Here is a travelogue we wrote a few years ago about a place just 12 KM or so from Interlaken. While our ideas about this area may be too restrictive for a first time traveler to Switzerland, a look at this area may interest you enough to return at a later date. We have not been there since 1968, however, so some changes in our accommodations may have occurred since that time.

http://www.twenj.com/swwengen.htm

Gretchen, SC