Hey guys! There have already been some great guesses for round two of What Am I Stitching. I’ll move on to round three soon, but in the meantime click the link if you still want to guess. For now, I’m going to tell you about a hike we went on in May. Yes, I’m slightly behind with my travel blogging…
We hadn’t been hiking for a while and we decided that May would be a good time to do it, before it got too hot (although the summer has also been mostly chilly so far, with the odd very hot day!). I got online – I like to use http://wanderungen.ch/ – and found a promising looking hike that wasn’t too far away, a discovery trail from Sommerau, along a small stream to a waterfall, then up the hill to a viewing tower on top of the Wisenberg mountain. From Basel SBB, we took the train, changed once in Sissach and arrived in Sommerau at 10:17 a.m.
We walked along the little stream – called Chrindelbach – for about half an hour before reaching the Giessen waterfall; an appropriate name as giessen means “to pour”. The 18 km high waterfall marks the end of the valley – from there, it’s all uphill!
After the waterfall, the route leads out of the woods for a short while, past farms and fields of dandelions. One farm had set up a little refreshment stand with a coffee machine and some other drinks. So cute!
After the dandelions, the path led back into the woods for a short distance, and in the middle of the trees we found the Wisenberg viewing tower. At around 25m tall, the top of viewing platform provides an amazing view over the trees. You can even see the Alps! (Although they were hard to capture with my camera. I did my best!).
Back down from the tower, we left the woods again and walked past another farm. This next photo is the most Swiss thing ever…. green field, cows, Alps. All that’s missing is a bar of chocolate 😉
From there, we hiked past more farms, pretty flowers, lots of green and a few more animals until we reached Läufelfingen train station, where we had a beer (which I didn’t photograph) before taking the train back to Basel. Here are some photos from the last stage of our hike:
Now the tourist information part: the total hiking time was roughly 3 hours and 40 minutes. We took just over 4 hours from start to finish, including all the photo stops. You can also take a bus to Wisen and walk up to the tower from there, which will take about an hour.
This was my May 2016 trip for Take 12 Trips 2016.
Confuzzledom 
Eine Pusteblume 🙂
I love them! 😀
Beautiful pictures, looks like it was the perfect weather for a hike. I’m craving Swiss chocolate now!
It was amazing weather. Not too hot 🙂
And that’s without me even showing a picture of the chocolate… 😉
Look at that gorgeous weather! It’s so awesome when you can find things like this not too far from home. It always feels more satisfying to me, to know that I don’t have to go too far to find a great day out.
I love hiking and this looks like a really great spot for it!
Not to tell you what to do or anything, but uh, more hikes please. I like this side of Switzerland!
I actually have more hikes posts to come, but I’m about 3 months behind with travel blogging!
I want to do more hikes in Switzerland next year and I was wondering where to find ideas, wanderungen.ch seems to be full of them. Thanks for sharing!
There are a lot on there. The descriptions on some are better than others though. A good one we have done was from Sissach to Liestal (look for Sissacher Flüh on the site).