Other Activities
Leukerbad offers an excellent range of all year round sports and leisure activities.
Winter Sports
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Leukerbad offers excellent skiing for both beginners and intermediates. The Snowpark Sportarena (Erli) beginner's nursery slopes are only a two minute walk from the apartment. Leukerbad Swiss Snowsports School is located centrally in the town. They operate a number of programmes and courses throughout the winter season. You can reserve skiing and snowboarding lessons for one person or for small groups directly with the school. For further information and prices, visit www.skischule-leukerbad.ch/en/.
Skiing
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Skiers and snowboarders can access the Torrent area for Alpine skiing (2 minutes by Ring-Jet bus directly from the apartment or 15 min walk), where more than 50km of pistes are available as well as the snowboard fun park. For the equally energetic, cross-country skiers can either exercise on various trails for a total of 12km near the town or take the Gemmibahn cablecar up to the Daubensee area (lift is a 2 minute walk from the apartment) and enjoy the 8km cross country trail.
Walking/Hiking
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Within the pristine natural countryside of
Leukerbad, there are more than 200km of summer hiking trails suitable for all
abilities and ages, with traditional mountain restaurants situated en route.
Qualified mountain and hiking guides (booked locally) are available to take the
more adventurous on a high altitude Alpine tour. For winter visitors, Leukerbad
has a wide range of 40km well-groomed hiking trails, including the
Panoramaweg.
Sports Arena
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The Leukerbad Sports Arena (used as a training centre for the Swiss Olympic Ski Team) offers plenty of indoor sports facilities to enjoy all-year round, whatever the weather, including, tennis table-tennis, badminton, squash, mini golf, indoor ice-skating and curling.
Climbing
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Switzerland's longest via ferrata is situated in Leukerbad. A via ferrata is a mountain route equipped with fixed cables and ladders wherever necessary. 216 metres of ladders and over 2,000 metres of steel cable have been installed in the rock face of the Daubenhorn, which towers steeply above Leukerbad. The impressive via ferrata offers the visitor the opportunity to enjoy the unique panorama of the Valais Alps. Unique too, is the approximate 100m long natural cave traversed on the way. For experienced climbers only and not for the faint hearted!
Places to Visit
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Leukerbad's excellent location provides you with easy access to many other well-known Swiss resorts such as Saas Fee (1 1/4hrs), Crans Montana (45 mins), Zermatt (1 1/2hrs), Montreaux (1hr) and the Bernese Oberland (1 1/2hrs) as well as many unspoilt mountain villages such as Albinen (15 mins), Riederalp (50 mins) and Grimentz (50 mins). The northern Italian lakes are only a 2 1/2 hour scenic drive away.
approximate times given for travel by car
approximate times given for travel by car