After Zermatt, we continued our journey onwards to the Rhone valley, named after the river flowing through. The Rhone river starts at the
Aletsch galcier, the biggest alpine glacier, and transits through the whole Valais to the lake of Geneva.
On the road passing Turtmann (a small municipality):
In the village of Susten we went up on a little road going onto the "
wine trail" that starts from
Leuk and goes to Martigny. At the starting point in Leuk, you can admire the medieval Bishops palace. There is a parking space just next to the castle, so it's worth making a stop there, even if it's only to savor the view over the vineyards, the
Pfyn Forest and the Ilhorn.
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| Castle of Leuk. |
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| Sight over the vineyards, the Pfyn Forest and the Illhorn. |
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| Little stop on our way in Varen. |
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| If you have time, there are many walking possibilities through the vineyards. |
You can easily understand why the people living in Valais have an "Apéro-culture" (meaning enjoying a glass of white wine and some snacks before dinner). As far as you can see, there are vineyards with caves at every corner and many good places to taste wine.
For example the town of Varen is famous for it's wine caves.
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| Wineyards as far you can see! |
We decided to make a little stop to have lunch. What's better than
having fine specialties from the region in this little paradise?
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| Enjoying a picnic in the vineyards. |
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| Picnic with regional specialties. |
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| In Switzerland you just have to take the time to look around to discover the small beauties! |
After our appetising lunch we continued our big adventure. A little check on our
Grand Tour map and we on we went!
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| Sabine checking out the way on our Grand Tour map. |
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| 100% Grand Tour Feeling ! |
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| View over Salgesch and the Rhone valley. |
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