Category: mountains
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…
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…
Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 4
On our second day of this road trip to the Eastern side of Switzerland, we drove from Andermatt (after a detour to Airolo and St Gotthard pass) to St. Moritz. How about a bit of Bach for this stretch of the road trip ? We took Hauptstrassen 19 running alongside the river Vorderrhein (which feeds…
Viamala-schlucht, Graubünden
On the second day of our road trip to St. Moritz, after St Gotthard Pass (6,909 ft; 2,106 m), we detoured to see the Viamala Gorge (Viamala-schlucht) in the canton of Graubünden. Click the following links to see our whirlwind tour of these Alpine mountain passes Grimselpass, Furkapass and St Gottard pass. The fourth pass…