Zermatt, Matterhorn & Gornergrat Ημερήσια Περιήγηση Μικρής Ομάδας από τη Βέρνη, Ελβετία

Railway station Bern. Your tour starts with the intercity train ride from Bern to Visp (50 minutes).

train travel along lake Thun. Lake Thun is a fjord lake in the Bernese Oberland on the northern edge of the Alps.

crossing the alps on a tunnel. The Lötschberg Base Tunnel is a 34.6-kilometre-long railway tunnel that crosses under the northern Alpine chain at the Lötschberg between Frutigen in the Bernese Oberland (Canton of Bern, Switzerland) and Raron (Canton of Valais, Switzerland) and was put into operation in 2007. This base tunnel is part of the Lötschberg-Simplon axis of the New Rail Link through the Alps (NRLA), which runs from Basel via Bern-Thun-Spiez to the Lötschberg and on via Brig-Simplon-Domodossola to Milan and Novara-Genoa, and next to the one running parallel Gotthard axis forms a second route for the transalpine rail freight traffic of the European Corridor (Rotterdam-Genoa).

Visp is a municipality in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is located at the entrance to the Vispertal at the mouth of the Vispa in the Rotten. The small town is the capital and largest municipality in the district of Visp. Here you get off the intercity train and change direct onto the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Railway. The cogwheel train takes you within 55 minutes to Zermatt

Zermatt. Walk through the old part of the alpine village of Zermatt with it's typical wooden houses.

Viewpoint Kirchbrücke. Visit the viewpoint for the typical Zermatt village picture to the Mt. Matterhorn

Mountaineer's Cemetery. The graveyard shows you, how closed the success to climb Mt. Matterhorn and the risks are. It's part of the history of Zermatt, that accidents on high alpine climbing happens.

Hotel Monte Rosa. The hotel Monte Rosa is where the first ascent to Mt. Matterhorn startet. Several information about the first ascent and it's historical tragedy are available here.

Gornergrat Railway. On a 30 minutes cogwheel train ride you get up to 10000ft altitude. In this high alpine area, beautiful views to Mt. Matterhorn and the glaciers await you. Mt. Gornergrat is in all year snow.

Mt. Gornergrat. On a 30 minutes cogwheel train ride you get up to 10000ft altitude. In this high alpine area, beautiful views to Mt. Matterhorn and the glaciers await you. Mt. Gornergrat is in all year snow.

Return travel. After returning from Gornergrat, your travel back to Bern will take place (2 hours). You trave on the same way back as you arrived in the morning.