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Things to do in 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 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Staubbach Falls

    Waterfall · 30 min

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

  4. Talmuseum Lauterbrunnen

    Museum · 30 min

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

  5. 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
Lauterbrunnen

The Bernese Oberland

A valley that claims 72 waterfalls, and the steepest cableway in the world climbing out of it.
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