Until 6 November 2016, the Saas-Fee WinterCard is on offer for the unbeatable price of CHF 211.-for an entire winter season. Have you secured yours? The offer is valid until 27 November 2016, by which time 99,999 people must have registered for a WinterCard for the deal to come into effect. And if one winter isn’t enough, season passes for three or 15 years are also available. The passes are all ...
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While visitors at other resorts are trying out new sports and activities such as grass skiing and sand sledding, and après-ski parties are nothing but a distant memory, Saas-Fee has been a winter wonderland for weeks! There’s a good reason why, in 2012 and 2014, the Free Republic of Holidays was voted the Alpine ski resort with the most reliable snow cover and the best slopes by more than 40,000 ...
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Although the Talis Festival of chamber music took place end July 2015 in Saas-Fee, the sounds of Talis still reverberate some months later. Walking through the village, passing the Dom Hotel where open rehearsals took place for anyone to drop by and listen in, to taking a diversion to the classic Evangelical Church simply to experience again that peaceful spot bringing back the vivid sounds of bassoons, violins and more! The second season of Talis ...
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Every holiday booked via www.saas-fee.ch comes with two free tickets to Expo Milano! Book your stay in the Free Republic of Holidays Saas-Fee via www.saas-fee.ch and you can look forward to a fantastic holiday immersed in the nature of the Saas Valley plus an exciting cultural experience in Milan – Saas-Fee/Saastal Tourismus is giving away two free tickets to Expo Milano for every online booking. Don’t miss out! And don’t miss out ...
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We arrive at the entrance to this charming little car-free village and are greeted by the sight of typical Valais granaries. The tourist office is situated beneath the huge car park, where small trailers are on hand to help transport luggage and the hotels’ own electric taxis are waiting to take you from A to B. Fabienne from the tourist office greets us at the three-star Hotel Bristol and offers us ...
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The new glacier trail: A high-Alpine hiking trail (T4, white-blue-white) over Schwarzbergkopf, the Allalin glacier and the Hohlaub glacier to the Britannia mountain hut. The walk back takes approximately three hours (Britannia mountain hut to Mattmark). You don’t need a mountain guide to enjoy the trail, but sturdy walking shoes are essential. There are nine different variants and the Monte Rosa hike can also be integrated. 1. Felskinn - Britannia – ...
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82summits is the adventurous and ambitious project of Alpinist Ueli Steck from Ringgenberg (Switzerland) and his rope-partner Michael Wohlleben from Heilbronn (Germany). In one summer, the pair want to summit all mountains in the Alps over 4000m high – that’s 82 peaks, spread over Switzerland, Italy and France. What’s more, they plan to cover the distance between mountains using muscle-power alone. When Ueli Steck and Michael Wohlleben start their project 82summits ...
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The stage is set for a summer of fun on the Kreuzboden! The Trift mid station is now open daily from 1:30 to 4:45 p.m. NEW! You can now catch the gondola lift from the Trift station back down to the valley. This means visitors can easily reach all the facilities in the Kreuzboden/Trift area, including the adventure playground in Hohsi Land, the refreshing water park, fabulous hiking trails, and the ...
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They did it again – Stefan Fichtner and Gabriel Zurbriggen – getting to be a power team successfully organising the second Saas-Fee Film Festival from 18-22 March 2015 in the iconic Cinema Rex which opens annually just for this event. A selection of films from countries adjoining Switzerland, each ensuring that the viewer will be shaken from the core, in one way or the other… The unusual developments in the French ...
WeiterlesenAs it is likely that many of you know little to nothing about this important task, we decided it was time to shed some light on it. Cable shifting is a task that is carried out every nine years on the Alpin Express tri-cable gondola lift. Primarily, it is an opportunity to inspect, clean and carry out maintenance work on the lift’s suspension cables. On aerial tramways, this task is ...
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