Visit Stunning Switzerland Sightseeing Swiss Style & Hiking Gear for Suisse Tour and Trips That are Amazing<<>> Vacations Switzerland sightseeing places are many and mostly to do with the stunning scenery. It is famous for its exotic chocolates, finest handmade clocks and luxury watches. Other specialties are embroidered linen, music boxes, woodcarvings, Swiss cheese and Swiss army knives. Swiss hiking gear is popular because of the many visitors that flock here for the walking. The country’s sovereignty and neutrality have long been honored by the major European powers, it was not involved in either of the two World Wars, and it retains a strong commitment to neutrality.
Switzerland is a small, landlocked country in the heart of Europe and has a strategic location at the crossroads of central Europe. It is divided into three major geographical areas: The Alps that accounts for around sixty percent of the land, the Middle land at around thirty percent of the land, and Jura with about ten percent of the landmass. It is made up of twenty-three cantons or administration areas. Italian, German and French are the official languages of the country and English is the second main language. It is blessed with stunning scenery, the bounties of nature and is one of the most most popular tourist destinations in the entire world. A vacations mecca.
So it’s skiing vacations in the winter and hiking and climbing vacations in the summer for the gear tourists. It is known worldwide as a summer and winter sports paradise. Here is where people first skied for fun.
Switzerland is home for around twenty percent of the Alps. And approximately one hundred mountain peaks are close to or higher than 4000 meters (13125 feet), ideal for climbing, skiing, snowboarding, biking, hiking and other recreational activities.
Many mountain areas have been developed for tourism; there are trains, cog railways, aerial cable cars and other means of transportation to make it easy for the visitor as they tour Suisse CH.
The highest peak is Monte Rosa at 4634m and one of the most popular is the Matterhorn at 4478.
The country is famous for its alpine passes and tunnels, which are important traffic arteries between the northern and the southern part of Europe.
There are many lakes here in Switzerland, from the large Lake Geneva to the hundreds of tiny little lakes in the mountains that are dammed-up to drive water turbines of the renowned hydro power plants.
Switzerland even has a National Park that was founded in 1941 as one of the first national parks in Europe. This solitary park is located in the very east of Switzerland in the Graubünden Canton and its official name is ‘Parc Naziunal Svizzer’. Its attraction is magnificent alpine scenery with forests, alpine flowers and wildlife such as the bearded vulture, golden eagle, capricorn, chamois, stag and marmots. The major activities in the park are hiking on the eighty km plus of trails and wildlife watching. There are no bikes, no tents and no fires or stoves allowed in the park and there is no such thing as an overnight permit! It takes about 2.5 hours from Zürich by car to Zernez the gateway to the national park and here you will find the visitor center. There is one road that runs through the national park, it is called "Pass dal Fuorn" and it connects Zernez with Müstair, a remote valley close to the Italian border. There are nine parking lots P1 to P9, which provide access to the various hiking trails.
Swiss cities and towns like Basel, Bern, cosmopolitan Geneva, Gstaad, Interlaken, Lausanne, St Moritz, Zermatt and Zürich make great bases and warrant visits and vacations in their own right.
This country is more than cheese, cows and traditional timber houses set if flower strewn meadows. Why not find out for yourself visit Switzerland.
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