Plant cooking

Plant cooking Learn about plants, to discover their secrets or simply to enrich your knowledge of nature. Beyond the mere acquisition of knowledge, pick and then create a small menu with the plants from our mountains. In the kitchen of a mountain pasture canteen, cut up, prepare and taste… The taste of a nettle candy,…

Rye bread making

Rye bread making Rye bread is part of the emblem of the Valais. How to make it, which flour to use and why it keeps so long? Discover these secrets with a baker who will guide you through the production process. Find yourself in a village mill or at a communal oven for the production…

Wine and grappes varieties

Wine and grappes varieties Are you interested in the different varieties, wines and gourmet riches that the grape has to offer? Walk through the wine museum’s vineyards in the company of a professional… Discover how many grape varieties are cultivated in Valais and what type is specific to this Valais land… View flyer Booking Security…

Tasting, tastes and flavors

Tasting, tastes and flavors We offer you tastings of wines, beers, cheeses, syrups and homemade ice creams. For an original tasting, we suggest you wines and chocolates where the chocolates have been created specifically by a chocolate maker to accompany the 9 Valais grape varieties that you taste. Learn how to shell out the flavors…

Cultural visits and natural sites

Cultural visits and natural sites We organize private tours both cultural and traditional. To complete your stay or in case of bad weather conditions, choose to visit an art museum, heritage museum, or visit a dam, power plant, underground, steep gorges, underground walk in salt mines, or any other unique place that makes up the…

Plantes and herbarium

Plantes and herbarium Learn about plants, to discover their secrets or simply to enrich your knowledge of nature. The herbarium will allow you to dry and identify the different plants that you have picked. From the medicinal herbarium to the gourmet herbarium, choose the theme you prefer. Meadowsweet, nothing better to flavor your desserts… Nettles…

From the boarder to the smugglers

From the boarder to the smugglers A parallel smuggling trade has taken place in some alpine valley because of the long periods of war and the opportunity of the proximity of the border. Being a smuggler in the early last century, meant to put butter in the spinach but also to have a taste for…

Observation, stars, moon, sun

Observation, stars, moon, sun As an integral part of nature, the sky reveals these secrets for an evening with an astronomer in an observatory. Stay away from the lighted plains and get closer to the moon, stars or the sun with the power of telescopes. Spend a romantic evening under the Milky Way… The moon…

Wild life, tracks and nature

Wild life, tracks and nature n the company of a mid-mountain leader, a specialist in the region, discover the wildlife. Do you know what marmots eat? Why did we used to hunt alpine ibex? Listen to the deer’s song of love through its bell… On the grass or snow, guess which animal has been there……

Decoupage and tradition

Decoupage and tradition The art of cutting, originally from China, is a basic popular art in everyday life. In Switzerland, the cut-out paper forms is part of a very lively tradition, especially in the Pays d’Enhaut.. We give you the chance to be introduced to this art. Use your imagination, with scissors, cut out the…