Klein Matterhorn and Sunnegga, in Zermatt, Switzerland

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You are familiar with the famous Matterhorn in Zermatt, but perhaps less familiar with two other mountains that make wonderful excursions: the Klein Matterhorn and Sunnegga at 8:00.
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We are taking you up both of those peaks in this episode, first to the Klein Matterhorn in the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise.
We're going on a major journey to a high mountain peak.
We're taking you to the top of the Klein Matterhorn, which is the highest viewing platform in Europe that can be reached by cable car at 3883 meters high at the top of the Alps.
It's called Little Matterhorn because it's next to the more famous Matterhorn mountain that's even higher, 600 meters higher at 4478 meters high and we will get great views of the Matterhorn going up in the cable car.
After enjoying the summit, we're not going to ride the cable car all the way down - you could if you want to, but we've chosen to opt out and take a hike.
At the end of our 3-week tour of Switzerland, several of us looked back on this hike as the favorite moment of the entire tour, and we had a lot of great moments on the tour as you might've noticed if you've been following all of our Swiss videos. But there was just something lovely and ideal about this beautiful walk downhill through the wildflowers with mountains all around us.
Upon returning to town, we're going to walk over to the funicular that will take us up to the Sunnegga, a mountain high above Zermatt town. We will ride a funicular up and then we are going to walk down.
Reaching the funicular in a few minutes we notice out front they have a big map showing the different routes and different locations up on the mountaintop.
We'll be riding up this way in the underground funicular and then walking down the mountain. Notice how many other routes there are in the Zermatt area - it's huge.
Just buy your tickets from the booth here, no reservations necessary.
Then you walk through a tunnel for about 80 m. It's quite a stretch here going into the mountain. Notice it's not crowded because we're here in the month of May which is kind of the shoulder season - very nice time to be here, not crowded at all.
This funicular goes up through a tunnel in the mountain. You're never above ground - it's like a subway inside the mountain itself.
Easy hike down -- we show you both sides. With all the beautiful scenery and the lovely trees and the easy walk down, we find that the trail is beginning to level, off it looks like there's light at the end of the tunnel, we've arrived at the bottom, back in Zermatt, a gem of Switzerland.
This movie is a longer and combined version of two other movies we presented about this area.
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[@Mack-the-Knight]

Love not only the split screens, but also audio of the local sounds.

[@borderreiver3288]

fantastic scenery and beautiful buildings.....

[@eisenjeisen6262]

I have been to Grindelwald in April some years ago and loved it and stayed at the Belvedere hotel and everything was nice and like the snow cap on the houses and solid wood on the shops that stands out to me and of course a little younger so i be very happy this time around being in Zurich oder in Geneva and thanks for your wonderful videos.

[@USetareh]

So exited for the hike ! thanx for the advice !

[@Mdsampat]

Planning a 12 day trip in early August to explore the alps. Zurich, Lucern, Jungfrau, Interlaken, Zermatt, Chamonix/Mt Blanc. Dennis’s vids have been very helpful in my planning this trip. Any suggestions from the experienced travelers is welcome.

[@kayantikkara]

Great job! Please continue to post more videos;

[@pollychu]

Did you guys get off at" Furi " station and hike to zermatt during the glacier paradize cable ride?

[@vinalopez8356]

Hi I would like to know what is the most convenient and less cheaper way going to the Matterhorn. We're planning to visit Switzerland for 3 days and Planning to stay in Zermatt 😃 Any advice where we can purchase train tickets? Thank u 😁 soo excited!!

[@vinalopez8356]

Btw I love all your videos and enjoy watching it! 😉

[@harveyshot939]

A little off topic and late so hopefully Dennis is still checking comments: what software program did you use for the animated maps?

[@denniscallan]

Yes I always check comments, thanks. I've been having fun animating maps in recent years, using a combination of Adobe apps. First, I size the map using Photoshop, then bring it into Illustrator to draw the lines, then bring it into After Effects to animate the lines, then into Premiere Pro to place it in the movie. With the recent improvements in those programs it goes quite easily. To begin the process I need to get the map, which I do usually at public domain site, openstreetmap.org, and screen capture it with Snagit.

[@denniscallan]

The source of most of my Swiss maps came from Federal Office of Topography swisstopo www.swisstopo.admin.ch/

[@pollychu]

what is the name of the trail you hike down from Sunnegga? thanks

[@alinet9937]

vina - I will be driving up from Zurich - soon when you coming? is you go by train best to get the 1/2 card

[@davidwoodard4439]

Yeah great why put 3 4 5 shots in one frame one at a time please

[@denniscallan]

to grab your attention, and it reproduces the feeling of being there, where you have many directions to look at...

[@hannelorehodler2429]

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