Switzerland - Glacier Express

You can enjoy the impressive mountain scenery between St.Moritz/ Davos and Zermatt (or vice versa) on a 8-hour journey in the world's slowest express train. In both summer and winter, the Glacier Express travels through this UNESCO World Heritage region and climbs to its peak over the Oberal Pass at an altitude of 2.033 meters. Throughout your journey, you will hear fascinating background information and stories about the route over the train's information system. And, if you begin to feel a little hungry along the way, you can go to the train's restaurant or you can serve the delicious specialties at your site.

The Glacier Express in the Davos railway station. Davos (1.540 m) is the Europe's highest - altitude resort.

Glacier Express

Albula Valley

Filisur (1.032 m)

Thusis (720 m)

Confluence of Anterior Rhine and Posterior Rhine (the two sources of the Rhine), near Reichenau, in the canton of Graubünden or canton of (the) Grisons

Upper RhineValley, from Bonaduz to Chur

Rhine cutting through Flims rockslide debris (it happened about 10.000 years ago, in 8000 BC)

Rhine Gorge or Ruinaulta (630 m) is a canyon created by the Anterior Rhine between Reichenau and Ilanz/Glion in the debris of the Flims Rockslide, just upstream of its confluence with the Posterior Rhine at Reichenau in the canton of Graubünden or the canton of (the) Grisons

Ilanz (a former municipality in the canton of Graubünden or the canton of the Grisons)

The ceiling of the Glacier Express

Ilanz (698 m) is the first town on the Rhine. The Rhine headwaters gathered here to become the valley Anterior Rhine.

Disentis/Muster (1.142 m, a village and a municipality in the canton of (the) Graubünden, or canton of (the) Grisons)

The Glacier Express traversing a Viaduct

Sedrun (1.404 m), canton of (the) Graubünden, or canton of (the) Grisons, nearby of the Anterior Rhine

Oberalp Pass (2033 m), the highest point of the journey

Oberalpsee (a lake just below Oberalp Pass on the side of the canton of Uri)

Andermatt (1435 m)

Urseren Valley

Realp

The Glacier Express in the Oberwald railway station

The Glacier Express in the Goms Valley

Fiesch

The restaurant of the Glacier Express

The Weisshorn (4.506 m) above the Matter Valley (German: Mattertal). The Matter Valley is located in southestern Switzerland, south of the Rhone Valley, in the canton of Valais. The village of Zermatt is the most important settlement of the valley.

The Glacier Express in Tasch

Tasch

The Matterhorn (4.478 m) is a mountain of the Alps

Zermatt (1.604 m)