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Kandersteg[1] is a village in the Bernese Highlands in Switzerland.

[edit] Get in

Trains to Kandersteg run from Thun in the north and Brig in the south.

[edit] Get around

[edit][add listing] See

[edit][add listing] Do

• Hike to one of the local "huttes" and stay over night surrounded by glaciers
• Take a chair-lift to Oeschinensee [2].

[edit][add listing] Buy

• Victorinox/Wenger penknives.  edit
• Zippo.  edit
• Co-op. This supermarket is the cheapest in town and stocks pretty much everything you need  edit

[edit][add listing] Eat

[edit][add listing] Drink

[edit][add listing] Sleep

• Bernerhof Kandersteg Hotel, Hauptstrasse, CH-3718, Kandersteg, ☎ 033 675 8875 (hotel@bernerhof.ch, fax: 033 675 8877), [3].  edit
• Hotel Victoria Ritter, CH-3718 Kandersteg, ☎ 033 675 8000 (info@hotel-victoria.ch, fax: 033 675 8100), [4].  edit

[edit] Cope

• There is only 1 ATM in the town, so have cash handy.

[edit] Get out

• Leukerbaud