Excursions - Brienz (Bernese Oberland)

The Hotel Rothorn Kulm (2244 m.a.s.l.) high above Lake Brienz offers a wonderful view, pleasant rooms, delicious food, and getting there is a quite an extraordinary experience.

The Swiss Open-Air Museum at Ballenberg shows Switzerland as it used to be.

Do you know how Swiss people lived a long time ago? Do you know how to carve wood, to weave baskets or to spin? How to burn charcoal? Have you ever seen how bread was baked in a coal-burning stove? How cheese is fabricated? Ballenbergt shows you Switzerland as it once used to be.

Make your boyhood dreams come true as an apprentice fireman on the legendary Brienz–Rothorn mountain railway! Besides learning all about the line and the vintage 1892 locomotives, you can take a look inside the steam engine, be present when the brakes are tested and help stoke the furnace on the way up to the top. Plus you return home with a personalized fireman’s certificate.

Make your boyhood dreams come true as an apprentice fireman on the legendary Brienz–Rothorn mountain railway! Besides learning all about the line and the vintage 1892 locomotives, you can take a look inside the steam engine, be present when the brakes are tested and help stoke the furnace on the way up to the top. Plus you return home with a personalized fireman’s certificate.

Take the hiking trail from Axalp above Brienz to the idyllic Hinterburgsee lake and watch the chips fly! From July 22 to 28, 2002, eight wood carvers will leave their shops, take their tools and work outdoors.

As a guest on the footplate of the steam train from Brienz up the Rothorn, you get to experience both the marvels of steam and the wonders of nature at first hand. Passing through romantic meadows and chugging alongside precipitous cliff faces, the cog railway climbs 1,678 m to the craggy ridge at the top, with gradients of up to 25 percent in places. The Brienz–Rothorn mountain railway is Switzerland’s only steam railway to provide a daily service.