The gallery behind the water
A rock tunnel passing behind the curtain — free.
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Entirely different and both worth it: the Staubbach is **free**, outdoors and visible from the village — one soaring fall you see from afar and walk behind. The Trümmelbach is **paid** and indoors: ten subterranean falls inside the mountain reached by a lift, thunderous and dramatic, unaffected by drought. If you have time for one: the Trümmelbach is more astonishing, the Staubbach more beautiful and free. Both are in the same valley minutes apart.
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The Staubbach is among Europe's highest free-falling waterfalls: 297 metres of water dropping from the lip of the valley wall in a single leap without touching rock — and that height breaks the water apart in the air, so it reaches the ground as mist rather than a current, which is how it got its name, the "dust stream". It stands directly behind the village of Lauterbrunnen, visible from the main street and from hotel windows. You can also get closer: a **gallery cut into the rock behind the falls** (free, open roughly June to October depending on weather) climbs a few minutes and passes behind the curtain of water — a short, wet experience worth having. Its best time is late spring and early summer when snowmelt swells it; in a dry late summer it weakens considerably, and in winter it may partly freeze. Goethe wrote a poem about it after visiting in 1779 — the spirit of water above the water.
A rock tunnel passing behind the curtain — free.
The height breaks the fall apart before it lands.
3822 Lauterbrunnen, Bern