A 2.5 hour trip from St. Mortiz through a landscape of glaciers and stone fields to Tirano Italy where a bus to Lugano is available. View wild gorges, soaring bridges, fascinating loop tunnels and white glaciers close enough to reach out and touch. The Bernina Express provides 1st and 2nd class as well as panoramic coaches.
Reservations are mandatory for both train and bus.
There will be an extra cost for these reservations. The famous train link between St. Mortiz and Zermatt. The journey lasts 7.5 hours, passing through 91 tunnels and crossing 291 bridges and the 6,670 feet high Oberalp Pass. A panoramic trip through the alpine heartland of Switzerland, is a memorable way of traveling from the eastern to the western Swiss Alps. The Glacier Express runs all year round.