The Glacier Express runs though the Rhine Gorge, Graubünden. Known as the slowest express train in the world, the train takes a sedate seven-and-a-half hour journey, with 291 bridges and dramatic scenery, between St Moritz and Zermatt.
Photograph: Christof Sonderegger
In operation for more than a century, the Schiller paddle steamer offers a waterside view of the coastline of Lake Lucerne. As it wends its way around the lake, passengers can visit the pretty villages from all four of the cantons that surround this Swiss lake. Photograph: Christian Perret
It’s always peaceful on Lake Staz between St Moritz and Celerina, one of the Engadin’s many mountain lakes. Take a dive into the clear blue water from a jetty and admire the rich green of the surrounding Staz forest.
Photograph: Daniel Martinek
The view from Lake Taelli on the Eggishorn in the Valais. To the left, through the panoramic mountainscape, which includes the Jungfrau and the Mönch, sweeps billions of tons of ice in the form of the majestic Aletsch glacier. Photograph: Christof Sonderegger/Switzerland Tourism
Craggy rocks surround Lake Oeschinen, high above the resort of Kandersteg in the Bernese Oberland. Easily accessible by chairlift from the village, spend some time exploring some of the 310 miles (500km) of trails around the lake before making your way back to on foot. Photograph: PR
Home of the International Olympic Committee since 1914, Lausanne is a cosmopolitan city with the air of a grand resort. Bounded by sunny slopes of vineyards on one side and the glittering Lake Geneva on the other, Lausanne offers rich cultural delights as well as breathtaking natural beauty.
Photograph: Régis Colombo/www.diapo.ch
Lush alpine pasture in the picturesque Val de Bagnes in the Valais. Enjoy a hike to the vast Mauvoisin dam, through ever-changing landscape of snowcapped mountains, ribbons of glacier, tunnels, streams and fields of flowers. Photograph: Yves Garneau
Neatly slotted into a loop in the Aare River, Bern’s picturesque old town is on the Unesco list of historic cities and towns. The architecture provides a visual history of its construction, from the 12th-century foundations of the Nydegg Castle to the jutting spire of the 17th-century sandstone and limestone cathedral. Photograph: PR
