InterlakenTravel Guide

A funicular ride straight up from Interlaken's town centre to a viewing platform between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, with the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau peaks lined up on the horizon.

"Top of Europe" — the highest railway station on the continent at 3,454m, reached via a dramatic cogwheel train through tunnels bored into the Eiger itself, ending at an ice palace and glacier viewpoint.

A glacially carved valley with 72 waterfalls cascading down sheer cliff walls, including Staubbach Falls right beside the village — the visual inspiration for Tolkien's Rivendell.

A boat trip on a turquoise glacial lake ringed by mountains, with stops at villages like Iseltwald (an Instagram favourite thanks to a lakeside jetty).

Interlaken is one of the world's best-known paragliding launch points, with tandem flights taking off from Beatenberg or the Schilthorn over the valley between the two lakes.

A cable car up to a ridge offering the First Cliff Walk (a walkway bolted to a cliff face), a mountain cart track, and a giant zipline over the valley.

A vintage cogwheel railway from 1893 climbing to an alpine botanical garden and panoramic viewpoint over both lakes and the Bernese Alps.

Ten glacier-fed waterfalls thundering inside the mountain itself, reached via tunnels and lifts carved into the rock — the only glacier waterfalls in Europe accessible from inside.

A network of stalactite caves above Lake Thun, with an underground waterfall and legend tying them to a dragon-slaying local saint.

A boat trip past lakeside castles and the town of Spiez, with the Niesen and Stockhorn peaks framing the water — quieter and more castle-focused than the Brienz cruise.