Nature

Enjoyable white water in a stunning and beautiful landscape: Popular rafting trip suitable for everybody through the famous Vorderrhein Gorge (Ruinaulta) commonly known as the Swiss Grand Canyon.

The area consists of twenty-eight hectares of plants, trees and flowers. Rock gardens lie between streams and waterfalls, revealing mountain flora from all over the world while greenhouses shelter tropical plants from the five continents.

This delightful park lies in the middle of the massive boulder-strewn wilderness of Goldau and is home to much wildlife. Deer, mufflons, billy goats and chamois are living in a free zone while bears, wolves, lynxes, marmots, wild pigs, foxes, wild cats, owls and racoons are within a safe compound.

The Blausee Nature Park is the bijoux of the Bernese Alps. This deep blue lake with its crystal clear water is located in a dreaming, approximately 20 hectare nature park.

The Papiliorama is a fascinating exotic world, where various diurnal species fly around a tropical forest environment in total freedom.

Between April and the end of October, charming wine-growing villages fringing the lake beckon invitingly to visitors. St. Peter's Isle, situated in the middle of Lac de Bienne, or Lake Biel , is but a stone's throw away from the wine-growing villages of Tüscherz, Wingreis, Twann, Ligerz, La Neuveville, Erlach und Lüscherz.

A natural gem – thanks to their subtropical climate, the Brissago Islands are a plant-lover's paradise.

The oldest zoological park in Switzerland was founded in 1869. On 80 hectares, visitors can observe 16 native and formerly native animals like deer, bear, lynx, wolf, wildcat, marmot, hares, elk, wild boar, and the Przewalski horse.

People were fascinated by the 300 m high Staubbach Falls as early as the Middle Ages. The milky-white waters thundering down over dark green rocks have inspired painters, poets and travel writers over the centuries.

Most of the local wildlife is represented in a park with a surface area of 35,000 square metres: ibex, mouflons, deer, chamois, roe deer, wild boar, eagle owls, marmots, foxes, wild cats, lynx and black bears are all at home here.