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Switzerland's natural paradises - clear the way for the most spectacular Alpine crossings on the Bernina and Glacier Express. Experience Switzerland on an unabridged route from sophisticated St. Moritz to the foot of the Matterhorn - on the panoramic train from the glaciers to the palm trees - right through the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

 

Trip Itinerary

Day 1 Arrival in St. Moritz.

Dinner and overnight stay at the 3-star Hotel Laudinella in St. Moritz. All rooms with bath or shower/WC, hairdryer, telephone, TV, radio/alarm clock, safe, and unobstructed view of the surrounding mountains.
St. Moritz is one of the most famous resorts in the world. Chic, elegant and exclusive, with a very cosmopolitan ambience, it is located at 1856 meters above sea level in the middle of the Upper Engadine lake landscape. The St. Moritz sun shines on average 322 days a year.

Day 2 Bernina Express Pontresina - Tirano

After breakfast, travel on the Bernina Express, the world's most modern narrow-gauge railroad. Passing the ice giants of the Bernina Group, you reach the pass at 2253 m, lined with mountain lakes. Winter lasts here for eight months. You will reach the Italian town of Tirano around noon. Here you will have the opportunity to have lunch and explore Tirano. In the afternoon our bus will pick you up again and take you back to St. Moritz. Dinner and overnight at the Hotel Laudninella in St. Moritz.

Day 3 Glacier Express panoramic car ride

After breakfast we will take the famous Swiss mountain train, the Glacier Express, from St. Moritz to Zermatt, from Piz Bernina to the Matterhorn. A 7.5 hour train ride over 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels, over the 2033 m high Oberalp Pass, between the sights in the vacation corner of Graubünden, the sunny Valais with its glacier world and the bordering regions to the south. Zermatt, the village of the Matterhorn, which has grown into an important high alpine air and altitude health resort of international stature, is the terminus for our Glacier Express. Room allocation and dinner at the Hotel Täscherhof in Täsch/Zermatt
Central and yet quiet mountain hotel in typical Valais style. The comfortable rooms are equipped with bath or shower/WC, radio, TV, telephone, safe and WLAN.

4th day drive to Zermatt with opportunity to ascend the Gornergrat

After breakfast, travel by train from Täsch to Zermatt.
The village at the foot of the Matterhorn, the most photographed mountain in the world. Almost a third of all 4000m peaks in the Alps are grouped around the village. Zermatt air is clear, dry and clean, because in the village there are only electric vehicles without combustion engine.
Opportunity to ascend the Gornergrat (not included in the tour price). Experience the breathtaking beauty of nature surrounded by 29 four-thousand-meter peaks.
Dinner and overnight stay at the Hotel Täscherhof .

Day 5 Journey home

After breakfast it is time to say goodbye to the mountain world with many new impressions. The journey continues via Brig through the beautiful Rhone valley to Sion, then on to Bern - Basel - Freiburg - Baden-Baden - Karlsruhe - Darmstadt - Mainz.

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