View over Lake Walen in autumn with wooded slopes and mountains

An outstanding day

 
 

Mountain and lake: the best of two worlds in one day trip 

A group experience for 15 to 60 people

Bookable from May to October, April is limited to saturday

An exciting guided tour of the tunnel with adventure cinema, an exciting explosion demo, a fine lunch in the mountain inside and then a super cosy boat trip on Lake Walen. The day could not be much better.

Your advantages:

  • Program with "Something for everyone"
  • No tiresome organising
  • Combination of activity, discovery and soul dangle

Schuedule inside the Hagerbach Test Gallery

Group wearing safety helmets on a guided tour of the Hagerbach Test Gallery
  • 9.00 am Coffee and croissants in the mountain
  • 09.30 am Guided tour through the tunnel system
  • including adventure cinema and blasting demo
  • 11.45 am Lunch in the mountain

Schedule options on the lake

Seehus restaurant with terrace and red awnings on the hillside above the lake

Option 1:Walenstadt to Weesen with stop at Seehus Quinten

  • 2.10 pm embarking ship in Walenstadt
  • 2.50 pm arrival in Quinten for Coupe Denmark or cake and coffee in the Restaurant Seehus Quinten
  • 4.20 pm embarking ship Quinten to Weesen
  • 5.05 pm Arrival Weesen
Passenger boat with guests on deck on Lake Walen at dusk

Option 2: Walenstadt round trip with a stop at Restaurant Seehus Quinten

  • 2.10 pm embarking ship Walenstadt to Quinten
  • 2.50 pm arrival in Quinten for  Coupe Denmark or cake and coffee in the Restaurant Seehus
  • 4.15 pm embarking ship Quinten to Walendstadt
  • 5 pm Walenstadt Arrival Walenstadt

Costs

Tunnel with rail track and an illuminated group of visitors in the background at the Hagerbach Test Gallery

Price:

  • CHF 99 per person

Included:

Additional costs:

  • Lunch: Selection from the banquet brochure or menu of the day at CHF 26.50 (Mon-Fri)

Optional costs:

  • Additional drinks for lunch such as wine etc. according to the price list Restaurant Hagerbach
  • If required, we can book a shuttle bus from the VSH to the port in Walenstadt

Photo Gallery "An outstanding day"

Passenger boat on the turquoise Lake Walen in front of the Churfirsten mountains
Green meadow near Flums with a barn and the snow-covered Churfirsten
Tunnel train with blue locomotive and open passenger wagons ready for departure in the tunnel
Sunset over Lake Walen seen from the mountainside
Festively set round tables with white tablecloths and tulips in the event hall
Excavator and yellow drilling rig in an underground cavern
Drilling jumbo with several booms at the rock face in the tunnel
Black-and-white view of the old SBB railway wagon in the tunnel
Aerial view of a boat leaving a wake on the turquoise Lake Walen
Smoke billowing around the railway wagon after the blasting demo
Visitors in orange high-vis jackets walking past a tunnel boring machine in the tunnel
Exhibited cutter head of a tunnel boring machine and a ventilation fan at the Hagerbach Test Gallery
Group of visitors in yellow helmets in front of construction machines in the tunnel
Sunny meadow with a view of mountains and valley in the Sarganserland
Group in helmets and high-vis vests around concrete rings during a demonstration
Guests on the deck of a boat enjoying the view of Lake Walen and the mountains