If you're an independent hiker and prefer to go at your own pace, or have travel dates that don't match up with our guided tours, you may prefer to do a self-guided hiking tour. Our self-guided tours include prepaid hotels with breakfast and dinner, a Swiss transfer ticket for travel to and from the airport or border (Switzerland tours only), hiking maps, detailed route descriptions (including longer, shorter, and rainy day options), instructions for independently sending luggage ahead, and lots of useful information that will help your trip run smoothly. 
  We offer self-guided versions of our village-based tours: Jungfrau + Matterhorn, Jungfrau, Matterhorn, Mürren, Engadine, Grand Tour and of our inn-to-inn tour, Bernese Oberland.
In addition, both customized guided tours and self-guided hiking tours are available at surprisingly affordable prices. If you'd like to lengthen or shorten one of our existing tours, or create a customized tour of the Swiss Alps from scratch, let us know. More than half the tours we organized last year were self-guided tours. We have extensive expertise hiking in many different areas of the Alps, and will be happy to work with you to build the hiking vacation that best suits your needs. Inn-to-inn tours are available in the Bernese Oberland. For village-based tours, we can help you choose among Grindelwald, Mürren, Kandersteg, Pontresina, Zermatt, Riederalp, and Chamonix.
  Following requests from some of our guests, we've also designed self-guided itineraries for non-hikers. These include more city stopovers (Lucerne, Lugano, Zurich) and easy light walks and non-hiking ideas in some of Switzerland's most spectacular mountain villages. Our Swiss Sampler self-guided tours are designed for a more relaxed sightseeing tour.