Cinquième itinéraire - Swiss Historic Hotels

Time Travel V
From Kandersteg to Chéserex
Travel information – Literature – Links
Day one:
traveling to Kandersteg
Day four:
Zermatt–St-Luc
Day seven:
Arolla–Les Diablerets
By train
By train
Zermatt–Visp
By bus
Arolla–Les Haudères–Sion
By train
Visp–Sierre/Siders
By train
Sion–Bex (transfer)–Villars-sur-Ollon
By bus
Sierre post office/train station–Vissoie post office–
St-Luc Bella Tola
By bus
Villars-sur-Ollon train station–Col de la Croix–Les Diablerets
[12.162, from 2nd week in June to mid-September]
From Bern or Brig to Kandersteg (old Lötschberg line)
Landgasthof Ruedihus
Hinder de Büele, 3718 Kandersteg, tel. 033 675 81 82,
[email protected], www.ruedihus.ch
Owners and hosts: Anne and René Maeder
Grand Hôtel Bella Tola & St-Luc ****
On foot
Les Diablerets–Vers-L’Eglise (local museum), 30 min.,
then up to the Hôtel du Pillon, 15 min. [272T]
Kandersteg Tourismus, Hauptstrasse, 3718 Kandersteg, tel. 033 675 80 80,
[email protected], www.kandersteg.ch
St-Luc, 3961 St-Luc, tel. 027 475 14 44,
[email protected], www.hotel-bellatola.ch
Owners and hosts: Anne-Françoise and Claude Buchs-Favre
Option
Day two:
Kandersteg–Binn
Office du Tourisme de St-Luc, 3961 St-Luc, tel. 027 476 17 10,
[email protected], www.saint-luc.ch
Hôtel du Pillon ***
Combination ticket Kandersteg–Leukerbad available in summer and winter:
By bus
Ruedihus–valley cable car station; or on foot in 15 min.
By cable car Valley station–Sunnbüel [2412]
On foot
Sunnbüel–Berghotel Schwarenbach–Gemmi Pass, 2 h 30
[map 263T]
By bus
St-Luc post office–Vissoie post office–Sierre post office/
train station
By funicular
railway
Sierre/Siders SMC–Montana train station
By bus
(or on foot) Montana train station–Crans Pavillon
By cable car
Gemmi Pass–Leukerbad [2240]; option: on foot in 2 h 15
By bus
Leukerbad–Leuk
By train
Leuk–Brig (transfer)–Fiesch
By bus
Fiesch–Binn
Option
By train Day five:
St-Luc–Crans-Montana
Kandersteg–Brig (transfer)–Fiesch
Hotel Ofenhorn *
Uf em Acher, 3996 Binn, tel. 027 971 45 45,
[email protected], www.ofenhorn.ch and www.binnkultur.ch
(cultural program over Christmas/New Year’s)
Hosts: Jacqueline Rossé Berchtold and Hanspeter Berchtold
Binntal Tourismus, 3996 Binn, tel. 027 971 45 47, [email protected],
www.binn.ch and www.landschaftspark-binntal.ch
Day two
Genossenschaft Pro Binntal: 125 Jahre Hotel Ofenhorn Binn – seit 1883.
Binn 2008.
Maupassant, Guy: Das Gasthaus. Eine tragische, furchterregende Geschichte,
die sich in Schwarenbach, in der Nähe des Gemmipasses ob Leukerbad,
­ereignet. Leukerbad 1993 (also available in the original French or online
in English, “The Inn”).
Day three
Hofstetter, Willy: Matterhorn Museum Zermatlantis. Zermatt 2008.
Schumacher, Beatrice: “Die Eroberung von Zermatt”. In: Engagiert unterwegs. 100 Jahre Naturfreunde Schweiz 1905–2005. Baden 2005.
Seiler, Mark Andreas: Ein Gletscher, ein Hotel, eine Familie. Horizonte einer
Walliser Hoteliersdynastie. Visp 2011.
By train
Les Diablerets–Aigle–Villeneuve
On foot
Villeneuve–Château de Chillon, 30 min.
Day four
From Sierre with the SMC bus to Crans Pavillon [12.421]
On foot
Château de Chillon–Veytaux Pension Masson, 15 min.
Hotel Bella Lui ***
Option
Edouard Vallet. Exhibition catalog. Martigny 2006.
By bus from Villeneuve train station via Château de Chillon to Veytaux
­Bonivard [10.201]
Day five
Option
route du Zotzet 8, 3963 Crans-Montana, tel. 027 481 31 14,
[email protected], www.bellalui.ch
Host: Rahel Isenschmied
Crans-Montana Tourisme, av. de la Gare 20, 3963 Crans-Montana,
tel. 027 485 04 04, [email protected], www.crans-montana.ch
Day six:
Crans-Montana–Arolla
Crans Pavillon–Chermignon Diogne [Martelles school, 12.421]
On foot
Bus stop Martelles school–St-Léonard, 2 h 30 [map 273T]
On foot
Binn–old road–Steinmatten, 1 h 15 [map 265T]
By train
St-Léonard–Sion
By bus
(Binn–)Steinmatten–Fiesch
By bus
Sion–Les Haudères–Arolla [12.382]
By train
Fiesch–Brig–Zermatt
Grand Hôtel & Kurhaus ***
Zermatt Tourismus, Bahnhofplatz 5, 3920 Zermatt, tel. 027 966 81 00,
[email protected], www.zermatt.ch
Diablerets-Tourisme, rue de la Gare, 1865 Les Diablerets, tel. 024 492 00 10,
[email protected], www.diablerets.ch
Wolf, Ferdinand Otto: Wallis und Chamonix. 2 volumes. Zurich 1889.
Twain, Mark: Climbing the Riffelberg. German translation. Langnau a. A.
1982. In English: A Tramp Abroad, Chapter XXXVII, 1880.
By bus
Bahnhofstrasse 80, 3920 Zermatt, tel. 027 966 03 33,
[email protected], www.monterosazermatt.ch
Host: André Seiler
chemin des Bovets 16, 1865 Les Diablerets, tel. 024 492 22 09,
[email protected], www.hoteldupillon.ch
Owner and host: Francis Barlier
Ganz, Michael T., Dominique Strebel: Dies Land ist masslos und ist sanft.
­Literarische Wanderungen im Wallis. Zurich 2006.
Day eight:
Les Diablerets–Montreux-Veytaux
Day three:
Binn–Zermatt
Hotel Monte Rosa ****
From Sion by train via Aigle to Les Diablerets
Literature and links
Hôtel Masson ***
rue Bonivard 5, 1820 Montreux-Veytaux, tel. 021 966 00 44,
[email protected], www.hotelmasson.ch
Owner and host: Anne-Marie Sèvegrand-Jaquier
Montreux-Vevey Tourisme, place de l’Eurovision, 1820 Montreux,
tel. 0848 868 484, [email protected], www.montreuxriviera.com
Day nine:
Montreux-Veytaux–Chéserex
On foot
to the boat landing of Territet (20 min.) or Montreux
(45 min.)
route de la Forêt 6, 1986 Arolla, tel. 027 283 70 00,
[email protected], www.hotel-kurhaus.arolla.com
Owners and hosts: Marie-Claude and Peter Weatherill
By boat Montreux CGN–Lausanne Ouchy [3150, www.cgn.ch]
Metro
Lausanne Ouchy–Lausanne train station, 4 min.
By train
Lausanne–Nyon
Evolène-Région Tourisme, place du Clos Lombard 6, 1983 Evolène,
tel. 027 283 40 00, [email protected], www.evolene-region.ch
By bus
Nyon train station–Chéserex post office [Bus 815, in the
­direction of Gingins]
On foot
Chéserex–Bonmont 45 min. [map 260T]
Hôtel Château de Bonmont ****
Bonmont, 1275 Chéserex, tel. 022 369 99 60,
[email protected], www.bonmont.com
Host: Philippe von Escher
150 ans d’hospitalité alpestre. St-Luc 2009 (richly illustrated publication
in honor of the Bella Tola’s 150 th birthday).
Heer, Jakob Christoph: An heiligen Wassern. Roman. Stuttgart 1898
(current edition Paderborn 2011). Moderately priced offers at www.zvab.com
Day seven
Favre, Bernard: Frédéric Rouge. Un peintre hors du temps. Lausanne 2011.
See also www.frederic-rouge-peintre.ch
Day eight
Lüthi-Graf, Evelyne, Anne-Marie Sèvegrand-Jaquier: Hôtel Pension Masson.
180 ans. Veytaux-Chillon 2009.
Osenbrüggen, Eduard: Wanderstudien aus der Schweiz. Volume six.
Basel 1881.
Day nine
Bucher, François: Notre-Dame de Bonmont und die ersten Zisterzienser­
abteien der Schweiz. Bern 1957.
Shelley, Mary, Percy Shelley: History of a six weeks’ tour through a part of
France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland. With letters descriptive of a sail
round the lake of Geneva, and of the glaciers of Chamouni. Women’s Travel
Writing 1750–1850 Volume III. London 2006 (original edition 1817).
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,
1818. Also available in a new German translation by Alexander Pechmann.
­Düsseldorf 2006.
Nyon Région Tourisme, av. Viollier 8, 1260 Nyon, tel. 022 365 66 00,
[email protected], www.nyon-tourisme.ch
For general travel tips (schedules, tickets, hiking maps, etc.), see the Appendix, p. 225 ff.,
as well as cross-references under Literature and links.
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