Funny thing, here in the mountains I’m waking and getting up at around 6.30am every morning no problem. Back at home I struggle to get out of bed at 7am!! Maybe it’s got something to do with getting der anke auser… lol

Another day in paradise

Day 1248 – August 1st, 2017

Day 5 Bettmeralp

Swiss National Day

Brassli & Mister were doing a big hike today and we Moni & I chose something a little less strenuous. But before our walk begins we must pass through the village.

Bettmeralp village

Beautiful chalets for holiday adventures in the Bettmeralp

New and old chalets to rent and a mini golf park

Bettmeralp mini golf

Cute flowerpot holder

Ba Ba Blue Sheep…

Haha, now you know where the blue wool comes from.

Once again we take the chair lift up. Most days we used this lift as only a few lifts are in operation during summer months. This one and the Moosfluh lift are the closest.

Schönbiel chair lift station

Bättmer Hitta restaurant breakfast

Once at the top we decided to head to the Bättmer Hitta restaurant for a coffee. On the way we passed a couple… and breakfast was for free!!

Walking down toward the Bättmer Hitta

Today is August 1st which incidentally is Switzerland’s national day. The restaurant was full and we had a bite to eat before continuing on with our walk.

1st August Swiss National Day

The walk form here was pretty much all upwards to Moosfluh.

Up to Moosfluh

Today our walk was up to Moosfluh. A different direction from the first day’s walk from Riederfurka to Moosfluh.

On our walk up to Moosfluh

This was the first time we saw these reeds during the entire week until our final walk. They had what looked like cotton wool at the tips.

Grass reeds with cotton wool like tops o the Alp

Once at the top we had yet another view of the Glacier.

Did you know…

The glacier is the longest in the Alps at 23 kilometres. At Konkordiaplatz it is 1000 meter wide and the estimated weight of the Aletsch Glacier is 27 billion tons, which is the equivalent of 72 jumbo jets!

Now you know.

The Glacier view never gets old

Walking trails all around

Distances in all directions

Panorama showing lots of walking trails

Stunning beauty

Walk between the rocks

At the lookout platform you can see all around, and even use the telescope which actually tells you the name of each mountain as you move around, pretty cool. Oh and it’s FREE.

Free telescope to view the mountain range

From here we took the cable car down to Riederalp base before walking back to the chalet.

Riederalp from Moosfluh cable car

As it was such nice weather we spontaneously decided to enjoy a coffee and coupe on the Waldhaus terrace.

Waldhaus terrace & coupe

Today’s walk was hours and we covered  km