"Lake Lucerne and Environs" Lake of Lucerne by sandysmith

Lake of Lucerne Travel Guide: 26 reviews and 94 photos

hiking above the lake of Lucerne - Lake of Lucerne

Lake Lucerne

During our Vitznau based vacation Sept 2006 we made several excursions around Lake Lucerne and on this page I'd like to share some tips of where we went - a mixture of those wonderful swiss funiculars and cable-cars and a bit of hiking too.

my mate marmot

Where we went: Here I'll give a brief outline of our daily excursions - some is covered on Vitznau and Engelberg pages so please check those too.

Rigi, walk to Kaltbad, cable-car down to Weggis, boat over to Burgenstock
Back to Vitznau for a walk around the village
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Boat to Beckenreid, cable-car to Klewenalp (Marmots here) 2 hr hike over to Niederickenback. Cable-car down to Dalenwil, trains to Stans. Funicular up to Stanserhorn for view before heading back to Vitznau.
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Boat to Treib and funicular up to Seelisburg - part of Weg of Schweiz path
Return journey in funicular and boat ove to Brunnen. Bus to Morschach and cable-car to Stoos mountain village. cable car for view of Fronalpstock.
Down on funicualr to Schywz, train to Art Goldau for train up Rigi and down on RigiBahn to Vitznau - well that was good use of our Tell PAss that day!
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Trip to Engelberg, early start to get right up to Klein Titlis and to see lakes of Trubsee and Engslensee and then the monastery and cheese factory.
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Time for a hike next - the long hike across Rig mountain to Urmiberg and down to Brunnen.
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Pilatus - the round trip, kriens for cable-car up and returning by cog railway to Alpnachstad. Train to Lucerne and then castle boat cruise over to Kussnacht am Rigi. Bus back to Rigi - and a late afternoon trip up to Kaltbad, just because we can with our Pass!
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Last day in Vitznau we did the rest of the local walk before taking private gondola up to Wissifluh and walked over and down to Gersau. Dinner that evening with Rebibi and Remo.
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Last day we headed off to Lucerne to see the town in the sunshine too! and spend the last night there in jail - the converted hotel that is. Next morning it was the journewy back to the airport at Basle - but had time to enjoy a brief walk around this city.

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In a nutshell:wonderful holiday destination for trips out and hikes

Last visit to Lake of Lucerne: Sep 2006
Intro Updated Aug 7, 2008
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Reviews (10)

Küssnacht am Rigi Things to Do (10)

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Klewenalp Hike Options Things to Do (10)

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View from Klewenalp Things to Do (10)

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Kid friendly Klewenalp Things to Do (10)

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Written Oct 2, 2006

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globetrott Nov 16, 2007 at 12:38 AM

an interesting page with excellent photographs, it is a pity I did not have the time to go to these mountains, Hammetschwand Lift is also great !
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Trekki Sep 27, 2006 at 10:21 AM

Wow, beautiful pictures :-) More more more :-) and evening hugs to the big island :-)
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richiecdisc Sep 10, 2005 at 3:02 PM

I'll be back when the photos are visible. :S
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barbskie Aug 23, 2005 at 1:42 AM

Nice pic of the lake Sandy! Oh, Buergenstock, an expensive area ;-)
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Jenniflower Aug 22, 2005 at 4:01 PM

Wow stunning opening photo! I look forward to reading more Sandy! Have been to Interlaken but keen to go here next year :) Jen x