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You are familiar with the famous Matterhorn in Zermatt, but perhaps less familiar with two other mountains that make wonderful excursions: the Klein Matterhorn and Sunnegga at 8:00.
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We are taking you up both of those peaks in this episode, first to the Klein Matterhorn in the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise.
We're going on a major journey to a high mountain peak.
We're taking you to the top of the Klein Matterhorn, which is the highest viewing platform in Europe that can be reached by cable car at 3883 meters high at the top of the Alps.
It's called Little Matterhorn because it's next to the more famous Matterhorn mountain that's even higher, 600 meters higher at 4478 meters high and we will get great views of the Matterhorn going up in the cable car.
After enjoying the summit, we're not going to ride the cable car all the way down – you could if you want to, but we've chosen to opt out and take a hike.
At the end of our 3-week tour of Switzerland, several of us looked back on this hike as the favorite moment of the entire tour, and we had a lot of great moments on the tour as you might've noticed if you've been following all of our Swiss videos. But there was just something lovely and ideal about this beautiful walk downhill through the wildflowers with mountains all around us.
Upon returning to town, we're going to walk over to the funicular that will take us up to the Sunnegga, a mountain high above Zermatt town. We will ride a funicular up and then we are going to walk down.
Reaching the funicular in a few minutes we notice out front they have a big map showing the different routes and different locations up on the mountaintop.
We'll be riding up this way in the underground funicular and then walking down the mountain. Notice how many other routes there are in the Zermatt area – it's huge.
Just buy your tickets from the booth here, no reservations necessary.
Then you walk through a tunnel for about 80 m. It's quite a stretch here going into the mountain. Notice it's not crowded because we're here in the month of May which is kind of the shoulder season – very nice time to be here, not crowded at all.
This funicular goes up through a tunnel in the mountain. You're never above ground – it's like a subway inside the mountain itself.
Easy hike down -- we show you both sides. With all the beautiful scenery and the lovely trees and the easy walk down, we find that the trail is beginning to level, off it looks like there's light at the end of the tunnel, we've arrived at the bottom, back in Zermatt, a gem of Switzerland.
This movie is a longer and combined version of two other movies we presented about this area.
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