LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Below is a list of links that you may find useful when planning your walks in Switzerland.
| 1) More Swiss walks by Stephen and Frances Rabone. At present this contains details of walks around Andermatt, Adelboden, Fiesch, Grindelwald, Kandersteg, Klosters, Leukerbad, Pontresina, Kiental, Grächen, the Lotschental the Saastal and Zermatt. This site was last updated in August 2007 with an account of the Via Engiadina |
2) If you wish to contact me to ask questions or comment on this website you can email me on steverabone@hotmail.com One little point ; please acknowledge any email answer I send you. Sometimes people forget to do this. I like to know whether what I've written is of use to you. |
3) This is an interesting new website about hiking in the Swiss Alps and several other countries. There's an interesting text written by Sandra Munniks and Marko Heuver from the Netherlands and lots of stunning photos. Well worth looking at! |
| 4) Ken Baldry's Swiss walking site is an incredibly useful one containing details of walks of varying levels of difficulty , from easy valley walks to really serious mountain walks needing Alpine equipment and experience. He also describes the Alpine Pass Route, although he did not walk it as a continuous walk. |
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5) An extremely useful website is the Activity Workshop. This includes a detailed account of the Alpine Pass Route as well as lots of day walks in Switzerland. What is really special about this site is that there are some amazing graphics that show the route profile and for those with a GPS receiver the waypoints for the routes. Click here to go to the Alpine Pass Route pages In addition you will find many day walks in Switzerland in a similar style . |
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This link is to a Swiss (German language) site that is basically a series of links to an enormous number of hiking websites , and sites that will be useful to walkers, about Switzerland. In addition, there are descriptions by Ursi Brem for numerous 1-day and 2-day trips, as well as a large number of longer multi-day trails throughout Switzerland. One such route is the Trans Swiss Trail. This trail runs from Porrentruy in northern Swtzerland to Chiasso in the south and is in 31 stages. It sounds a magnificent walk. If you look at this site you will find enough ideas to fill every walking holiday for the rest of your life!! If you can't read German click on this link to have the website translated. You will then need to copy and paste the website URL and select translate from German to English. Click here for translation website The translation will be a little quaint but largely understandable. If you can read German click here to take you direct to the site. |
| 7) Another interesting site about the Alpine Pass Route is Dwight Peck's website. This covers the section from Sargans to Kandersteg, with some excellent photos. It also gives an insight into walking the route in poor weather!! |
| 8)Click here to go to a page in this website showing Swiss walking maps on the Internet. Tick the box next to Hiking Trails and then enlarge the map with the plus sign and all the footpaths in Switzerland show on the map. The maps can be enlarged to a very large scale and also have satelite imagery. |
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10) Most Swiss towns and villages now have websites. They usually list accommodation, cable-car details, local hiking suggestions and often have webcams. Almost all appear to have a standard URL - www.(town name).ch. |
| 11) Travel details can be found on various websites. The Swiss Railways (SBB) gives timetable details of virtually all public transport in Switzerland and even includes fare details. This can be found at www.sbb.ch. The site is available in English by clicking on the words in English on the site's homepage. |
| 12) The German Railways website can also be useful and surprisingly seems to include the odd service not on the SBB's timetable. This can be found at http://bahn.hafas.de and once again includes an English version. |