The Valais is a canton on the southern part of Switzerland. It is home to the world-famous pyramid-shaped Matterhorn and its car-free village Zermatt, beautiful crystal clear mountain lakes, upper Rhône River Valley vineyards, the country’s largest glaciers and dams and so much more. If you ever get…
Deep in the beautiful Anniviers Valley in the canton of Valais lies this artificial lake with an incredible intense turquoise water that immediately take your breath away. Many years ago, I think it was in 2012, David and I did a loop hike around the lake Moiry. It…
What is more wonderful than to view the first spring flowers appear after the long winter months ! The white landscape is now gently turning green, dotted with colorful spring flowers announcing that the summer is on the way! Yay!Over the years we have done some great hikes…
If you love to hike to beautiful mountain lakes I bet you will love to hike to Urdensee, Äplisee and Schwellisee ! Not only are they crystal clear and intensively blue or green, the hike is pretty easy but most important of all..there is hardly any people there!…
It’s not hard to find awesome swimming spots in Switzerland with over a thousands of beautiful lakes and not to forget about all the rivers and swimming pools scattered all over the country. What is hard is to find THE favorite swimming spot, the perfect one, the one…
If you love waterfalls or just fancy for a swim in beautiful natural pools, Affenschlucht in Winterthur is a real hidden gem in Switzerland not to miss!About a year ago when I found a blog post about Affenschlucht waterfalls I was dreaming to have a swim in these…
Always in search of crystal clear Swiss mountain lakes, when I found out about Lac Bleu in Arolla I knew immediately that I have to dip my toes in that blue water! And so did I not very long ago… Blausee is a small lake in Kandersteg well-known…
Many family comes to Kandersteg for a family fun at the world-famous Blausee and the Oeschinensee but not many families know about the beautiful Gastern valley not very far away. Gastern valley might not be as picture-perfect or childish-fun as those two lakes but if you have some…
Lac de Taney is a beautiful Swiss natural mountain lake situated hight above the Rhône Valley, in the canton of Valais on the border to France. This deep-green lake was declared as national natural heritage site in the 1960s and is a real hidden gem that very few tourist…
Have a simple family hike by Switzerland’s second largest dam, le barrage d’Emosson. If you continue further via the Vieux-Emosson, you can get close up with more than 800 dinosaur footprints dating back 250 million of years. David and I have our favorite places we like to bring…
