Cable-Car and Hike in Isenfluh, Switzerland

Accessible by car or local bus, the village of Isenfluh sits over 1,300 ft (400 m) above the Lauterbrunnen Valley. Once in the village, visitors can either hike up or take the aerial cable car to Sulwald (5,000 ft/1,500 m). The Isenfluh cable-car is a two-man operation (one man at the bottom in Isenfluh and one man at the …

Wengen: A Car-Free Alpine Village

Opposite Lauterbrunnen on the other side of the valley sits Wengen, a car-free village in the Swiss Alps. Because Wengen is car-free (minus a few local farm and service vehicles, and electric vehicles for taxiing to and from the railway station), visitors must arrive via train from Lauterbrunnen or Gridelwald or via cable-car from Mannlichen (via Grindelwald). …