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Photos: NOTE: This image is a panorama consisting of multiple frames that were merged or stitched in software. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulation. These manipulations may include blending, blurring, cloning, and color and perspective adjustments. As a result of these adjustments, the image content may be slightly different from reality at the points where multiple images were combined. This manipulation is often required due to lens, perspective, and parallax distortions., Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Roy Egloff, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Ermell, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Potholes carved by melting glaciers
Your local guide
Vreni Amstutz
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Highlights
- Potholes carved by melting glaciers
- Rock layers telling an ice age story
- Natural history, right in the old town
- An outdoor garden built around geology
- Lucerne's landscape, thousands of years back
About this tour
This session stays in the open-air part of a garden built around traces the ice age left behind. You see circular potholes ground into rock by melting glaciers and a rock face showing the layers of that same story. It stays outdoors throughout.
I explain how the potholes actually formed first, then read the rock face's layers as we move along it. Questions about the ice age and the geology are welcome throughout.
This suits anyone interested in geology and natural history rather than only buildings and monuments. It also works well paired with the Lion Monument session next door.
Included
- Live video walk with a local guide
- Questions to your guide all the way
- A short list of places to visit later
Not included
- Internet connection
- Travel to the city
Itinerary
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Welcome and sound check 5 min
The guide joins the video call, checks the picture and sound with you, and gives you a quick sense of Lucerne before heading out.
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Glacial Potholes 15 min
In the garden's open-air section, you see circular potholes ground into the rock by melting glaciers thousands of years ago.
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Garden Rock Face 15 min
Further along, I point out the layers visible in the rock face, each one telling part of the story of the ice that once covered this valley.
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Your questions 7 min
Time to ask anything about Lucerne: prices, safety, food, or whatever you are curious about.
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A short list to keep 3 min
Before you go, the guide sums up with a few things worth remembering: a dish to try: Swiss chocolate and Altstadt, worth a slower look.
Good to know
- A stable wifi or mobile connection makes the picture smoother than a shaky one.
- Any phone, tablet or laptop with a camera works. You watch, the guide does the walking.
- Times are shown in Zurich time, so check the time where you are before you book.
- The session is not recorded, and recording it yourself is not allowed. Feel free to take your own notes.
- Ask questions any time, out loud or in the chat. The guide will pause to answer.
- Sessions run in small groups, up to 10 people, so there is room for everyone to ask something.
Questions about this tour
What will the session cover?
The guide walks through Lucerne, showing you Glacial Potholes and Garden Rock Face live on camera, plus whatever else you would like to see.
What happens if my connection drops?
Rejoin with the same link within a few minutes and the guide will catch you up on anything you missed.
Can I ask the guide questions during the session, or is it a fixed script?
Anything, any time. Sessions leave room for your own questions throughout, not just at the end.
How it works
- You get one join link after booking.
- Join from any device: phone, tablet or laptop.
- We meet on Google Meet and the link comes with your booking. I studied the history behind this monument closely, so I explain the story in real depth.
Times shown in Zurich time (CET)
Cancellation
Flexible
- Cancel up to 24 hours before the start: full refund.
- Cancel less than 24 hours before the start, or no-show: no refund.
- If the guide cancels or the date does not reach its minimum group: full refund.
- Cancel in My Account → Bookings; the refund is calculated from the start time in the tour's local time.
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