The entry of any visitor into the Jungfrau region is treated as a cause for celebration by the areas wildlife inhabitants. On all sides surround the cautious gaze of the peaks of the Jungfrau mountain range, horizontal ridges creaking into wide smiles and kindly crinkling eyes as you wander into their lands. Like you, these limestone giants have seen millennia of human explorers from civilizations long buried such as the Romans and the Bernese. The rustling of the alpine boughs by the edges of the two main lakes of the region are the murmured whispers passed between the trees and their occupants announcing your entry. These woods are dressed for the occasion, undergoing a spectacular wardrobe change with each season that arrives, from pale lavenders, to vivid pinks, rust red and finally barren white.

Each mountainous elder extends their welcome shoulder for the daring to scale, granting access to cogwheel trains, gondolas and electric carriages to transport their charges to the tips at the edge of the world. From icy castles of blue at the highest train station of Europe, the Jungfraujoch, to the precipice of Schilthorn, the three iconic brethren of the Bernese Oberlands, Monch, Eiger and Jungfrau, are an omnipresent feature in the horizon. The wildflower dotted, grassy valleys of Lauterbrunnen ripple like waves in the wind and urge you to enter the hearts of their slot canyons. As you hike through the clear cut paths, massive walls of immobile rock rising on either side open up to you to leave but a crack to traverse through. Over thundering waterfalls and gurgling brooks, the land’s lifeblood from the snowmelts above flows through the woodlands to come to a rest in Lake Thun or Lake Brienz. The villages constructed into the mountain sides and the lakes’ banks may appear at a glance to take on meek countenances but in fact they hide a rebellious streak for many a town in Jungfrau offer adrenaline packed base jumping expeditions and whirlwind ski slopes to conquer. The Wengen often guffaws at its challengers, the yearly ski villages thronging with amateurs and professionals eager to seek a piece of its thick, smooth slopes broken occasionally by natural obstacles. Let the thriving bounties of Jungfrau welcome you into their crib and take the chance to understand them, their past and their future as you explore.