A book about Switzerland claimed that Lauterbrunnen is situated in the world’s deepest U-shaped valley. That may be an exaggeration, but certainly the vertical sides of the valley rising 400 metres above the bottom makes it an impressive location. Lauterbrunnen itself is a village, heavenly dependent on tourism, situtated at the bottom of the valley at an altitude of around 800 metres. Vertical rock faces surround it on two sides and not less than 72 waterfalls come down the mountains into the Lauterbrunnen valley.
One of these waterfalls is the famous Staubbachfall, which throw itself 297 metres vertically down a cliff just outside the village. And only a few kilometres from Lauterbrunnen is the equally impressive Trümmelbachfälle, which I will describe in my next post.
We also visited the churchyard in Lauterbrunnen. Like everything in Switzerland, it is extremely neat and organised. So much that I had to compare it to our English churchyards, where the gravestones lean in every possible direction and often are overgrown with ivy and other plants. I couldn’t resist including a couple of my photos from English churches as a comparison.
