File13-bernese-oberland-loc-swi7.dwg Book Initial Mapping Date Road Switzerland 7 Peter 21/11/11 Scale All key roads labelled?Hierarchy Hydro ChapterGeneva Editor Cxns Date Title Spot colours removed?Hierarchy Symbols Author MC Cxns Date Nthpt Masking in Illustrator done? Kerry Christiani Book Off map Inset/enlargement correct?dest'ns BorderCountry LocatorKey A1None Author Cxns Date Notes Basefile08-geneva-loc-swi6.dwgFinal Ed Cxns Date KEY FORMAT SETTINGS New References09-geneva-loc-swi7.dwg Number of Rows (Lines) Editor Check Date MC Check Date Column Widths and Margins MC/CC Signoff Date ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd BernesePOP 207,650 / AREA 5907 SQ KM / LANGUAGE Oberland GERMAN 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) 110 ERLAND ERLAND ERLAND ERLAND B B B O O O BERNESE BERNESE BERNESE ighlights H AND rl E B O Bernese Oberland Highlights 1 Get dizzy with zip-wires, from Schynige Platte to 4 Do some Sherlock 5 Test your limits 6 Marvel at the 72 waterfalls hanging bridges and Eiger Grindelwald-First . Holmes–style detective work canyoning, skydiving, ice cascading down the cliffs in the views on the via ferrata 3 Be spellbound by 4000m for glorious waterfalls and climbing and glacier bungee Lauterbrunnen Valley (p124) . (p127) in Mürren . peaks and the glinting Aletsch meringues in Meiringen jumping in adventure-sports 7 Slalom like a celebrity 2 Hike the classically Alpine Glacier at Jungfraujoch (p133) . mecca Interlaken (p111) . on the slopes of glitzy Gstaad Faulhornweg (p117), (p123) . (p137) . Bern Brienzer Lucerne Rothorn (2350m) Brünig Titlis (24km) Steffisburg Pass (50km) (3239m) Thun Brienz Aare A6 Gorge St Beatus- Giessbachfälle Nessental N11 Susten Höhlen rseenz) nze e Axalp Meiringen Trift Cable Car Pass ie Bri FRIBOURG Beatenberg Br Innertkirchen Trift Stockhorn Spiez ake Faulhorn First (L (2681m) Aare Triftsee Suspension (2190m) Faulensee (2167m) Rosenlaui Gorge Thunersee Interlaken Bridge N8 (Lake Thun) Grosse Scheidegg URI Niesen Schynige Platte Andermatt (2km); Mülenen Wilderswil Faulhornweg N6 St Gotthard Pass (12km) (2362m) Zweilütschinen (1967m) Wengen Grindelwald Lauterbrunnen Kleine Lauterbrunnen Valley Frutigen Scheidegg Mürren Schilthorn Eiger (3970m) Grimselsee Furka Pass St Gotthard Zweisimmen (2970m) Mönch (4099m) Grimsel Gletsch Pass Gimmelwald Jungfraujoch (3454m) Pass Tunnel Stechelberg Saanenmöser Jungfrau Oeschinensee (4158m) Ulrichen Saanen Kandersteg r Adelboden e i Blümlisalp c a Nufenen TICINO Gstaad (3663m) l G Pass Lenk h N19 c Tunnel s t le A e ôn Gemmi VALAIS h I T A L Y VAUD Pass R Col du Leukerbad Pillon Reusch Les Diablerets Brig Montana Glacier 3000 VALAIS Crans 0 10 km Cable Car 05 miles A9 Sierre Visp.