Saas-Balen 4K 🇨🇭 Walking Tour in Saas-Fee & Saas-Balen and Road Trip to Visp, Valais / Wallis Ep#8

Canton of Valais / Wallis - The Last Episode #8
Saas-Balen 4K 🇨🇭 Walking Tour in Saas-Fee & Saas-Balen and Road Trip to Visp

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The Epic Road Trip Itinerary:
00:18 Saas-Fee, Canton of Valais in Switzerland
01:02 Spielbodenbahn - Mountain Cable Car
05:40 Adventure Sports Park
06:06 Saastal Bergbahnen - Ski Resort
10:49 Post Office, Saas-Fee
11:21 Bus Terminal, Saas-Fee
12:15 Car Parking, Saas-Fee
17:44 Saas-Grund
18:05 Church - Kirche St. Bartholomäus Ausstattung
20:18 Tamattsand, Saas-Balen
20:42 Bidermatten, Saas-Balen
22:54 Saas-Balen
25:58 Waterfall in Saas-Balen
36:33 Zen Eisten, Eisten
37:38 Eisten
42:50 Illas, Stalden
43:17 Stalden
46:12 Staldenried
46:40 Ackersand, Stalden
47:45 Milachru, Stalden
48:13 Neubrück, Stalden
49:24 Ritibrücke - A Stone Bridge
49:51 Chapel
54:57 Staldbach Restaurant
56:24 Visp
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Canton of Valais / Wallis
It is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion. The flag of the canton is made of thirteen stars representing the districts, on a white-red background. Valais is situated in the southwestern part of the country. It borders the cantons of Vaud and Bern to the north, the cantons of Uri and Ticino to the east, as well as Italy to the south and France to the west. It is one of the three large southern Alpine cantons, along with Ticino and the Grisons. It is a bilingual canton, French and German being its two official languages. Traditionally, the canton is divided into Lower, Central and Upper Valais, the latter region constituting the German-speaking minority. Valais essentially coincides with the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps.

Saas-Fee
It's the main village in the Saastal, or the Saas Valley, and is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The village is situated on a high mountain plateau at 1,800 meters (5,900 feet), surrounded by a total of 13 peaks above 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) which is the most in the Alps, forming the basis for its nickname the Pearl of the Alps. It is a classic ski resort characterised by well-preserved Swiss wood architecture and a car-free city centre. The villages in its neighborhood are Saas-Almagell, Saas-Grund and Saas-Balen.

Saas-Grund
It is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It lies east of Lenzspitze and Dom. It consists of the village of Saas-Grund, the hamlets of Unter dem Berg and Ze Laubinu and portions of the hamlets of Tamatten and Unter den Bodmen. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,068 or 91.5%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (35 or 3.0%) and Albanian is the third (35 or 3.0%). There are 3 people who speak French, 11 people who speak Italian.

Saas-Balen
It's a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It lies at the foot of the Mischabelhörner and Dom. It has an area, as of 2011, of 30.2 square kilometers (11.7 sq mi). Of this area, 10.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 22.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 65.4% is unproductive land. It has the smallest area of any municipality in the Saas valley. It consists of the village of Saas-Balen and the hamlets of Niedergut (Ausser-Balen), Bidermatten and a part of Tamatten (Inner-Balen) as well as 25 small, alpine settlements.

Saas Valley
The Saastal is an alpine valley in the district of Visp, in the eastern part of the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is the valley of the river Saaser Vispa. It is separated from the Mattertal to the west by the Mischabel massif. Villages in the valley are, upstream, Eisten, Saas-Balen, Saas-Grund, Saas-Fee and Saas-Almagell.

Eisten
It's a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It's located in the Visp district, on the eastern and western sides of the entrance into the Saas valley.

Visp
It's the capital of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It lies in the Rhône valley, at the confluence of the Vispa and the Rhône, 9 km (6 mi) west of Brig-Glis.

* Source : Wikipedia

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