlaken, Switzerland - Best Places to Visit, Things to Do, Sightseeing, Hotels To Stay

Best Places to Visit in Interlaken, Switzerland - Things to Do, Tourist Attractions, Sightseeing, How To Reach By Train, Bus, Car or Plane, Where to stay (Hotels)

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Lake Thun
Lake Brienz
Harder Kulm
Schynige Platte
Meiringen
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Aareschlucht, Meiringen, Switzerland

Aareschlucht, Aare gorge, Switzerland (2008).
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Die Aareschlucht in Meiringen im Haslital | The Aare Gorge

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Golden Pass Line from Zweisimmen to Montrex Switzerland in March 2019

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The Golden Pass line, an extraordinary journey in different trains, with a panoramic view of breathtaking scenery. A never-ending spectacle of three mountain passes, the famous 4000 meter Alpine peaks, 8 lakes and unforgettable excursions.

The Golden Pass route
The Golden Pass starts in German speaking Lucerne and ends in French speaking Montreux. Towns along the way are Meiringen, Interlaken, Spiez, Zweisimmen and Gstaad.

Section 1: Lucerne to Interlaken Ost
The trains on this section are referred to as the Luzern-Interlaken Express. The train departs from Lucerne and passes the foot of the Pilatus mountain. You can see Lake Lucerne every now and then, but you will soon leave it behind you. You'll pass two more lakes, the Sarnersee and the Lungernsee, before the train starts climbing the Brünig Pass. The pass has an altitude of 1008 m, which isn't very high for Swiss standards. Next, the train has to descend 413 m to reach Meiringen at 595 m on the valley floor, and it uses the cogwheel track to do so.

The train changes direction in Meiringen. A flat stretch through the Hasli valley follows before the train reaches Brienz along beautiful Lake Brienz. About 20 minutes later the train arrives in Interlaken Ost (East), which is the gateway to the Jungfrau region.

Sit on the right side of the train for the best view of the lakes and the view while descending from the pass down to Meiringen.

There's an app for your phone or tablet to be used as a travel guide on this section.

Section 2: Interlaken Ost to Zweisimmen
First the train runs along the river Aare to the other side of Interlaken. It continues its way to Spiez, a town at a scenic location along Lake Thun. You can easily see the pyramid shaped Mount Niesen from here.

The Golden Pass line proceeds into the Simmen valley; a typically Swiss green valley with farms, small villages, forests and surrounded by mountains.

You can best sit on the right side for the view on Lake Thun, but this is only a short section.

Section 3: Zweisimmen to Montreux
First the train climbs to the highest point of the entire Golden Pass line, near Saanenmöser, at 1279 m. Next up is the upper class town of Gstaad, with luxurious shops and hotels. Soon after you will leave the German speaking part of Switzerland and enter the French speaking part.

The train winds its way through the valley, which is quite narrow in some places. The valley ends in a tunnel that leads to Les Avants. From there, Montreux is just 3 km as the crow flies, but there are still 578 m to descend. Cogwheel track and many curves are necessary to complete the last 20 minutes of the journey, and you will have a wonderful view of Lake Geneva along the way.

It does not matter that much on which side of the train you sit. We think the right side provides a slightly better view.

What's the best leg of the route?
All sections are worth your time. If we necessarily had to choose a section it would be section 3, Zweisimmen to Montreux. This is where the line is at its narrowest, tram-like sometimes, and the descent to Montreux with the view of Lake Geneva is absolutely beautiful.

If you don't have the time to do the complete Golden Pass route, just pick the section that is closest to your base town. If you are based in the Bernese Oberland, then consider this round trip:

Take the Golden Pass train to Zweisimmen and Montreux;
Spend some time in Montreux;
Take a train to Brig;
Take a local train via Goppenstein and Kandersteg to Spiez;
Take a train to Interlaken.
Dates of operation
The trains operate all year round.

Tip: check the timetable before you start your trip.

Note that the Golden Pass line is being renovated until 2022, particularly between Zweisimmen and Montreux. This will result in improved rolling stock, and direct trains from Interlaken to Montreux without a switch in Zweisimmen.

The GoldenPass MOB Panoramic coaches with VIP seats are being renovated and will therefor not be available until 2020. Regular panoramic coaches will be available.
Whether or not your trip will be affected by the renovations can be found in the timetable.

TIMETABLE
Check the timetable of trains on the Golden Pass trains line. To be sure to travel via the Golden Pass line, enter the via-stations Meiringen and Zweisimmen. Between Zweisimmen and Montreux, trains labeled IR or PE are the official Golden Pass trains. If you click on them they are specified as MOB Belle Epoque or MOB Panoramic. On other parts of the routes, the type of train does not matter.

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