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metropolis is transformed every year into a mecca for top-calibre festivals, cultural and sporting events. 580 kilometres of footpaths are waiting to be explored – on strolls, walks, longer hikes and multi-day tours and for every taste, there is a path to happiness. The views are particularly spectacular on the Muottas Muragl mountain, whose challenging paths offer a magnificent natural high. Strolls down in the valley, meanwhile, are especially idyllic, in the pleasantly shady Staz forest, for example, perhaps followed by an invigorating dip in a lake. Those who simply can’t get enough of hiking can plan a multi-day tour through the glorious natural landscape – along the Via Alpina or through the Swiss National Park, home to an exceptionally rich wildlife.
The best thing about hiking is that it costs nothing. Guests who stay at least two nights at any of more than 90 hotels in the Engadin St. Moritz region participating in the “mountain transport included� package benefit scent of larch needles and the bark of Swiss from free travel on funiculars and cable cars stone pine trees. The intense blue of the sky for the duration of their stay. Several hotels is intoxicating to the eye; thoughts of day- additionally offer their guests free travel on to-day concerns feel as if they have been public transport. blown away by the pleasant cooling breeze. The Wild World of the Swiss National Park The fact that a stay in this paradise does The Swiss National Park extends for 170 not have to cost the earth is demonstrated square kilometres, and offers keen hikers all by our increasing amount of hotel packages manner of impressive experiences. Here naoffered through UK tour operators, offering ture is allowed to take its course, without top quality for every budget in St. Moritz any human interference. and the neighbouring village of Pontresina. Swiss Travel Service and Neilson Active Holi- Around 30 species of mammals and more days are two such companies. In the sum- than 100 species of birds can be observed in mer months, May to October, the Engadin Switzerland’s only national park. There are
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two requirements for hiking in this natural oasis: a sound level of fitness and good equipment. Anyone keen to see ibex and marmots has a good chance of sightings on the route from S-chanf up to Alp Trupchun at 2,040 metres. Chamois and red deer are more likely to be seen on the trail to the Cluozza hut. 100 years of Rhaetian Railways’ Bernina line – all aboard! The Bernina line, the highest-altitude railway link across the Alps, began operation