"Around Central Switzerland" a Switzerland Travel Page by canolista

Based in Gersau, on Lake Lucerne, I spent a week with family members travelling around visiting various sites which our father, grandfather and great-grandfather had known. We stayed in the Guesthouse Tuebli, a chalet-style guesthouse, and ate mostly in Gersau. Gersau is a small resort town on the north shore of the lake, which, in June, is warm and sunny most of the day. Its backdrop is the Rigi mountain - several good walks, a mountain railway and cable cars, and spectacular views. We used the Tellpass system - you buy a ticket for a week (CHF158) and get two days' free travel and half-price travel for the other five days). This is great, because there are boats on the lake which can take you to many different starting points and integrate efficiently with buses and trains, cable cars and funiculars. We got our money's worth by going to Mt Titlis and Stanshorn one day and Mt Pilatus for another. This used up more than the 158 francs. We also walked from one Rigi peak to another (Kaltbad to Scheidegg) and one stage of the Schweiz walk (Ruetli Meadow - site of the founding of the Swiss federation in 1291) which is a walk all around the southern spur of Lake Lucerne, known as Lake Uri, with one kilometre for each of the Swiss cantons. We also visited Reichenbach falls - where Sherlock Holmes was killed off by Conan Doyle, before being resucitated due to public demand, and climbed down from the Grosse Scheidegg, with stunning views of Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau mountains, to Grindelwald.