Where should I visit in Switzerland?

The Einstein Museum in Bern is a lot of fun!

Cities, tiny charming towns, hiking in the Alps? It’s a small country, but still. Personally, I loved Zermat, the town where no cars are allowed at the base of the Matterhorn. You take a perfect little Swiss train up the mountainside to this.

and this in the nice weather.

Saltzburg for music and scenery.
Geneva for urban delights and scenery
Zurich for food and scenery and architecture.

Rent a car and drive around. It is all gorgeous. And everyone speaks French, German, Italian, English and Switzerdeutch.

If you like to eat, this guide may be of some use to you.

Here’s some really wonderful sounding options in Geneva. I think the Red Cross Museum sounds really interesting.

If you like trains, you might enjoy persusing some of this info abut train travel across Switzerland.
Information for railway fans
In Switzerland nearly all railways run electrically but it is possible to find many steam railways such as the Brienzer Rothornbahn or the Furka Railway for instance. There are many interesting mountain railways of all types. In Switzerland most electric trains get their power from a single phase AC network at 15 000V 16⅔Hz. This network uses its own powerlines run with 66 kV and 132 kV, which have, unlike normal power lines, a number of conductors not divisible by 3. Most powerlines for the single phase AC grid of the traction power grid have four conductors. Railway photography is permitted everywhere provided you don’t walk on forbidden areas without permission.

Here is short list of the most remarkable railway lines:

The Glacier Express from St. Moritz to Zermatt, a 8 hours travel in the Swiss Alps.
The Bernina Express from Davos to Tirano, the highest transversal in the Alps, high mountain scenery.
The Jungfraujoch railway, from Interlaken (560 meters) to the Jungfraujoch station (3450 meters) in two hours. Definitely the most impressive journey in the Alps.
The Gornergrat railway, departure from Zermatt to the 3090 meters high Gornergrat.
The Mount Rigi railway, oldest mountain train in Europe.
The Mount Pilatus railway, from Lucerne to the top, the steepest railway in the world.
The Lötschberg is a line connecting Berne and Brig, not considered as a mountain train but still impressive scenery.
The Gotthard with its many spirals connecting Lucerne and Bellinzona
and picking a trip or two.

The Lindt chocolate factory.

This Cheese Factory located within a monastery in Engelberg, Switzerland.

Make sure you go somewhere so that you get an excellent view of the Matterhorn.

I think the “I am 16 going on 17 gazebo” is there

Go to Lauterbrunen. It is absolutely stunning. You will want to take the train (or hike if you are up for it) up to Kleine Scheidegg where you will be at the base of the Eiger, Monch, and Jungfrau – which are the three highest peaks in Switzerland.

…You won’t regret it.

@jlelandg I thought that Gazebo was in Austria. I know a lot of the Sound of Music was filmed in Austria.

@Kardamom you know what! I am wrong. I looked it up, and it was filmed in Salzburg. I think I got these confused because when my friend visited Switzerland she went to Austria in the same weekend. I think they are somewhat similar places, but you’re right, and I’m fail.

@jlelandg The only reason I knew that was because I’m such a SOM geek that I actually watched a reunion of the “Von Trapp” Family on Oprah about a month ago and Julie Andrews was talking about it. The actual gazebo is on an estate, and it a lot smaller than the sound stage version that they recreated to do the dance scene. Also, the girl who played Lisel, fell off one of those benches while they were leaping across and hurt her leg. In early versions of the movie (and also on old VCR tapes) you can see a bandage on her leg under her hose. The current versions have digitally removed the bandage.

But the grand old Matterhorn sure is in Switzerland and I would love to see that someday and compare it to the one at Disneyland, Ha Ha.

@Kardamom I don’t know if I ever told you this, but my husband and I went to the Von Trapp resort in Stowe Vermont and took their history tour. We loved it! I thought for sure my husband would be bored, he has never seen the SOM, has no idea about the story, and for him the Von trapps were the highlight of our trip for him. We met Rosemary, one of Maria’s daughters and a neice of hers. They told the real story of how they left Austria and answered questions, it was great.