Swiss Smilestones

3 January 2024

One of the latest Swiss attractions is close to nature’s Swiss miracles: the Rhine Falls (Rheinfall).

Europe’s largest waterfall was formed 17,000-14,000 years ago by the meltwater from receding glaciers. This phenomenon can now be admired in the largest indoor miniature world depicting Switzerland.

The mountainous Berner Oberland and the eastern part of the country are on display. Interlaken, the Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau, the Kleine Scheidegg, the Matterhorn, the Appenzeller Land, the Säntis mountains, and many other locations are also on display, not as dead miniatures but embedded in moving train and car traffic, helicopters, cities, villages, woods, lakes, rivers, cows, and people.

Swiss Smilestones, the name of this miniature world, is indeed made with a smile and numerous (and humorous) details. The Rhine Falls are just a few hundred meters away, and one can see the similarity between the miniature and the real world.

(Source Swiss Smilestones, Neuhausen, www.smilestones.ch).