Category: Fun
Fun activities to do in Switzerland that aren’t hiking or biking. For similar activities in other countries, please select the desired country under the Travel menu.
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Every year in April, Ochsner Sport hosts the Zürich Marathon, Half-Marathon and 10 k races in downtown Zürich. Two years ago, my husband and I ran the 10 k and this year we ran the half-marathon.
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The Transportation Museum (Verkehrshaus) in Luzern is a museum dedicated to all modes of transportation – trains, planes, automobiles, bicycles, gondolas, and even space travel.
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In September, I took friends on the Chüebodensee loop hike with a detour up to the Wildmadfurggeli at Elm (10 km hike with 857 m of ascent and decent).
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Every three years, Bad RagARTz hosts the Swiss Triennial of Sculpture, a large open-air sculpture festival, in Bad Ragaz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein and Altes Bad Pfäfers. In 2024, we took the opportunity to stroll around the town of Bad Ragaz to check out the festival’s many impressive, weird, and wonderful sculptures.
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HR Giger was a Swiss artist, most famous for his work on the Alien movies. This museum contains the largest collection of his work anywhere, along with his private collection of works by artists that inspired him.
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Stage 4 of the Alpine Panorama Trail (Route 3) is a 12 km long trail with 500 m ascent and 1000 m descent that goes from Schwägalp to Stein, SG. We also did two side stops – a trip up to the top of Säntis and a stop at the Säntis Cheese Factory.
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While in the Jungfrau region, we took the train up to the highest train station in the world at the Jungfraujoch and we went on two short hikes – a loop hike from Grindlewald First to the Bachalpsee, and a point-to-point hike from Kleine Scheidegg to Alpiglen.
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The Rosengart Collection Museum in Luzern is the private collection of art-dealer Siegfried Rosengart and his daughter Angela. The collection is mainly comprised of works by Pablo Picasso (with whom they had a personal relationship) and Paul Klee.
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We did the library tour, vaulted cellar tour and the exhibition space, where we saw the original drawing of the Abbey grounds from 900. In the vaulted celler, we saw the Evangelium Longum, a manuscript from 894.
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The Height Route at Flumserberg is a short (8 km) hike that winds its way down (461 descent) from the top of the Maschgenkamm gondola station to the top of the Chrüz chair lift. At Chrüz, we rode the super-fun Floomzer mountain coaster back to Tannenboden.
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A fun and exciting white water rafting trip on the Lütschine river in Interlaken, Switzerland.
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The Chrüzegg Panorama trail at Atzmännig is Bergstation -> Chrüzegg -> Talstation. This 7 km trail has 190 m of ascent and, 520 m descent. It starts at the top of the chair lift and then winds its way back to the parking lot by walking along the top of the arena.