Location: Lucerne

Wonderful hikes through a wide variety of terrain await you on the spectacular Stanserhorn in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden. Its peak, at an altitude of 1,897 meters, towers over the Uri Alps and offers stunning views. From the valley, Stans' local peak is a four-hour climb away, but you…

Located in the geographic centre of Switzerland, Lake Lucerne (German: Vierwaldstaetter See) is the country's fourth-largest lake.

The Kapellbrücke (literally, Chapel Bridge) is a covered wooden footbridge in Lucerne, Switzerland, that spans the Reuss River diagonally. The bridge, named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, is unusual in that it contains a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th century, but several of them, along…

Engelberg is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Obwalden and a small mountain tourist town. The municipality also include the communities of Grafenort, Oberberg, and Schwand in addition to Engelberg itself. Engelberg's municipality is an outlier of Obwalden, surrounded by Bern and Nidwalden and Uri cantons. Engelberg, in central…

The Bürgenstock is a mountain in Switzerland that rises to an altitude of 1,115 metres (3,658 feet). It sits on the lakeshore of Lucerne, though not quite at its centre. There is a resort on the same mountain called Bürgenstock, and it sits at an altitude of 874 metres above…

Enjoy a stunning day trip from Zurich to Lucerne and Stanserhorn, a stunning mountain in the Swiss Alps. On a full-day coach tour of the Swiss Alps from Zurich, ascend to the dizzying summit of Mt. Stanserhorn. Travel across the beautiful Swiss countryside to Lucerne, a charming city. Take a…