Family experiences: Adventure

The journey from Engelberg to Ristis serves as the starting point of the Walenpfad, a popular high-altitude hike from Ristis to Bannalp. The cable car ride up to Ristis, featuring breathtaking mountain panoramas, is worth the trip itself.

This suspension rope and bike park is located on the Flüela Pass, right by the “Stilli” bus stop. Enjoy extraordinary thrills and spills on five courses with varying levels of difficulty. The children’s course perfectly tailored to younger visitors.

The “Mirror, mirror” exhibition at the Technorama Winterthur brings together over 40 enjoyable and thought-provoking experiments from the virtual world behind mirrors.

Inspired by the Niagara Falls and created over seven years of painstaking manual labour: the rock gallery of the Roffla Gorge.

Discover the Taubenlochschlucht gorge near Biel/Bienne. Steep rock faces, wooden footbridges and the sound of the river Schüss accompany you through the Bernese Jura. You will experience one of the most popular excursion destinations in the Biel/Bienne region.

This augmented-reality digital game is a new attraction offered by TéléMarécottes. You can play it on your smartphone or tablet while exploring the area around La Creusaz on foot!

Discover Areuse Gorge. It is a study in contrasts: sometimes wide open, sometimes narrow, with burbling waters and spaces of deep silence.

The entrance to the Gasterntal Valley leads through the narrow Chluse Gorge. This passageway was used from earliest times. Mules were used on this narrow pass, which is the first steep ascent on the way to Lötschen Pass.

A nature experience that really gets under your skin: This is the Wolfsschlucht Gorge in Thal Nature Park in the Solothurn Jura region. It is also an ideal adventure playground for children.

Not far from the vibrant hustle and bustle of the city of Bern you’ll find the Sense-Schwarzwasser nature reserve. Here, large glacial meltwater rivers have dug impressive gorges into the molasse rock.

A trip to the Breggia Gorges is a real time travelling experience. In this part of the Mendrisiotto along the Breggia River you will find some unusual geological formations.

An unforgettable experience, pure adventure; that is Flying Fox. On the six courses of varying difficulty you can slowly approach your limits. You cross challenging balance bridges, hanging bridges and tyrolean slides loaded with action.

The Suspension Rope Park on the Pradaschier Mountain is equipped in such a way that even children from ages 10 upwards (accompanied by adults) can have fun.

The Schöllenen Gorge is probably the most legendary section of the historic Gotthard route. On the Devil's Bridge over the roaring Reuss, you can get an idea of how hard and dangerous the path across the Alps once was.

Take a seat in a bob and listen to the instructions, then get yourself pulled up to the top of the run by a cable. Attention: go!

The Secret of Auge is an outdoor detective enigma game that brings players back to 17th Century in Fribourg.

Crossing the Schin Gorge between Tiefencastel, Alvaschein and Sils in Domleschg was not for nervous travellers.

Ballons du Léman offers several exceptional hot-air balloon flights, from discovery flights to fondue tastings on board a balloon or high-altitude flights. They operate all year round in French-speaking Switzerland.

Experience fast-paced tobogganing fun on Mount Pilatus: The 1350-metre-long Fräkmüntegg summer toboggan run offers thrills with a view of Lake Lucerne and the surrounding mountains.

The name Tüfelsschlucht means “The Devil’s Gorge” and this is considered to be one of the most beautiful of the numerous gorges in the Jura. The 2.2km long gorge winds its way along the Cholersbach Stream and is connected by 32 bridges and catwalks.

A highly attractive and 1.9 kilometre-long tobogganing slope will set many tobogganing fans' pulse racing. The start is easily reached via chair lift.

The Foxtrail Furisto takes you on a unique search for clues. As a team, you will solve puzzles and follow clues so as not to lose the trail of Fredy Fox.

The tin toboggan on the Brunni is located at an altitude of 1600 m right next to the mountain station of the Brunni cable car and the Ristis Restaurant.

The Beckenried–Klewenalp cable car takes you comfortably to 1,600 metres above Lake Lucerne. A wide range of possibilities await you on Klewenalp – from varied hiking trails to excursion destinations such as Stockhütte or Niederbauen.

One of the most fun and varied flow trails is located on the Marbachegg, where the Emmental and the Entlebuch meet. In addition, a breathtaking view of the imposing Schrattenfluh, the striking Hohgant and the Bernese Alps awaits you.

You can experience nature up close with Wild und Wald. Guided tours take you through the wildlife of the Solothurn Jura.

Accessible to all types of hiker, this easy route takes you from the village of Saillon to the Farinet footbridge over the Salentze gorges.

The Stockhorn is the gateway to the Bernese Oberland. Its striking rock head can already be seen from the Aare valley. The cable car takes you up in two sections, over the Hinterstockensee directly to the mountain station at 2190 meters.

As visitors enter the Valais, they are greeted by impressive mountain cliffs and a waterfall that is, unfortunately, smaller than it used to be.

Descend 359 steps into the Viamala Gorge in Graubünden. Below you stand in front of 300-meter-high rock faces, rock cirques formed by the water and the roaring Hinterrhein. Historic bridges and paths tell of the time of the muleteers.

In the Valais town of Leukerbad, follow a steel footbridge through the wild Dala Gorge and draw warm thermal water directly from the spring with a rope pull. A suspension bridge leads you to the 35-meter-high waterfall.

The name is already promising: “Pichoux” means 1,000 springs.

Almost as soon as your trip begins at the Rhine Falls, you will experience the Rhine Falls from up close before gliding down the Rhine into the “Rhineland Amazon”. After around 30 minutes, your party will reach the Rheinau power station, where your boat will have to pass the first weir. This requires you to leave the boat and walk 100 metres along the track while the ship is pulled to the other side on a trolley – a truly unique spectacle!

Deep in the forest in the heart of the Charmey ski region is a winter park with plenty of varied activities for young and old alike. Bounè Rodzo is the name of this winter oasis, which is open free of charge to sledding, skiing and snowshoe fans. A unique, fun experience to enjoy with family or friends!

Sit in the toboggan and whiz 3 kilometres through 31 curves downhill. The longest toboggan run in Switzerland in Churwalden combines fast-paced action with an impressive Graubünden mountain panorama.