Natural places of interest of Switzerland

If you will depart to East Switzerland by all means will see one of the most impressing beauty of the country - the Rhine cataract (an average water discharge - 1100  m ³ in a second). Near to a cataract the old beautiful city of Shaffhauzen is had.

This part of the country abounds with unusual motley flower carpets: an alpine rose (rhododendron), an edelweiss, a saxifrage, a rock jasmine... The Majority of plants - perennial grasses and bushes. Their flowers are rather great and bright; both flowers, and plants are fragrant often.

Small towns and the villages having unostentatious charm, are fine inscribed in such natural landscape.

In the Central Switzerland it is possible to admire mount Pilatus (Pilatus) (2120 . This apex is in 10  km from a main city of the Central Switzerland - Lucerne. It is had at Firvaldshtetsky loch and surrounded by the mounts which beauty has excited many poets.

the Western Switzerland will please you with the well-known mountain miracle which has become by a symbol of Switzerland. It is a mount Matterhorn (Matterhorn) (4478 ), under the form reminding a tripod signal.

Matterhorn - the favourite purpose of climbers, and its neighbourhoods - a place of winter and summer skiing. The canton Vallis - one more pearl of the Western Switzerland is a 130-kilometre deep valley among a high-mountainous Alpine chain. Pride of Switzerland is lake of Geneva - liked vacation spot and inhabitants of the country, and foreign tourists.