Switzerland Holiday & Travel Guide: Switzerland is a great place to visit for a whole host of reasons and experiences. Divided into Swiss German, French, Italian and Romansch speaking areas, each place offers a totally different holiday experience to the next.

Switzerland is a great winter and summer sports paradise, with the Alps providing beautiful, white Alpine peaks for the avid snow-sportsman, and glittering lakes welcoming the water fanatics. The hiking possibilities are also endless here - try your luck against glacier's and high mountain peaks, bringing out the competitive edge and testing the stamina of any avid walker.

Other activities that you can expect to get involved in here include paragliding, hang-gliding, water-skiing, windsurfing, sailing, canoeing, mountaineering and rafting, to name just a few - the outdoors of Switzerland is a play box waiting to be opened.

There are a handful of cities well worth visiting during your stay in Switzerland, depending on whether you fancy a bit of French, German or Italian culture, you can choose accordingly. Try Geneva for a cosmopolitan getaway, the affluent city of Zurich with its fine selection of restaurants or bars, or Basel and Lausanne for more of an ‘arty’ and 'cultural' experience. Back to Travel Guides