Travel on the luxury MOB Golden Pass Express panoramic, historic Belle Epoque, and express trains from Montreux on Lake Geneva to Interlaken via Château d’Oex, Gstaad, and Zweisimmen in the Swiss Alps with easy onward connections to Lucerne, Bern, and Gruyères. The MOB Golden Pass trains connect Montreux with Alpine villages including Gstaad, Zweisimmen, and … Read more
Ticket prices for traveling on the luxury MOB Golden Pass panoramic, historic Belle-Epoque, and express trains from Montreux to Zweisimmen and Interlaken are amongst the cheapest of all the panorama railways in Switzerland. Seat reservations are recommended but not obligatory. All trains on the panorama railway line between Montreux and Zweisimmen (or on to Interlaken) … Read more
Travel on luxury MOB Golden Pass Express, Panoramic, or Belle Epoque trains on the panorama railway from Montreux on Lake Geneva to Interlaken via Zweisimmen in the Swiss Alps. The ticket prices on the different trains are the same. Trains connect Montreux and Zweisimmen about hourly in two hours via the very scenic Golden Pass … Read more
Les Bains de la Gruyère in Charmey is a modern thermal spa with indoor and outdoor hot-water pools, saunas, hammams, and wellness treatments in the Fribourg Pre-Alps of Switzerland. Les Bains de la Gruyère in Charmey is a day spa complex with warm pools fed by natural hot spring water, steam rooms, saunas, a children’s … Read more
Getting to Gruyères is easy by car or public transportation (train) from the Lake Geneva region and Bern making this historic wall-enclosed town with castle very popular with day-trippers. Driving is usually the fastest option when traveling to Gruyères in Switzerland but public transportation is also a sensible choice. Gruyères is a romantic small, hill-top … Read more
La Maison du Gruyère Fromagerie de Demonstration is a cheese-making dairy factory open to visitors near the popular wall-enclosed old town and Gruyères castle in Switzerland. Gruyère is one of the world’s best-known cheeses and named after the Gruyères region in the Swiss canton Fribourg. At its heart is the small, wall-enclosed hilltop town Gruyères, … Read more
The chocolate factory of Cailler in Broc near Gruyères in Fribourg is a pleasant day trip from Lake Geneva that combines well with visiting the old town and Château de Gruyères. La Maison Cailler welcomes visitors to one of Switzerland’s oldest and most important chocolate factories. During the factory tour, visitors learn how chocolate came … Read more
The largest collection of works by the Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger is in his museum of science fiction and fantasy art in Gruyères. The four-century-old Château St Germain in the small wall-enclosed medieval town Gruyères in Fribourg, Switzerland, is the unlikely setting of the HR Gigermuseum. This museum has the largest permanent collection of … Read more
Gruyères is a romantic small town famous for its historic castle, HR Giger Museum, and of course cheese. It is a great day-trip destination from the Lake Geneva region and Bern. The small town Gruyères with its lovely castle and historic market-town layout is in the La Gruyère district of the Canton Fribourg (Freiburg) in … Read more
The Tibet Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland, is an important collection of historic Buddhist sculptures, paintings and ritual items from the Himalayas. The Alain Bordier Foundation’s Tibet Museum in the heart of medieval Gruyères in Switzerland has an important collection of around 300 items including Buddhist sculptures, paintings, drawings and religious ritual instruments. These items mostly … Read more