Via Alpina - the best of

From Engelberg to Grindelwald, Gstaad and Montreux | 6 days

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The Via Alpina is the best-known long-distance hiking trail in Switzerland. From east to west, the number 1 hiking route connects the most beautiful hiking highlights across the country over 400 km from Vaduz in Liechtenstein to Lake Geneva in Montreux. The Via Alpina, that is experiencing Switzerland, up close!

Best of Via Alpina, this selection are the most beautiful and best-known sections of the Via Alpina from Central Switzerland to the Bernese Oberland, into the wide Simmental and Saanenland, across the language border to Montreux on the Mediterranean-like Riviera at Lake Geneva. Thanks to the support of railroads, post buses and cable cars, the stages are somewhat shorter and offer plenty of enjoyment.

On this comfort trekking you hike with a light daypack. Your luggage will be transported from hotel to hotel.

Via Alpina, discover Switzerland up close:

Start the pleasure trekking in the monastery village of Engelberg, under the spell of the Titlis and hike to one of the most beautiful mountain lakes in the Swiss Alps, the Engstlensee, surrounded by thousands of Alpine roses.
Discover the thundering Reichenbach Falls near Meiringen and the scene of Sherlock Homes' final battle.
Under angels and horns and the imposing Eiger North Face via Grosse and Kleine Scheidegg to Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen
From Adelboden and the Vogellisi to the picturesque mountain village of Lenk and on to the gentle Saanenland and glamorous Gstaad
Across the language border into French-speaking Switzerland on the rocky cliff of the Rochers de Naye with a magnificent view of Lake Geneva
Finally, cross the finish line of the Via Alpina in Montreux.

Dominik Abt