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Getting There & Away

Car
Zermatt is car-free. Motorists have to park in Täsch ( www.matterhornterminal.ch ;
Sfr14.50/day), load luggage onto a trolley (Sfr5) and ride the Zermatt Shuttle train (adult/
child Sfr7.80/3.90, 12 minutes, every 20 minutes from 6am to 9.40pm) the last 5km to
Zermatt.

Train
Trains to Täsch depart roughly every 20 minutes from Brig (Sfr31, 1½ hours), stopping at
Visp en route. Zermatt is also the starting point of the Glacier Express to Graubünden, one
of the most spectacular train rides in the world.

Saas Fee
POP 1700 / ELEV 1800M
Hemmed in by a magnificent amphitheatre of 13 implacable peaks over 4000m and
backed by the threatening tongues of nine glaciers, this village looks positively feeble in
the revealing light of summer.
Today Saas Fee is a chic, car-free resort where every well-to-do skier and hiker wants
to be. Modern chalets surround the village but its commercial heart, well- endowed with
old timber chalets and barns on stilts (once used to store hams and grain), retains a defin-
ite old-world, Heidi-style charm.

Sights

ALLALIN
Year-round, an underground funicular steadily climbs up to an icy 3500m, where the
world's highest revolving restaurant on the Allalin glacier basks in glorious 360-degree
views of Saas Fee's 4000m glacial giants. Whatever the season, wrap up warm to visit the
subzero Eispavillion (Ice cave; adult/child Sfr5/3 or free for non-skiers with return cable-car ticket) ,
hollowed out 10m below the ice surface. To reach the glacier, take the cable car up to Fel-

| Glacier