Murren is a captivating and picturesque alpine village positioned within the Swiss Alps that provides a singular winter vacation expertise for Singaporeans looking for journey, leisure, and breathtaking mountain views.
Stay in Murren as a base and you’ll simply journey to the two,970-metre Schilthorn summit by cable automotive that provides 360-degree panoramic views of the Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau and greater than 200 different peaks.
The small village has a inhabitants of fewer than 450 folks. Everyone is aware of everybody in Murren and therein lies the appeal of Murren, making me fall in love with it throughout my 3D2N keep.
Here’s why you need to contemplate visiting Murren in your winter trip, together with some particulars on how you can get there and what to do when you arrive.
Getting to Murren from Zurich or Interlaken
The most handy strategy to get to Murren from Zurich is by taking a prepare to Lauterbrunnen, which takes roughly 2 hours and quarter-hour. From there, you may take a cable automotive as much as Murren, which takes about quarter-hour. The cable automotive journey itself is an expertise, providing beautiful views of the encircling mountains and valleys.
Alternatively, in case you are spending an extended time in Switzerland, contemplate making a go to to Interlaken first to discover first, Jungfrau, Top of Europe, the best summit in the entire of Europe and the UNESCO heritage web site, Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsc. Thereafter, you may switch through prepare and bus from Interlaken to Stechelberg (about 42 minutes, R 62 bus from Interlaken to Interlaken Ost, then take the prepare to Lauterbrunnen, Bahnhof, adopted by the B 141 bus to Stechelberg, Shilthornbahn), adopted by a 12 minutes cable automotive journey from Stechelberg to Murren. This was the itinerary I used to be on.
Be positive to get the Swiss Travel Pass to get pleasure from value financial savings for limitless prepare, bus, cable vehicles and even ferry rides round the entire of Switzerland.
Attractions in Murren:
1. Skiing and Snowboarding
Murren is a paradise for skiers and snowboarders, with over 200 km of well-groomed slopes appropriate for all talent ranges. There are quite a lot of ski lifts and cable vehicles that may take you to the totally different ski areas, together with the well-known Schilthorn, which affords an unimaginable view of the encircling mountains.
In the village itself, you may head over to the Swiss Ski School Mürren-Schilthorn, to attend a gaggle or non-public ski or snowboarding class. For tools, you may lease them over on the close by Intersport Murren-Schilthorn sports activities retailer.
1. Winter Hiking
If snowboarding isn’t your factor, Murren affords loads of winter mountain climbing alternatives. The village has a community of well-maintained winter mountain climbing trails that take you thru the beautiful winter panorama, with stunning views of the mountains and valleys. Just take a look at how stunning the world is, even when all the pieces is coated in winter white:
If you’re heading as much as Schilthorn or Pia Gloria, the Skyline Walk on the Birg center station enables you to stare into the abyss under. For those that are extra adventurous, you too can contemplate occurring the Thrill Walk, a 200-metre lengthy rocky path down among the many vertical partitions of the rock massif:
2. Ice Skating
Murren has an outside ice rink the place you may get pleasure from a fun-filled day of ice skating with your loved ones and mates.
3. Alpine Spa
After a day of snowboarding or winter mountain climbing, deal with your self to some leisure on the Alpine Spa in Murren. The spa affords quite a lot of remedies and services, together with a sauna, steam room, and sizzling tub, all with beautiful views of the mountains. The locals appear to get pleasure from this quite a bit and we noticed a bunch of teenagers having fun with an outside spa after we handed by.
4. James Bond World
If you’re a fan of James Bond, you’ll want to go to the James Bond World in Murren. You might want to take a brief cable automotive journey up from Murren to Schilthron.
The Schilthorn grew to become well-known as a location for the 1969 James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
The revolving restaurant on the summit, which rotates round its personal axis as soon as each 45 minutes, owes its present title Piz Gloria to the movie manufacturing. Visitors can comply with in James Bond’s footsteps within the interactive Bond World exhibition or on the 007 Walk of Fame.
While you’re up at Pia Gloria, contemplate finishing the total 007 expertise by having fun with the signature James Bond Brunch on the 360-degree revolving restaurant:
Prices begin from CHF 20 and CHF 35 for youths and adults respectively. The brunch contains a buffet unfold of Swiss delicacies and regional merchandise which you get to get pleasure from in opposition to a powerful mountain backdrop that was used throughout the filming of the James Bond film.
Be positive to take a look at the outside space for some picture alternatives:
5. Tham Singapore Restaurant
Even although there are simply 450 folks residing in Murren, I used to be nonetheless capable of find one Singaporean, Chef Tham, who relocated to Murren from Singapore a number of many years again. The locals affectionately topped him because the ‘exotic chef’ to seek the advice of in the event that they need to pattern any Asian delicacies. Chef Tham would then analysis and serve it to them in his restaurant if it catches his fancy!
Chef Tham first earned his culinary chop in Singapore, working his means as much as the Executive Sous Chef place at 5-star accommodations like Rendezvous Hotel earlier than he was headhunted to work in Switzerland, whereby he finally opened his personal restaurant, Tham Singapore Restaurant in Murren.
In his personal phrases, he ended up dwelling in Murren as a result of he likes snowboarding.
Nearing his retirement, Chef Tham at the moment runs the restaurant with simply his spouse and solely serves a restricted variety of covers every night time, preferring to take issues gradual to get pleasure from what he’s cooking and serving.
We sampled his fried rice and located it to be of the identical excessive normal you’ll count on from Chinese eating places in Singapore and the Asia areas. In different phrases, it was genuine and never westernised Chinese meals. If you’re in Murren, do pop by Tham to get pleasure from an genuine Singapore-style Asian meal in case you are feeling homesick or have a yearning for native meals.
6. Excrusion to Allmendhubel
Mürren’s residence mountain is simply 4 minutes away by cable automotive. You can go as much as Allmenduhubel to get pleasure from a scenic meal or for snowboarding or sledding, proper again right down to Murren.
The meals on the restaurant is easy, and fairly priced by Swiss requirements. There is nothing touristy about it and you may be having fun with the identical form of consolation meals because the locals do, on the similar worth.
7. Chill and Relax
I’ve at all times liked staying in small villages once I journey. It is one of the simplest ways to reside like a neighborhood and get to know everybody intimately who lives there. Murren is sufficiently small so that you can get to know everybody in a few days. During my 3 days there, I obtained to know the man who operates the cable automotive that lugs provides as much as Murren, the shop supervisor on the ski rental store who occurs to be an avid path runner, amongst many others.
There will not be that many retailers round and the locals are extraordinarily pleasant, at all times comfortable to have a chat to share extra about Murren or take heed to what you need to share about the place you come from.
Did I point out there’s a small library in Murren? It is so small it’s simply barely greater than a phone sales space:
8. Good Comfort Food
Aside from Tham, there are a number of different cosy eating places in Murren that serve home-style consolation meals. The variety that make you’re feeling so at residence.
I actually just like the cheese from this little kiosk, made regionally in one of many final standing cheese farm within the space. You can increase that you just obtained your cheese from a farm at one of many highest summits in Switzerland!
You would count on the costs to be jacked up for vacationers on the lodge eating places, however this isn’t the case in Murren as they cater to the locals as properly. Prices by cheap by Swiss requirements and you’ll count on heat service with cosy, consolation meals to refill your stomach.
Where to remain in Murren
There are a mixture of trendy in addition to extra conventional lodgings in Murren. I stayed on the Hotel Alpenruh, a chalet-style vacation lodge which is only one minute away from the Murren cable automotive station.
In abstract, Murren is a winter wonderland that provides a singular and unforgettable trip expertise for Singaporeans. The journey to Murren itself is breathtaking, and when you arrive, you may be surrounded by beautiful alpine surroundings, with loads of actions to maintain you busy.
Whether you’re a skier, hiker, or just on the lookout for some leisure, Murren has one thing for everybody. So, ebook your tickets as we speak and revel in an unforgettable winter trip in Murren.