The Schilthorn cable-car from Stechelberg leaps the valleys west wall to reach the idyllically quiet hamlet of GIMMELWALD, a little-visited spot set among meadows ablaze with spring and summer wildflowers. You have to switch cable-cars to rise further to car-free MÜRREN, an eyrie of a village set on an elevated shelf of pasture which has managed to retain its endearing desert-island atmosphere (in the off season at least).
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