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Valais
Valais Travel Guide
This is the valley (valais) of the mighty Rhône, a river born in the heights above Gletsch (Glacier), channeled into a broad westward stream between the Bernese and the Valais Alps, lost in the depths of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva), and then diverted into France, where it ultimately dissolves in the marshes of the Camargue. Its broad upper valley forms a region of Switzerland that is still wild, remote, beautiful, and slightly unruly, its mazots (barns balanced on stone columns to keep mice out of winter food stores) romantically tumbledown, its highest slopes peopled by nimble farmers who live at vertiginous angles.
Photo: "N.A., Switzerland/Shutterstock"
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