If you have one place to visit in Switzerland, no wait, all of Europe, make it Lauterbrunnen.
Now I can feel my Swiss readers shifting in their seats, and by Swiss standards, that’s a massive emotional reaction. I can hear them thinking, but it’s so touristy. Well it is touristy for a reason. The area around is just freaking beautiful and it has a “I am sexy and I know it” kind of vibe – so they have made it easily accessible to reach by all modes of transport and made it full of activities, for the young and the old, the adventurers and the instagrammers, for the Swiss and for the rest of the world.
We have been there in spring, summer and now winter and it was beautiful each time. Look at the magnificent light.
So as you can see there are magnificent mountains all around and you can go up each of them. This time, for New Year’s Eve, we went up Schilthorn of James Bond fame.
To reach the top, one has to go through two stations, we stopped at both.
There was a “thrill walk” at the first station. It was just a metal grid structure where you could see the cliff fall right below your feet. Given my trust in Swiss engineering, I wasn’t finding the walk very thrilling at all until baby bunny dropped his sunglasses through and we saw it free fall for a few seconds before it disappeared in the snow below.
Here every time one flushed in the toilet, there was a James Bond audio playing – saying something different each time – on the lines of we are proud of you, you did great, clapping, etc.
We stayed in Lauterbrunnen for two nights in a small but adequate Airbnb.
For the next two days we went up to Wengen for mostly eating/ drinking hot chocolate and very little skiing (the kids got hungry/ tired/ cold multiple times in a span of couple of hours).
So would we go there again? Yes absolutely! Because it looks different in every season and there is so much more to do!
Is Lauterbrunnen area, the prettiest in Switzerland? No. But it ranks high. Come to Switzerland, I will go there again with you.
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