Swiss Alps Winter Activity Week (EDCWA)

Duration: 8 days (may vary)
Areas: Switzerland
Tour types: Nature & Wildlife, Winter Adventures

Description

Our base for this trip is the famous village of Kandersteg, full of Swiss charm and located in a valley ringed by the imposing snow-capped summits of the Bernese Oberland. Cable cars lead up to the Oeschinensee, a beautiful frozen lake surrounded by ice-clad cliffs, and to the high valley of Sunbuhl at 2000m. There are a few downhill pistes, but most winter visitors come for the wide range of other winter activities available, including cross-country skiing, winter walking, ski-touring, ice-skating, curling and tobogganing. Our busy programme combines a full range of activities, all of them relatively undemanding, and some of them easy to master!

Tour itinerary

Day 1

Start Kandersteg.

Day 2-3

Two days of cross-country skiing; instruction in the mornings, guided tours in the afternoons.

Day 4

To Oeschinensee Lake by cable car - tobogganing back into town. Ice-skating in the afternoon.

Day 5

Free day. Options include train to Interlaken, or downhill or cross-country skiing.

Day 6

An easy half-day snowshoe walk. Afternoon back at the ice-rink to try curling.

Day 7

Walk from Sunbuhl cable car towards Gemmi Pass, either on a compact snow-track or with snowshoes.

Day 8

End Kandersteg.