Category: mountains
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Sigriswil Panorama Bridge, Switzerland
As we drove around Thurnersee on Seestrasse (see earlier posts here and here), at Gunten, we turned uphill and climbed to Sigriswil which is located at 810 m (2660 feet). We came to see the Sigriswil panoramic bridge (Panoramabrücke Sigriswil) that traverses the 182 m deep Gummischlucht gorge through which the stream Guntenbach runs into…
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Sunrise at Mount Pilatus, part 2
Continuing with our story about mountains and … We woke up at six something and hurried out of the hotel to see the sunrise. Thankfully, the fog had dissipated overnight and the sky above us was clear. Play a tune while reading this : Since Hotel Bellevue was already at the top, it was technically…
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Sunrise on Mount Pilatus, part 1
On our way back home after a visit to St. Moritz, we used the motorway instead of the mountainous route we previously took. To see photos of the mountain passes we visited on that route, click here. _ We passed Chur, stopped at Lucerne for lunch and then sneaked up to Mount Pilatus for the…
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Views from above St. Moritz
St. Moritz lies on the southern slopes of the Albula Alps, a mountain range in eastern Switzerland, overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of Engadine and Lake St. Moritz. Because we were visiting just after the peak tourist season, the hotel gave us free unlimited passes for use on the cable cars and funicular…
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Muottas Muragl looking over St. Moritz
Muottas Muragl is a location on the southern slopes of Blais da Muottas (2,568 m) and offers at 8,051 feet (2,454 m) the most beautiful vantage point above the lakes of Upper Engadine valley. Muottas Muragl is situated between the villages of Samedan and Pontresina, accessible by a funicular railway built in 1907 that takes…
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Sankt Moritz, Graubünden
St. Moritz is the destination of our long-weekend road trip to the Eastern side of Switzerland. We spent 4 posts describing our journey over five mountain passes to get here, see part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. For this post, let’s hear a 2012 Swing Out Sister instrumental: St. Moritz (German: Sankt…