Mürren Things to Do

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There is a panoramic revolving restaurant, named Piz Gloria, at the summit, which is where the James Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was filmed. The restaurant revolves a full 360 degrees in 55 minutes.

During peak Winter the restaurant would be a place to warm yourself protecting yourself from under freezing temperature. You can relax with a dish and drinks inside the revolving restaurant.

Piz Gloria. What a thrill. I saw the Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service when I was in the ninth grade. It immediately became one of my favorite Bond films. After many years of watching the video and now DVD I never thought I would actually be at Piz Gloria. But here I was. I was really concerned about going here though. I had built up such an expectation before the trip that I was afraid it would be a let down when I finally arrived. But it was not a let down at all.

I have included a link to the Schilthorn/Piz Gloria web site. There is information about the area and also a web cam. I spent many hhurs at my job watching the web cam's at Piz Gloria in the time preceeding my trip from my PC.

Piz Gloria in reality is revolving restaurant that is solar powered. It opens for breakfast and closes at 4 p.m. each day. So if you are planning on dining here you will have to get here early. We did not need a reservation. The menu was very good and the food was very good. The restaurant makes one complete revolution every hour. The view is phenominal.

Gimmelwald is a hamlet of extremely picturesque wooden houses, and this is all there is there: houses and barns, plus the station of the cableway.
The walk from Mürren to Gimmelwald is very easy, because it is almost level, without any steep ascent or descent, and there is a small road (no cars, remember!) not just a path.
This route is along the big rocky terrace in the mountain that allows a panoramic view of the mountains across the Weisse Lütschine valley, with very high snow-capped mountains.

Mürren is at an altitude of 1645 metres above sea level, on a gigantic terrace of rock that overlooks the valley of the Weisse Lütschine river.
Such a location grants a great view of the Jungfrau massif, from the Eiger to the Breithorn peaks. You can admire them from practically anywere in the village, and these are not the only mountains you can see, because on the other side of the valley there is a spectacular range of snowy 4000-metre-high mountains.

Picturesque houses made of wood can be found in lots of places in the Swiss Alps, but I enjoyed these ones more than most of those I saw in other villages. Probably it is because of the absence of cars.
The other thing I liked is that these houses look more "real". I have seen many that looked too perfect, whereas in Mürren they look really "lived in".
By the way, you will probably notice in my pictures a lot of flags. Their number was in fact higher than usual during my visit, because it was just before the National Day.

A very nice and easy hike is from Mürren to Grütschalp or vice versa (Take the cable car from Lauterbrunnen if done this way) It can be done year round and takes a bit more than an hour. You will get to know the topography of the Lauterbrunnen valley and its terraces. The panorama is splendid. The path is almost flat. You will go by Winteregg where you can stop at the restaurant if you like.

The funicular Mürren-Allmendhubel brings you within a few minutes to the top of the 1907 m high Allmendhubel. Enjoy the beatiful view and let yourself be spoilt on our big sun terrace. Or explore the huge hiking region Mürren-Schilthorn. It takes a good 30 minutes to hike up from Mürren and you can take an alternative route back down. After a long hike we have something special for you at Allmendhubel: relax your feet with a walk through our Kneipp path.
In the restaurant they serve typical Swiss mountain restaurant stuff. Like cold platter with cheese and meat with bread, sausages and so on.

Muerren has a variety of slopes of all levels of dificulty. You find beginners runs, intermediate and also for advanced skiers. The best thing about the slopes there was that every run, no matter the color (blue, red) had various parts where you could either go one way as a beginner or the other way as an intermediate skier. The blue runs there are also a little bit more challenging, so it's a great way to push yourself and improve your level. There are 53 km of prepared ski slopes in and around Muerren (213 km slopes in the whole Jungfrau Region), chair lifts, cable cars, 6 chair lifts, 2 t-bars, 45 installations in the whole Jungfrau Region. 35 snow machines are installed to garantie snow sure conditions from December to April.