The Swiss Travel Pass gives travellers unlimited access to the country’s panoramic mountain trains and public transportation in more than 90 towns and cities.
Looking out the Bernina Express windows is like seeing the pages of Heidi, Switzerland’s most famous children’s book, come to life.
From Chur, I travelled on two of the panoramic train lines — the Bernina Express and the Glacier Express, doing part of the route that takes passengers between Zermatt and St. Moritz in just under eight hours. One-way on the Bernina Express takes four hours. Although the Bernina line ends in Tirano, Italy, I opted to get off at a small village called Le Prese near the border and enjoy lunch at Raselli Sport Hotel, before taking a tour of the Raselli family’s nearby herb farm that produces 15 per cent of Switzerlands’ herbs and 20 per cent of the herbs that go into Ricola cough drops.
Most frescos inside are from the 14th century but one is also from the 18th century “because every bishop wants to leave his footprint,” says our tour guide Marlen Helmi Brunold. Walker said the organization’s goal is to help everyone appreciate these sites, which include four natural sites and nine cultural sites. The Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch, a protected area near and around the Swiss Alps, is listed under the natural category in UNESCO.
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