Bernese Oberland Sends Spirits Soaring to Heaven

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Includes  Why Go? Interlaken ...... 111 Nature works on an epic scale here. Whether you’re hiking Jungfrau Region. . . . 116 in the fearsome north face of Eiger, carving powder on a Grindelwald...... 116 crisp winter’s morning in Gstaad or gawping at the misty Jungfraujoch...... 123 Staubbach Falls, the Swiss Alps don’t get more in-your-face beautiful than this. Nowhere are the resorts quainter, the Lauterbrunnen. . . . . 124 peaks higher, the glaciers grander. Fittingly watched over Wengen ...... 125 by Mönch (Monk), Jungfrau (Virgin) and Eiger (Ogre), the Mürren...... 126 Bernese Oberland sends spirits soaring to heaven. Gimmelwald ...... 128 The region’s cinematic looks haven’t gone unnoticed. Thun...... 129 Mark Twain wrote that no opiate compared to walking here (and he should know), Arthur Conan Doyle thought Spiez...... 131 Meiringen a pretty spot for a Sherlock Holmes who­ Brienz...... 132 dunnit, while 007 brought the icy wilderness of Schilt­ Meiringen...... 133 horn to screens. Yet try as they might, few photographers Kandersteg...... 135 manage to do the Bernese Oberland justice. Listen for tutting Gstaad...... 137 tourists at postcard carousels trying – and failing – to find something to match their memories.

Best Places to Eat When to Go ¨¨WineArt (p115) ¨¨From ritzy Gstaad to picture-postcard Mürren, the slopes ¨¨Cafe 3692 (p121) hum with skiers and boarders in winter. ¨¨Restaurant Schönegg ¨¨Ring in the New Year ogre-style at Harder Potschete in (p126) Interlaken and catch the hell-for-leather Lauberhorn and ¨¨Nico’s (p136) Inferno ski races. ¨¨Chesery (p 138) ¨¨Summer is the time for Alpine hiking and open-air folk festivals galore in the Jungfrau Region. ¨¨Room rates plunge in autumn, when the crowds are few Best Places to and the weather is often fine. Stay ¨¨In September at Almabtriebe, cows wreathed in flower ¨¨Rugenpark B&B (p113) garlands are brought down from the mountains for another winter of dung-shovelling. ¨¨Gletschergarten (p120) ¨¨Hotel Eiger (p127) ¨¨Esther’s Guest House (p128)

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