Jungfrau Peaks and Glaciers

• Some of the finest high level walking trails in Europe
• Switzerland's most famous trio of mountains: Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau
• High quality *** hotels throughout - excellent cuisine
• Thundering waterfalls, rolling glaciers, luxuriant red spruce forest, stunning range of flowers and wildlife
• Blissfully quiet, traffic-free villages - many with pools

This walking holiday explores some of the Alps' most dramatic scenery. The sheer scale of it is breathtaking: the 4000m peaks of the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau cloaked in rolling white glaciers tower magnificently over the Lauterbrunnen Valley, the deepest U-shaped valley in the world, lined with 73 rushing waterfalls.

You're in for a succession of unique experiences: passing so close to the ice-clad flank of the Monch you feel you can touch it, rambling through meadows fragrant with wolfsbane, trumpet gentian and purple monkshood, being lulled by the sound of tinkling cowbells and deafened by the thundering power of a corkscrew waterfall, venturing into cool dark gorges and contemplating vast heart-lifting Alpine panoramas.

Where you stay provides some pleasing contrasts: from the disarmingly pretty car-free village of Murren, to the bustling world-famous resort of Grindelwald with its two glaciers. Our friendly hoteliers all speak English and will happily advise on routes.

The paths and trails are well signposted and waymarked, and nowhere in the Alps is there a better provision of mountain lifts and railways, offering almost unlimited walking choices. On the higher slopes, the lammergeier has recently been re-introduced. Look out too for alpine accentor and golden eagle cruising the thermals.