KanderstegPhoto Tour Page (scroll down for pictures)

Just 30 minutes by train from picturesque lake Thun in the Jungfrau region is our base village of Kandersteg (3,857ft.) in the Kandertal valley. As you approach the valley, the first thing you notice is the contrast between the fertile green meadows that line the river Kander and the high cliff walls that appear impenetrable. Above the cliffs are numerous lush valleys that wind deeper into the mountains before splitting into even more secluded valleys that take hikers to remote glacial lakes, hidden alps and quaint mountaineering huts. Towering above this maze of hiking trails are hanging glaciers that lead to the summits of the Doldenhorn (11,932ft.), Frundenhorn (11,050ft.), Oeschinenhorn (11,434ft.) and Bluemlisalphorn (11,994ft.). Each day you are exposed to an entirely different scene of the same play that has been the obsession of hikers and mountaineers for more than a hundred years. Below it all rests our base village of Kandersteg. The Kandersteg hiking region is pristine. The untouched natural beauty of this region will transport you back in time to a place almost forgotten in the rush of the modern world.