On our first morning in Mürren, we awoke to the following image of the mountains Eiger and Mönch from our balcony.

After breakfast, we got ready to go out to explore. After doing some higher elevation hikes lately, we thought we go back to something simple. We decided to stick close to home and walk the Valley of the 72 Waterfalls, which is really just a nice 9km walk through the Lauterbrunnen valley below Mürren.

Below are our GPS tracks overlaid on a Google Earth image. Don’t take them as being too accurate, since the track seems to jump around a lot, which I’ve seen before with my GPS when in areas surrounded by large mountains or high cliffs, such as this. It does, however, give a general idea of where we walked.

We took the little train from Mürren over to the cable car that takes us to Lauterbrunnen on the valley floor. Once down, we walked through the town and then up the valley.

The sound of cow bells are everywhere.

There were lots of little farms along the river as we followed the trail up the valley.

When we reached the cableway in Stechelberg up the valley, we could see several paragliders jumping off of the cliffs above.

We took the cable car up to Gimmelwald, a small village that sits above the valley but below Mürren.

We walked around Gimmelwald for about an hour or so. It’s a pretty place, but a little sleepy.

We then returned to the cable car station and continued up to Mürren for the night.