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!…
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…
Étang de Gruère near Biel is not like an ordinary Swiss mountain lake with turquoise crystal clear water and majestic mountains as backdrop. Étang de Gruère is a completely different kind of lake that reminds me so much of my child hood summer around Swedish lakes and forest. I have so…
Hills covered of Daffodils as far as the eyes can see. What more are there to say? I am always in search of hikes around wild flower meadows in Switzerland and how happy wasn’t I when I found a blog post, about Daffodils growing wildly around Vue des alpes…
A sea of wild crocuses. Doesn’t it sound like a place where you want to be on a beautiful spring day?This particular place of sea of wild crocuses can be found on the hills of Rämisgummen in the commune of Eggiwil in the canton of Bern. We found…
Take a walk to these three breathtaking beautiful mountain lakes that are to be found in the Piora Valley in the Canton of Ticino. There are many hiking trails around this valley but you and your family don’t need to walk very far to get to one of…
Hiking zigzags uphills and downhills between vineyards, crossing charming villages and tasting local wines with a postcard perfect view of the lake Geneva is something everybody should be doing when visiting Switzerland. In 2002 when I came to visit my Swiss boyfriend (who is now my husband) for…
The Gantrischsee is a small peaceful mountain lake in the middle of a natural preserve in the canton of Bern, surrounded by Swiss mountains that are begging to be explored. And so we did.. Finally after mistaken the Gantrischsee in the Gantrisch nature park for another lake we…
