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Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
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Things to do in Lauterbrunnen

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Ninety seconds on Lauterbrunnen

Lauterbrunnen is a village on the floor of a glacial trough in the Bernese Oberland, wedged between vertical limestone walls that rise more than three hundred metres on either side. Seventy-two waterfalls are counted off its walls across the year, the tallest of them the free-falling Staubbach, and the sound of falling water is the constant background to the place. It is the rail and road gateway to the car-free villages above it, Wengen on the eastern shelf and Mürren on the western, and to the Jungfrau region beyond. The village itself is small, a single main street with a church, a museum and a station, and most visitors use it as a base rather than a destination.

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  1. Lauterbrunnen Valley Floor Walk to Stechelberg

    Lauterbrunnen Valley Floor Walk to Stechelberg

    Trail · 1.5 hr

    The only way to read the valley as one continuous system rather than a set of separate viewpoints.

  2. Staubbach Falls

    Staubbach Falls

    Waterfall · 30 min

    The single image the whole Lauterbrunnen valley is built on, and it stands at the edge of the village.

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  3. Schilthorn

    Schilthorn

    Viewpoint · 4 hr

    Stop at Birg on the way down. Its steel walkway is pinned to the cliff face under the station, and it gives you the view straight down that the flat summit terrace does not.

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  4. Lauterbrunnen to Grütschalp Cableway and Panorama Railway

    Railway · 30 min

    The railway leg holds the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau in the window for twelve unbroken minutes.

  5. Talmuseum Lauterbrunnen

    Museum · 30 min

    Twenty minutes here explains why every building in the valley sits exactly where it does.

  6. Trümmelbach Falls

    Waterfall · 1.5 hr

    A glacier's entire summer discharge, heard and felt from inside the rock it is cutting.

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The Bernese Oberland, Floor to Summit

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