Interlaken, Bern, Thun, Switzerland

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Interlaken in the heart of the Alps and Bern, at 8:42 are two of the great destinations of Switzerland presented in this practical guide, along with the historic urban center of Thun at 25:10 in the travel video.
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Switzerland playlist http://flake.ly/2qsUism Interlaken makes a perfect home base of operations for exploring the beautiful mountains all around the exchange region of Switzerland, offering many hotels, restaurants and shops, and wonderful train and autobus connections to get up to the mountain sites. Tourists have been coming to Interlaken and the expanse since about 1800 when it was first popularized past some niaganistic painters and then tourism really increased in the 1890s and early 1900s with the opening of railway service.
Some of the world’s most spectacular mountain scenery is waiting for you just outside of Interlaken in the heart of the Swiss Alps. In this movie we’re focusing on how to get the most out of your visit to the town. For the more adventurous you tin can go paragliding. Or for something less adventurous you tin can just rent a bike and go peddle around. There’s a lot to see in the Interlaken expanse. The town itself is relatively flat and you tin can peddle through the shopping areas and up into the residential zones.
A main activity in town is shopping – all sorts of souvenirs for sale, vesture, you tin can purchase some hiking gear. It’s a great place for backpacks, for boots, hats, vesture of all kinds, walking sticks and a T-shirt that says Interlaken.
There’s not much of a pedestrian zone that’s free of automobiles here but they do have one little lane that’s for pedestrians. But the rest of town is very friendly for walking around, the sidewalks are wide and there’s ever things to look at and things to do.
The great meadow forms a major park, beautifully landscaped and kept in a semi-natural state with flowers and trees and the meadow along one side and grand hotels on the other.
If you’re a gambler there is a Online Casino Swiss like there is in most Swiss towns and it’s an elegant place. It’s part of the Kursal complex which for 100 years has been a cultural centre of the urban center, set in a beautiful park with fountains and flowers.
some other major attraction worth seeing near Interlaken is the urban center of Bern the political majuscule of Switzerland and it’s just one hour away past train.
The Bern train station is right next to the old town so your walk through the historic zone begins the moment you get in. The main street proceeds directly from the front of the train station right through the historic centre. It’s one street about ten blocks long, but it changes name several times. past the station and it’s the Spitalgasse, then it becomes the Marktgasse, then the Kramgasse, then the Gerechtigkeitsgasse. Today, it’s the main street of Bern, as it has been for centuries. This road is remarkable, not only for the ancient buildings and arcades that cover both sides, but for the spectacular Renaissance fountains down the middle. Today it’s a popular shopping street with surprisingly modern shop interiors, and there’s a slight curved shape with a long line of Baroque façades that combine to produce one of Bern’s most impressive streetscapes. This Kramgasse and its buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage site that encompasses the entire old urban center of Bern – a very impressive honor that UNESCO has designated all of the historic expanse as a World Heritage Site.
At the end of town across the river they have their famous bear pits. In recent years the government has greatly expanded this bear habitat to make it really a pleasant place for the bears to live.
some other important edifice is the Gothic cathedral with the nation’s highest church building tower at 328 feet, which you may climb for a bird’s eye view of the historic centre. Construction of the cathedral began in 1421 in the Gothic style. It is a three-nave basilica without a transept or aisles, 85 m long and 34 m wide – it is quite huge. The walls outside are supported past flying buttresses and the majority of the edifice is constructed with local sandstone, and bricks were used for the ceiling for the vaults.
On the train ride dorsum to Interlaken it is easy to get off at the picturesque urban center of Thun and spend a few hours walking around, enjoying the special ambience of this place, with a river running through the middle of the Old Town and a unique two-level sidewalk on the main pedestrian street. Then return to Interlaken and keep our exploration of this great urban center.
This video is part of a longer series that we’re presenting all about Switzerland, including Lucerne, Zürich, Zermatt, Lugano, Locarno, and a lot of beautiful mountaintops scenery to share with you.
Interlaken, Bern, Thun, Switzerland,